Shivnarine 'Shiv' Chanderpaul (born 16 August 1974 in Unity Village, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana) is a cricketer, and former captain of the West Indies cricket team. He is the first Indo-Caribbean in the West Indies team to play 100 Tests for the West Indies and has captained them in 14 Tests and 16 One Day Internationals. Chanderpaul is ranked as the number one batsman in the world under the current ICC test rankings.

A West Indian cricketer of Indian origin, the left-handed Chanderpaul is known for his doggedness and ability to stick on the wicket for long hours. He is known in the cricketing world for his unorthodox front-on batting stance, although he shifts his body into a more conventional position when he plays the ball, thus making him a prolific scorer on both sides of the wicket. His stance allows him to get most of his runs behind the wicket. Chanderpaul is renowned for playing left arm spin bowlers by getting his pad outside the line of off-

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 Romel Smith (born 12 April 1983, Storey Gap, St Michael, Barbados) is a West Indies all-rounder who plays Tests and One Day Internationals. He is a hard hitting right-handed batsman and bowls right arm medium pace. An athletic fielder, he is one of the better in the West Indian side.

Smith made a run-a-ball 105 not out on Test debut against South Africa in 2003–04. His 93 ball hundred was the fastest ever by a debuant in Test cricket. It was the 3rd time that a batsman from Barbados has made a debut century, after Conrad Hunte and Gordon Greenidge. He however failed to make a half-century in his 9 Tests since, with his second-highest Test score of 42 coming against the bottom-ranked Bangladesh.

Against a the touring Bangladeshis in May 2004, Smith scored 103 not out off 70 balls in a game for the West Indies Board XI.

In one-day cricket, Smith has managed to have a strike rate of over 100 after 60 ODI games. He has two one-day half-centuries, 62

Fidel Henderson Edwards (born 6 February 1982 in Gays, St Peter, Barbados) is a West Indian cricketer and is the half brother of Pedro Collins. A pace bowler, his slingshot action greatly resembles that of former fast bowling great Jeff Thomson[citation needed]. He bowls fast, can swing the ball and get reverse swing, but insists that he doesn't go for out-and-out pace. He was spotted in the nets by Brian Lara and Edwards was called up for his Test debut against Sri Lanka after just one match for Barbados. Edwards' slingy action is similar to that of fast bowler Lasith Malinga, of Sri Lanka. For a pace bowler he is, like Malinga, unusually short.

Despite a promising start to his test career, he has been injury prone and inconsistent. With an average of just under 40 in test cricket, he has struggled to fulfill his early potential. However, improved consistency in the May/June 2007 series against England suggest he may now have adapted to the rigours of international