CaribbeanCricket.com - <b>HEADLINE: “WEST INDIES ALL-TIME MEN’S TEST TEAM

CaribbeanCricket.com 9/8/25 3:12 PM

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Selecting just one wicket-keeper for MY All West Indies Test XI, with six players already included – Joel Garner, Sir Curty Ambrose, late Malcolm Marshall, Sir Wes Hall, Lancelot Gibbs, Sir Gary Sobers – is probably the hardest, most contentious decision ever, even with great battersalso vying for thoselast four positions. The batsmen would be relatively easier.

In no order or merit, the following had been Test wicket-keepers for WI since 1928, when WI started playing Tests. Some named might even have been forgotten altogether already.

(1) Karl Nunes (Jamaica), (2) Errol Hunte (Trinidad & Tobago), (3) Desmond Lewis (Jamaica), (4) Cyril Christiani (Guyana), (5) Derrick Sealey (Barbados), (6) Franz “Jerry”Alexander (Jamaica), (7) Simpson Guillen (Trinidad & Tobago / WI & Canterbury / NZ), ( cool Junior Murray (Grenada / Windward Islands), (9) Ivan Barrow (Jamaica).

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Jumpstart 9/8/25 3:15 PM

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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Barbados’ Courtney Browne; Test debut; gained infamy when he dropped Australia’s captain Steve Waugh, WI v AUS, Sabina Park, 4th Test, April 1995, off LI’s Kenny Benjamin’s bowling.

Waugh was then on 42. He made 200 and laid the foundation for Australia to beat WI in that Test;and that series; thus wresting unofficial ICC World Test Championship from West Indies.

imusic 9/8/25 3:21 PM

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Croft made this statement

Guyana’s Rohan Kanhai; 79 Tests, 6227 runs, excellent avg. 47.53;only kept wickets in his first three Tests.His batting was brilliant, but only three Tests as ‘keeper?Is that enough?

And then proceeds to conclude....

Denesh Ramdin, late Sir Clyde Walcott, Jeffrey Dujon, Deryck Murray, Jackie Hendricks, Ridley Jacobs, Rohan Kanhai and late Franz Allexander; “The Elite Eight”; are your final choices.

HTF does Rohan Kanhai make it to an elite 8 of WI wicketkeepers when a whopping 3% of his test matches played were played as him as a keeper?

Ah mean.....homeboyism and hero worship is one thing. But this????

Makes a mockery of his entire article.

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analyst-kid 9/8/25 4:02 PM

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Barbados best ever wkpr was DAVID MURRAY

Trinidad best ever wkpr between DERYCK MURRAY AND DAVID WILLIAMS imo....I dont know of ERROL HUNTE....has to be wayyyy before my time.

Junior Murray superior to Michael Findlay?

Usually all time WI teams pick either Clyde Walcott or Dujon because of their superior batsmanship.

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openning 9/8/25 4:19 PM

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In reply to analyst-kid

Usually all time WI teams pick either Clyde Walcott or Dujon because of their superior batsmanship.

Nothing else needed to be said.
Rohan was a great West Indies batsman; he could not be considered a great Guyana Wicketkeeper because of his productivity as a specialist wicketkeeper.

Jumpstart 9/8/25 4:22 PM

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In reply to analyst-kid

Trinidad best ever wkpr between DERYCK MURRAY AND DAVID WILLIAMS imo....I dont know of ERROL HUNTE....has to be wayyyy before my time.

williams was as good a keeper as denesh ramdin but ramdin was a much better batsman, which is why i give him the edge, but as a keeper, williams was phenomenal

Jumpstart 9/8/25 4:25 PM

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In reply to openning

murray was probably the best wk of the 80s among all teams. i believe dujon once said that murray would glide into position whereas he'd have to dive.

imusic 9/8/25 4:34 PM

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In reply to Jumpstart

David Murray was unfaired by WI cricket

Maybe because of his locks

Maybe because he allegedly smoked weed

But as a keeper……there haven’t been any better in my time. He wasn’t bad with the bat either.

Then he went on the rebel tour and that was that for him.

Brerzerk 9/8/25 4:50 PM

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The whole premise of having 5 fast-bowlers and a spinner as sure picks (even if one of those fast men is a supreme allrounder) ensures an unbalanced XI no?
Hunte
Greenidge/Rae/Haynes/BABU/Crampy
Headley/Prince/Weekes
Viv,Viv, Viv/Worrel
The Greatest
WALCOTT/Duj
Macko
Big Bud
Ambi
Sir Wes
Lancelot Richard
Das one Rass of a tail bit there's no one who could shepherd a tail bettervthan the Greatest. Duj was good at that too but with so few batsmen Walcott gets the pick

openning 9/8/25 4:51 PM

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In reply to Jumpstart

I met David as a youth, and we attended the first coaching clinic conducted by Foffie Williams.
In my last game in Barbados, I kept wicket while David bowled.
Dujon played with the best team in the history of West Indies cricket. He kept Wickets to the bowlers that the team had at the time.
I was one of the people who devalue his keeping, but I have learned to appreciate eras and what each player brought o the game.

imusic 9/8/25 4:53 PM

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In reply to Brerzerk

Hunte
Greenidge/Rae/Haynes/BABU/Crampy
Headley/Prince/Weekes
Viv,Viv, Viv/Worrel
The Greatest
WALCOTT/Duj
Macko
Big Bud
Ambi
Sir Wes
Lancelot Richard

Damn! U leff out Sobers???

Harsh IMO

Jumpstart 9/8/25 4:56 PM

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In reply to Brerzerk

don't need a spinner when you have the fire power the WI had. if a spinner managed to be better than any of the world class pacemen we produced, then fine, but i am certainly not picking a spinner based on that balanced attack rubbish. maco, imran, waqar, wasim and glenn mcgrath proved quick bowlers with the right skills could be successful on the subcontinent and on wickets that don't favor pace bowling

openning 9/8/25 5:03 PM

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In reply to Jumpstart

There is no way I will select an all-time team and not have Lance Gibbs for the West Indies or Shane Warne for Australia.

Jumpstart 9/8/25 5:11 PM

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In reply to openning

i would....if we are playing in chennai or multan, my attack would be holding, roberts, maco, walsh(from 96-2000). if it was a world xi.....i'd put roberts, maco, mcgrath/imran and wasim. warne's record in india is poor

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Brerzerk 9/8/25 5:18 PM

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In reply to imusic

Sobers is "The Greatest" batting at 5!
I am showing that picking 5 pacers including Sobers plus Gibbs for a total of 6 bowlers unbalances the team.
The West Indies did not "unfair Murray".Dujon debuted as a #7 batsman with Murray at 8. By the 2nd or 3rd test Murray and Croft exited the team to join "The Rebels" in SA. Duj took the globlves and the rest is history. Until the 90's no "rebel" was forgiven and only one was able to make thevteam by then. Murray grew Locks years after the rebel tour

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