| Although cricket is a team game, there is plenty | | | | Oval in 1971(18.5 overs) |
| room for brilliant individual performers and | | | | 3. Lance Gibbs: 8/38 against India at Kensington Oval |
| performances. In addition, while cricket is a game for | | | | in 1962 (53.3 overs) |
| batsmen, many cricket pundits hold that bowlers win | | | | 4. Curtley Ambrose: 8/45 against England at |
| Test matches. After all, if a team cannot claim 20 | | | | Kensington Oval in 1990 (22.4 overs) |
| wickets on a regular basis, it would rely on fortuitous | | | | 5. Michael Holding: 8/92 versus England at The Oval in |
| declarations to win and it does not often happen that | | | | 1976 (33.0 overs) |
| teams lose matches after declaring anyway. | | | | Jack Noreiga's effort is the closest any West Indian |
| The West Indies have had a number of | | | | ever came to taking all ten wickets in an innings. |
| match-winners in Test matches, particularly with the | | | | What is surprising is that the West Indies still lost to |
| pace armoury of the late 70s, 80s and early 90s. | | | | India by seven wickets in Port of Spain. The |
| Surprisingly, a spinner has the best bowling analysis in | | | | Trinidadian off-spinner did not pick up a wicket in the |
| an innings for the Caribbean side. For a region that is | | | | second innings-leaving his match tally at 9/131, which |
| enamoured with fast bowling, it is a further surprise | | | | was his best match bowling figures as well. |
| that four spinners (Noreiga, Gibbs, Valentine and | | | | Unlike Noreiga's effort, Colin Croft's 8/29 against |
| Ramadhin) are in the top ten of this list. Apart from | | | | Pakistan in 1977 was a match-winning effort. The |
| Noreiga, the top six in this list are all by legends of | | | | right arm fast bowler's devastating spell wreck the |
| West Indies cricket: | | | | Pakistan batting order in the first innings. However, he |
| 1. Jack Noreiga: 9/95 against India at the Queen's | | | | only took one wicket for 66 runs in the second |
| Park Oval in 1971 (49.4 overs) | | | | innings. The W.I. still went on to win by six wickets-a |
| 2. Colin Croft: 8/29 against Pakistan at Queen's Park | | | | comfortable victory. |