Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, was a Trinidadian cricketer, lawyer and politician who served as Trinidad and Tobago's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and became the UK's first black peer. He played 18 Test matches for the West Indies before the Second World War and took the team's first wicket in Test cricket. An advocate against racial discrimination, in later life he was influential in the passing of the 1965 Race Relations Act in Britain. He was knighted in 1962 and made a life peer in 1969.
Constantine in Australia in November 1930
A modern photograph of Queen's Park Oval, Trinidad and Tobago's home ground
Constantine demonstrating his bowling technique
Constantine in his West Indies cap
The West Indies men's cricket team, nicknamed The Windies, is a men's cricket team representing the West Indies—a group of mainly English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region—and administered by Cricket West Indies. The players on this composite team are selected from a chain of fifteen Caribbean nation-states and territories. As of 26 November 2022, the West Indies cricket team is ranked eighth in Tests, and tenth in ODIs and seventh in T20Is in the official ICC rankings.
Learie Constantine, who played Test cricket in the 1920s and 1930s, was one of the first great West Indian players.
Daren Sammy. The West Indies have won three major tournament titles: the Champions Trophy once, and the World Twenty20 twice. Both World T20s were won with Sammy as captain, making him the only West Indian captain besides Clive Lloyd with multiple ICC tournament victories.
Queen's Park Oval, Trinidad
Brian Lara holds the world record for highest score in Test cricket (400 v. England in 2003–04)
