58 incidents documented
South Africa vs West Indies
28 October 2021
Quinton de Kock withdrew from South Africa's T20 World Cup match against the West Indies after Cricket South Africa mandated players take a knee before matches.
ICC vs Bowlers Worldwide
2020-07-08
The ICC's temporary COVID-era ban on using saliva to shine the cricket ball became permanent in 2022, eliminating a century-old ball-maintenance practice and permanently disadvantaging bowlers — a decision that continues to divide the sport.
West Indies vs Australia
2019-07-03
Jason Holder's innovative around-the-wicket plan against Steve Smith — bowling into the rough outside leg stump — provided one of the 2019 series' most sophisticated bowling strategies against cricket's most technically gifted batsman, forcing Smith into specific defensive decisions he found unfamiliar.
West Indies vs England
2016-04-03
After Carlos Brathwaite hit four sixes to win the T20 World Cup Final, Marlon Samuels celebrated by draping himself in a blanket-like flag and sitting in a chair with his feet up.
West Indies / Various IPL
2016-04-03
Dwayne Bravo released a calypso song called 'Champion' and performed the dance after every wicket, making it one of cricket's most infectious and entertaining celebrations.
West Indies vs England
2016-04-03
West Indies needed 19 off the last over. Carlos Brathwaite hit Ben Stokes for four consecutive sixes to win the 2016 ICC T20 World Cup — the greatest single-over comeback in World Cup history.
South Africa vs West Indies
2015-01-18
AB de Villiers made 149 off 44 balls against West Indies — reaching his century off just 31 deliveries, the fastest ODI hundred in history — with 16 sixes and 9 fours in an innings that redefined what was considered humanly possible in white-ball cricket.
New Zealand vs West Indies
2015-03-21
Martin Guptill made 237 not out against West Indies in the 2015 World Cup quarter-final — the highest individual score in World Cup history and in any knockout ODI match — as New Zealand won by 143 runs to reach their first World Cup semi-final in 23 years.
West Indies / Kolkata Knight Riders
2014-2015
Sunil Narine's bowling action was reported multiple times, leading to suspensions and modifications to his action that significantly impacted his international career.
Australia vs West Indies
1 February 2014
Mitchell Starc threw the ball at Kieron Pollard in frustration after Pollard obstructed him during a run, leading to an ugly exchange.
West Indies (internal)
1 June 2014
The West Indies cricket team abandoned their tour of India in 2014 over a pay dispute with the WICB, highlighting decades of conflict between the board and its players that contributed to West Indian cricket's decline.
West Indies / KKR
1 November 2014
West Indian spinner Sunil Narine was reported for a suspect bowling action multiple times across various tournaments, highlighting the ongoing challenges of policing bowling actions in modern cricket.
West Indies U19
15 February 2014
A group of West Indies U19 players staged a walkout during a regional youth tournament, protesting poor accommodation, inadequate food, and substandard playing facilities.
India vs West Indies
2013-11-16
Sachin Tendulkar played his 200th and final Test at his home ground, Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, retiring after 24 years of international cricket — the longest such career in history. His retirement speech, delivered in the middle of Wankhede, moved a nation to tears.
West Indies vs Australia
2012
Kieron Pollard was given out hit wicket in a controversial decision where it was unclear whether his bat or body dislodged the bails.
West Indies
15 May 2008
West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels was banned for two years by the ICC for providing information to a bookmaker during a series against India in 2007.
West Indies vs England
2004-04-12
Brian Lara batted for 778 minutes to score 400 not out against England in Antigua — reclaiming the world record he had lost to Matthew Hayden and setting a mark that has never been approached since.
West Indies vs Australia
25 April 2003
McGrath sledged Sarwan about his personal life. Sarwan reportedly responded with a comment about McGrath's wife Jane, who was battling cancer at the time.
Pakistan vs West Indies
February 2000
Shoaib Akhtar clocked 100mph against Brian Lara in Multan 2000 — the world's fastest bowler against its best batsman. Shoaib targeted Lara with ferocious short-pitched deliveries, staring him down after each delivery. Lara responded by hooking and pulling fearlessly. Their duel was one of cricket's most theatrical of the era.
West Indies vs England
2000-04-18
Curtly Ambrose played his final Test in Barbados in April 2000, retiring with 405 wickets at 20.99 — the end of an era that had seen West Indies produce the finest fast bowlers in cricket's history across 25 consecutive years.
Australia vs West Indies
1999-06-17
Glenn McGrath's obsessive determination to claim Brian Lara's wicket in the 1999 World Cup semi-final — and his famous statement that he would get Lara for a duck — defined a great rivalry between cricket's supreme fast bowler and its most gifted batsman.
