West Indies captain Shai Hope celebrates reaching 100 runs during the second One-Day International cricket match versus New Zealand on Wednesday.
January 9, 2026
A number of the West Indies’ players across both men’s and women’s squads have been picked by ESPN as some of the standout players of 2025.
The ESPNcricinfo list is a list of fantasy teams curated by staff who pick the teams from among those who excelled through the year.
Described as prolific, Trinidad’s Nicholas Pooran got the highest honours, having been named captain of the ESPNcricinfo Men’s T20 team of 2025.
West Indies’ Nicholas Pooran plays a shot against Papua New Guinea during an ICC Men’s T20 World Cup cricket match at Guyana National Stadium in Providence, Guyana, Sunday, June 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Barbadian Shai Hope and Trinidadian Jayden Seals were named among the ESPNcricinfo Men’s One Day International (ODI) team of 2025.
West Indies’ Jayden Seales celebrates after taking the wicket of Pakistan’s Babar Azam during the first day of the first Test cricket match between Pakistan and West Indies at the Multan Cricket Stadium in Multan on January 17, 2025. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)
Commenting on the choices the ESPNcricinfo team said “Jayden Seales (27 wickets in 11 innings) votes from all but one of our staff, and with Shai Hope the year’s best keeper-bat, West Indies get two players in the XI for the first time this decade.”
For the women, Barbadian Hayley Matthews was named on the ESPNcricinfo Women’s T20 team of 2025, she was the only Caribbean woman on that side, dominated by players from Australia and England.
West Indies Women’s Captain Hayley Matthews
