important dates in the history of west indian cricket west indies under aucher warner brother of sir pelham make its first tour of england the tour of under the captaincy of sir harold austin was the first to involve matches which are deemed first class june test debut against england at lord's february west indies register their first test match victory at georgetown against england march at sydney against australia west indies register their first away test match victory june west indies defeat england by runs at lord's wi went on to win the series the highlights being the bowling of ramadhin and valentine and the batting of the three w's march garry sobers scores against pakistan at kingston setting a new record for the highest individual score in test cricket frank worrell is appointed captain of west indies the first black cricketer to get that post george headley had stood in for john goddard for two tests in worrell's west indians and richie benaud's australians play arguably the greatest test series in history the first match at brisbane ended in a tie australia won the series half a million people lined the streets of melbourne to bide farewell to the west indians clive lloyd takes over from rohan kanhai as the captain of west indies the beginning of the lloyd era which saw wi become one of the greatest teams of all time june west indies win the first cricket world cup may women's team make their test debut against australia a month later they played their first one day match june clive lloyd lifts the cricket world cup again august west indies complete a 'blackwash' of england january at sydney clive lloyd plays his last test australia win by an innings and runs to end west indies' record streak of test matches without defeat this also included a then record wins in consecutive tests april brian lara scores against england at st john's and breaks sobers' record for highest individual score in test cricket june playing for warwickshire against durham in county cricket lara scores this breaks the year old record of hanif mohammad for the highest score in first class cricket may west indies lose the final test at kingston to australia thereby losing the series this was their first defeat in a series in years west indies make their first tour of south africa they suffered a defeat in a controversy ridden series april brian lara scores against england at antigua to regain the record for the highest individual score in test cricket september brian lara lifts the icc champions trophy the s test tours west indies had their first test tour of australia in they also toured england twice during the s they played tests most of them against england winning and losing most of the test matches had ball overs but of them had ball overs the test matches played had different formats day day day timeless west indian captains most of the matches were captained by g c grant list of top west indian runscorers in the s george headley list of top west indian wickettakers of the s l n constantine the s test tours the s were affected by world war ii in west indies toured newly independent india for the first time for a test tour the tour was preceded by a non test tour of pakistan and followed by a similar short tour of ceylon west indies did not lose any of the test matches it played in this decade west indian captains most of the matches were captained by jdc goddard under whose captaincy the west indies won test matches list of top west indian runscorers in the s everton deweekes at an average of clyde walcott list of top west indian wickettakers in the s w ferguson the s test tours during the s west indies toured england and new zealand twice and australia india and pakistan once each west indies played a total of test matches in this decade winning and losing