List of Wisden Trophy records

Michael Vaughan has the highest win ratio out of any captain in the Wisden Trophy winning 10 of his 11 Tests as captain.

This is a list of Wisden Trophy Test cricket series played between England and West Indies which dates back to 1963. It was usually played alternately in England and West Indies, although early series were predominantly played in England. "The Wisden Trophy" series varied between three and six Tests.

In the series' 57-year history, the trophy changed hands on seven occasions (1968, 1973, 2000, 2009 (twice), 2019 and 2020). The West Indies won the first Wisden Trophy in 1963 and held the cup until 1968. England then held the trophy for a brief period between 1968 and 1973. After the 1973 series the West Indies retained the trophy for 27 years.^[1] This included a 16-year period (1974–1990) where the West Indies did not lose a Test. The new millennium proved to be the turning point in the series as England won the 2000 Wisden Trophy 3–1 to regain the trophy after West Indies went 1–0 up. They have been largely successful against the West Indies at test-level since then, with the latter only being successful in two series since; in 2009 and 2019. To put the recent dominance by England into perspective, since the Millennium, West Indies have won only 7 Tests, to England's 23, and that was after the West Indies won the very first Test of the new Millennium at Edgbaston in 2000.

The last Wisden Trophy series took place in England in 2020 and consisted of three Test matches.^[2] The Wisden Trophy will be replaced by the Richards–Botham Trophy, named in honour of Viv Richards and Ian Botham, for future series.^[3] Overall, a total of 28 Wisden Trophy series were played, of which the West Indies won fourteen times, England won ten and there were four drawn series.

List of Test series[]

Series	Years	Host	First match	Tests	England	West Indies	Drawn	Result	Holder	Ref
1	1963	England	6 June 1963	5	1	3	1	West Indies	West Indies	[4]
2	1966	England	2 June 1966	5	1	3	1	West Indies		[5]

Totals up to and including the third Test of the 2020 series in England.^[6][7]

Series	Season	Host	Tests	England	West Indies	Draw	Series result	Holder at the end of the series	Notes
3	1967–68	West Indies	5	1	0	4	England	England
4	1969	England	3	2	0	1
5	1973	England	3	0	2	1	West Indies	West Indies
6	1973–74	West Indies	5	1	1	3	Drawn
7	1976	England	5	0	3	2	West Indies
8	1980	England	5	0	1	4	West Indies
9	1980–81	West Indies	4	0	2	2	West Indies		Second Test was abandoned due to the Guyanese Government revoking Robin Jackman's visa.
10	1984	England	5	0	5	0	West Indies
11	1985–86	West Indies	5	0	5	0	West Indies
12	1988	England	5	0	4	1	West Indies
13	1989–90	West Indies	4	1	2	1	West Indies
14	1991	England	5	2	2	1	Drawn
15	1993–94	West Indies	5	1	3	1	West Indies
16	1995	England	6	2	2	2	Drawn
17	1997–98	West Indies	6	1	3	2	West Indies		First Test was abandoned after the field of play was deemed to be too dangerous due to the highly irregular bounce of the pitch.
18	2000	England	5	3	1	1	England	England
19	2003–04	West Indies	4	3	0	1	England
20	2004	England	4	4	0	0	England
21	2007	England	4	3	0	1	England
22	2009	West Indies	5	0	1	4	West Indies	West Indies	Second Test was abandoned after 10 balls due to a dangerous outfield.
23	2009	England	2	2	0	0	England	England
24	2012	England	3	2	0	1	England
25	2015	West Indies	3	1	1	1	Drawn
26	2017	England	3	2	1	0	England		First Test was the first Day/night Test match played in England.
27	2018–19	West Indies	3	1	2	0	West Indies	West Indies
28	2020	England	3	2	1	0	England	England	All 3 tests were played in a bio-secure environment with no spectators due to the global Covid-19 pandemic.
Total	–	–	120	36	48	36	–	–	–

Summary of results[]

List of captains[]

The table below is a list of cricket captains for each team in the Wisden Trophy. The list is in chronological order of appearance.