West Indies vs Australia
1999-03-29
Brian Lara and Jimmy Adams were involved in one of cricket's most comically bad run-out mix-ups, with both batsmen ending up at the same end while the fielders watched in amusement.
India vs West Indies
1996-03-09
Curtly Ambrose's short-pitched assault on Sachin Tendulkar during the 1996 World Cup quarter-final — targeting the world's best batsman with rising deliveries at his throat — produced a masterclass of fast bowling pressure that Tendulkar resisted before eventually being dismissed.
West Indies vs Australia
28 April 1995
Curtly Ambrose got in Steve Waugh's face after being told to go back to his mark. Richie Richardson had to pull Ambrose away. Ambrose then bowled a devastating spell.
West Indies vs Australia
21 April 1995
Curtly Ambrose got face-to-face with Steve Waugh during the 1995 Trinidad Test after Waugh told him to 'get back to the f***ing crease.' Ambrose had to be physically restrained by WI captain Richie Richardson. Ambrose channelled his fury into taking 7/25 — one of the greatest hostile fast-bowling spells in Test history.
West Indies vs India
November 1994
Through the early-to-mid 1990s, before neutral umpires became mandatory, home umpires in India consistently turned down LBW appeals against Indian batsmen. Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh were repeatedly denied. The era became a key argument for neutral umpires.
India vs West Indies
October 1994
Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh were repeatedly denied plumb LBW appeals by Indian home umpires throughout West Indies' 1994 tour of India. The era of home umpire bias was at its height before neutral umpires became mandatory in 2002.
West Indies vs England
1994-02-25
Curtly Ambrose's devastating 6/24 in 10 overs at Port-of-Spain 1994 — including dismissing Graham Gooch, the backbone of England's batting — produced one of the great fast bowling spells that left England all out for 46, their lowest total in modern times.
India vs West Indies
1994-11-05
Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose's sustained pace assault on the young Sachin Tendulkar in the 1994 series — targeting him with bouncers and lifting deliveries from perfect lengths — tested Tendulkar at a formative stage of his career with one of history's great pace combinations.
West Indies vs England
1994-04-01
Curtly Ambrose produced one of cricket's most sustained bowling spells — taking 7 English wickets for just 1 run in 32 balls, reducing England from 40/1 to 46 all out as he became virtually unplayable on a lively Queen's Park Oval pitch.
West Indies vs England
18 November 1993
Curtly Ambrose refused to remove his white wristbands when asked by the umpire, leading to a standoff that required captain Richie Richardson's intervention.
West Indies vs Pakistan
1993-04-16
Waqar Younis's relentless inswinging yorker campaign against Brian Lara during Pakistan's 1993 West Indies tour — targeting the left-hander's front foot with full-pitched deliveries that swung late — produced one of cricket's most technically demanding bowler-batsman duels.
Pakistan vs West Indies
1988-04-02
Imran Khan and Viv Richards — two captains who embodied their nations' cricketing cultures — locked horns across multiple contests in the late 1980s with Imran using reverse swing and intelligent variation against Richards's supreme attacking instincts.
West Indies vs Pakistan
1987-11-01
Courtney Walsh refused to run out Pakistan's non-striker Saleem Jaffar who was backing up too far, costing West Indies a World Cup spot in one of cricket's greatest acts of sportsmanship.
West Indies vs New Zealand
1986-02-21
Richard Hadlee's intelligent use of swing, seam, and variation against Viv Richards — who dominated every other bowler on earth — produced one of cricket's most compelling bowler-batsman contests: craft against raw genius.
England vs West Indies
1986-07-03
After Greg Thomas told Viv Richards he'd missed the ball, Richards smashed the next delivery out of the ground and told Thomas to go find it.
England vs West Indies
2 August 1984
Malcolm Marshall broke Mike Gatting's nose with a sharply rising bouncer at Headingley in 1984 — while bowling with a broken thumb in a plaster cast. Blood poured from Gatting's shattered nose as he retired hurt. Marshall refused to leave the field and came back to take wickets. One of Test cricket's most viscerally brutal moments.
England vs West Indies
1984-06-14
Michael Holding's specific assault on Ian Botham during West Indies' famous 'Blackwash' series in 1984 — where England lost all five Tests — showed how Botham's attacking instincts, normally devastating, became a liability against sustained express pace.
England vs West Indies
1984-08-14
West Indies whitewashed England 5-0 in the 1984 series — the first time England had ever been beaten 5-0 in a home series — through the most dominant fast bowling combination ever assembled: Marshall, Holding, Garner, and Baptiste.
India vs West Indies
1983-06-25
Kapil Dev's stunning running catch to dismiss Viv Richards in the 1983 World Cup Final at Lord's — off the bowling of Madan Lal — was the moment that turned cricket history, removing West Indies' most dangerous batsman and enabling India's improbable victory.
