Kraigg Brath­waite has stepped down as West In­dies Test cap­tain. Crick­et West In­dies says he had first in­di­cat­ed his in­ten­tion to do so to CWI lead­er­ship ear­li­er this year ahead of the com­ple­tion of the West In­dies’ suc­cess­ful tour of Pak­istan.

Brath­waite’s of­fi­cial tenure as Test cap­tain, which be­gan in March 2021, has been de­fined by his­toric achieve­ments. Un­der his lead­er­ship, the West In­dies se­cured their first Test vic­to­ry in Aus­tralia in 27 years with a thrilling eight-run win in Bris­bane in 2024. Ear­li­er this year, he led the team to a land­mark test vic­to­ry over Pak­istan in Pak­istan to lev­el the se­ries, the first in 34 years. His cap­tain­cy al­so saw West In­dies de­feat Eng­land at home in 2022 and claim a 2-0 se­ries win over Bangladesh in chal­leng­ing con­di­tions dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic in 2021.

Mean­while, the white-ball team al­so en­ters a new phase as Shai Hope as­sumes the role of T20I cap­tain in ad­di­tion to his ex­ist­ing ODI cap­tain­cy. He re­places Rov­man Pow­ell, who led the T20 side with dis­tinc­tion since May 2023.