Bennett King is coach of West Indies cricket team. He decided to accept the offer when Gus Logie resigned a year later. King was also a promising rugby league player for Valleys in Brisbane and was invited to join the Gold Coast Giants in the national rugby league competition.

Brian Lara is a West Indian cricketer. He is recognized as one of the world's greatest batsmen, having several times topped the Test batting rankings and being the current world record holder for the highest individual innings score and the all-time leading run scorer in Test cricket. His unbeatable 400 not out made him the second player after Don Bradman to score two Test triple-centuries, and the second after Bill Ponsford to score two first-class quadruple-centuries.

Ramnaresh Sarwan is a Right-handed batsman in West Indies cricket team. On his first tour, to England in 2000, Sarwan lived up to the hype by topping the averages. A dream series against South Africa in 2003-04, where he averaged nearly a 100 runs a Test, was followed by a lean run against England. He played a big hand in tournaments, and carried on his good form in Australia.

Denesh Ramdin is a wicketkeeper-batsman of West Indies cricket team. Originally a fast bowler who then kept when he had finished his stint with the ball, at 13 he decided early to concentrate on keeping, honing his reflexes and working on his agility. He impressed one and all, with his work behind and in front of the stumps.

Devon Smith is an aggressive left-handed opening batsman of West Indies cricket team. He was planned into the West Indies team for the Test series against India in March 2002. In his first Test, against Australia, Smith scored a blazing 62 in a losing cause, but failed to score in the next Test. A good eye compensates for Smith's lack of footwork, and though he has enjoyed success at home, his ability to perform in different conditions remains to be seen.

Marlon Samuels is an elegant right-handed batsman in West Indies cricket team. His undistinguished offspin also claimed a couple of wickets. Samuels show a bull-headed confidence in test cricket. That confidence almost got him sent home from India late in 2002. He was kept on, and responded with his a disciplined maiden Test century, at Kolkata. He struggled with injury, and was dropped after two poor home Tests against Sri Lanka in 2003.

Richard Powell is a striker of the ball in West Indies cricket team. Powell was thrust into international cricket at the age of 20 after topping the Jamaican averages in the 1999 Busta Cup, and quickly took centre stage with an innings of 124 from 93 balls against India in Singapore. He gained a reputation as a one-day cricket player but discarded from the Test cricket.

Chanderpaul is an elegant left handed batsman in West Indies cricket team. He never seems to play in off the front foot. In the Champions Trophy he contributed to the victory to a great extent with his consistent performance. The following year he was appointed West Indian captain during a harsh contracts dispute, and celebrated with a double-century in front of his home fans in Guyana. In April 2006 he resigned as captain citing a need to focus on his batting.

Wavell Hinds is a loose-limbed left-handed batsman with fast hands and slow feet in West Indies cricket team. Hinds had only three Test caps under his belt when he incinerated Pakistan's attack at Bridgetown in 1999-2000. His scores of 165 and 52 included 33 boundaries. During the one-day series in England in 2004, he was recalled for his experience and the stability.

Corey Collymore is right-arm fast-medium bowler of West Indies cricket team. He took four wickets on his return to the one-day side in Zimbabwe in 2001, as West Indies beat India in the final of the Coca-Cola Cup, and after a moderately successful World Cup in 2003; he was recalled to the Test team for the home series against Sri Lanka.

Jermaine Lawson is a tall and rangy fast bowler in West Indies cricket team. He is capable of searing pace and high accuracy in his bowling. Lawson had come up in Test cricket during the previous winter, when, in only his third match, he picked up six wickets for three runs against Bangladesh.

Omari Banks is a leading bowler of West Indies cricket team. He made history as the first player from the tiny Leeward island of Anguilla to play Test cricket for the West Indies. He picked up three wickets in his first innings against Australia. With a high, elegant action and good control of flight, Banks possessed sufficient guile to trouble the best.

Chris Gayle is a thrusting Jamaican left-handed batsman in West Indies team; Gayle earned himself a black mark on his first senior tour - to England in 2000 - where the new boys were felt to be insufficiently respectful of their elders. But a lack of respect, for opposition bowlers at least, has served Gayle well since then. He has the ability to decimate the figures of even the thriftiest of opening bowlers. Gayle is tall and imposing at the crease, he loves to cut through the covers off either foot.

Dwayne Bravo is a bowler & all rounder in the West Indies cricket team. He made his Test debut at Lord's in July 2004, and took three wickets in the first innings with his medium-paced swingers. He also showed a cool enough temperament to forge a confident start at the crease. He scored plenty of runs and claimed a bunch of wickets in four Tests. He made his one-day debut in April 1994.

Dwayne Smith is a tall, aggressive, and powerful all rounder in West Indies cricket team. He was called up to join the West Indian Test cricket team in South Africa. Smith had been given a surprise opportunity - ahead of his Grenadian namesake Devon - when Marlon Samuels flew home with a knee injury. His batting reflects both his temperament and his youth.