India vs West Indies
1983-06-25
India, 175-run underdogs, bowled out West Indies for 140 to win the 1983 World Cup at Lord's — a victory that transformed cricket's global landscape, made India the sport's financial superpower, and inspired a generation of cricketers.
South Africa vs England/Sri Lanka/West Indies/Australia rebel XIs
6 March 1982
Multiple international teams sent unofficial rebel squads to play in apartheid-era South Africa, leading to lengthy bans for participating players and deepening cricket's political fault lines.
West Indies vs England
1981-03-13
Michael Holding's five-ball over at Bridgetown in 1981 — three deliveries hitting the stumps or missing fractionally, then a perfect yorker — became the most celebrated over in Test history, reducing master technician Geoff Boycott to helplessness.
West Indies vs England
1981-02-27
Joel Garner's extraordinary 6ft 8 height — generating deliveries that rose from a good length to above shoulder height — made even the technically masterful Geoff Boycott look helpless, as balls the defensive Yorkshireman could normally leave safely became impossible to ignore.
New Zealand vs West Indies
12 February 1980
Michael Holding kicked the stumps out of the ground in frustration after an LBW appeal was turned down against John Parker.
England vs West Indies
1980-06-05
Bob Willis's sustained fast bowling at Viv Richards throughout the 1980 Test series in England — where Richards scored with imperious power against everything Willis delivered — produced one of the era's clearest demonstrations of batting genius overcoming England's best pace attack.
West Indies vs England
1979-06-23
Viv Richards made 138 not out — the highest score in a World Cup final until 2003 — as West Indies defended their 1975 title by beating England at Lord's in a match that confirmed West Indian dominance of world cricket.
England vs West Indies
3 June 1976
Tony Greig infamously said he intended to make the West Indies 'grovel,' a comment with racial undertones that provoked an incredible West Indian response.
England vs West Indies
1976-06-03
Andy Roberts's ferocious response to Tony Greig's 'grovel' statement — combined with Viv Richards's batting dominance — turned the 1976 England-West Indies series into an emphatic West Indian statement about the cost of underestimating them.
England vs West Indies
1976-07-22
45-year-old Brian Close, recalled to face West Indies' pace onslaught, took blow after blow from Michael Holding, Andy Roberts, and Wayne Daniel at Old Trafford without complaint — walking toward the ball, refusing to take evasive action, in one of cricket's most extreme acts of physical courage.
West Indies vs England
1976-08-12
West Indies' 1976 tour of England introduced the most feared fast bowling quartet in cricket history — Holding, Roberts, Daniel, and Holder — as they beat England 3-0 in a series defined by pace, aggression, and the emergence of Viv Richards as the world's best batsman.
Australia vs West Indies
December 1975
Dennis Lillee targeted Viv Richards with relentless short-pitched bowling in the 1975-76 series, attempting to intimidate the young West Indian. Richards refused to flinch, absorbing every bouncer and hitting Lillee for boundaries. Their duel defined the series and shaped Richards' fearless batting identity.
West Indies vs Australia
1975-06-21
Clive Lloyd made 102 off 85 balls in the very first World Cup final at Lord's in 1975, leading West Indies to a 17-run victory over Australia in a match that ran until 8:43pm under floodlights — and established the World Cup as a viable global cricket competition.
West Indies vs various
1975-06-01
Clive Lloyd captained West Indies from 1974 to 1985 — 18 Tests unbeaten between 1980 and 1984, two World Cup wins, and the creation of the four-pace-bowler strategy that dominated Test cricket for a decade and permanently changed how cricket is played.
England vs West Indies
1963-06-06
Fred Trueman and Garfield Sobers's encounters in the 1963 England-West Indies series — the former England's fastest bowler of his era, the latter cricket's greatest all-rounder — produced battles between two of sport's most charismatic and competitive personalities.
Australia vs West Indies
1960-12-14
The first tied Test in 86 years of cricket history — Australia and West Indies finished level on 737 runs each after five days of breathless cricket in Brisbane, producing one of the most dramatic finishes the game has ever seen.
West Indies vs Pakistan
1958-02-27
Garfield Sobers, 21 years old, batted for 614 minutes to score 365 not out against Pakistan — breaking Len Hutton's 20-year-old world record of 364 and becoming the most prolific single innings in Test history for 36 years.
Pakistan vs West Indies
1958-01-24
Hanif Mohammad batted for 970 minutes — over 16 hours — to score 337 against West Indies, saving Pakistan from an innings defeat. It remains the longest innings in Test history, an act of sustained concentration that lasted over 16 hours.