Wisden Trophy records[]

Team records[]

Higher innings totals were scored outside The Wisden Trophy era. In the 1930 timeless Test England scored 849 on their first innings at Sabina Park.^[10] Other high scores include West Indies 681/8 declaration in 1954 at the Queen's Park Oval.^[11]

Batting records[]

Brian Lara is the record holder in the Wisden Trophy for most runs with 2983 runs. Garry Sobers did make 3214 runs against England however his first 1069 runs occurred before the Wisden Trophy was established meaning he has only scored 2145 runs in the Wisden Trophy.^[14] Andy Sandham scored 325 runs against the West Indies in 1930 (which at the time was a world record) but this was before the inception of the Wisden Trophy and is therefore not a Wisden Record.^[15]

Most runs in series

Rank	Runs	Player	Period[16]
1	2983 (51 inns.)	Brian Lara	1994–04
2	2969 (50 inns.)	Viv Richards	1976–91
3	2392 (59 inns.)	Desmond Haynes	1980–94
4	2318 (48 inns.)	Gordon Greenidge	1976–90
5	2205 (53 inns.)	Geoffrey Boycott	1966–81

Highest individual score

Rank	High score	Player	Year[17]
1	400* (582)	Brian Lara	2004
2	375 (538)	Brian Lara	1994
3	302 (430)	Lawrence Rowe	1974
4	291 (386)	Viv Richards	1976
5	291 (452)	Ramnaresh Sarwan	2009

Other batting feats include:

• Viv Richards 56 ball century in the fifth Test of the 1985–86 series is the fastest Test century (in terms of balls faced).^[18]
• Andy Roberts scored 25 runs in one over in the first Test of the 1980–81 series. This is the fourth most runs in a single over at Test level. The over went 46266L.^[19]

Bowling records[]

Sobers took 102 wickets against England, however 18 of these wickets occurred before the Wisden Trophy was instituted and therefore meant that he only took 84 wickets in Wisden Trophy matches.^[20] Alf Valentine claimed 33 wickets (from 422.3 overs) for the West Indies in the 1950 tour against England before the Wisden Trophy was established.

Most wickets

Rank	Wickets	Player	Period[21]
1	164 (8284 balls)	Curtly Ambrose	1988–00
2	145 (8818 balls)	Courtney Walsh	1986–00
3	127 (5790 balls)	Malcolm Marshall	1980–91
4	100 (8841 balls)	Lance Gibbs	1963–74
5	96 (4486 balls)	Michael Holding	1976–86

Most wickets in series

Rank	Wickets	Player	Year[22]
1	35 (203.1 overs)	Malcolm Marshall	1988
2	34 (220.2 overs)	Courtney Walsh	2000
3	34 (236.4 overs)	Fred Trueman	1963
4	32 (223.5 overs)	Charlie Griffith	1963
5	30 (205.5 overs)	Curtly Ambrose	1997–98

Other bowling feats include:

• Dominic Cork's hat-trick in the fourth Test of the 1995 series dismissing Richie Richardson (bowled), Junior Murray (lbw) and Carl Hooper (lbw).^[23]
• Matthew Hoggard's hat-trick in the third Test of the 2003–04 series dismissing Ramnaresh Sarwan (caught), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (lbw) and Ryan Hinds (caught). The over finished 000WWW.^[24]
• Andrew Caddick's four wicket over in the fourth Test of the 2000 series. This was the sixth time this had occurred at Test level. In the over he dismissed Ridley Jacobs (lbw), Nixon McLean (bowled), Curtly Ambrose (bowled) and Reon King (bowled) and the over finished W0WW0nbW.^[25]

Captaincy records[]

John Goddard won five Test matches as captain for West Indies but this occurred between 1948 and 1957 before the Wisden Trophy was established.

Most matches played as captain

Rank	Most Test matches	Player	Period[26]
1	19	Clive Lloyd	1976–84
2	18	Viv Richards	1985–91
3	17	Michael Atherton	1993–98
4	14	Brian Lara	1997–04
5	13	Garry Sobers	1966–69

Most wins as captain

Rank	Most wins	Player	Period[26]
1	13 (from 18 matches)	Viv Richards	1985��91
2	11 (from 19 matches)	Clive Lloyd	1976–84
3	10 (from 11 matches)	Michael Vaughan	2003–07
4	5 (from 10 matches)	Richie Richardson	1993–95
5	4 (from 17 matches)	Michael Atherton	1993–98

See also[]

• Cricket statistics

References[]