10 West Indies-born cricketers who played for another country 

West Indies has been a powerhouse in the cricket world. The Caribbean team won the first ICC Cricket World Cups. Also, the Men in Maroon are the only ones to win the ICC T20 World Cup twice in cricket history. 

Unfortunately, there have been some tensions between the players and the West Indies Cricket Board of late. Due to those issues, some big names of the Caribbean team have preferred playing league cricket for franchises over their country. 

A few cricketers even migrated to other nations and then represented them at the international level. Here’s a Top 10 list of those players. 

#10 Jofra Archer

 

Archer has provided much balance to the English team. He can even strike a few big shots with the bat in the lower middle-order. 

#9 Chris Jordan

Like Archer, Jordan is a right-arm quick who can bat in the lower middle-order. Jordan has played 8 Tests, 34 ODIs, and 55 T20Is for the English team. 

#8 Gladstone Small 

He was born in St. George, Barbados. Like Archer and Jordan, Small was a right-arm fast bowler. 

#7 Roland Butcher 

However, he did not bowl a single ball for England. In the three ODI games he played for England, Butcher scored 58 runs, with his highest score being 52. 

#6 Chris Lewis 

Lewis played 32 Tests and 53 ODI matches for the English team. The fast bowler scalped 93 Test wickets and 63 wickets in the 50-overs format. 

#5 Monte Lynch 

Another Guyana-born cricketer to appear on this list is the right-arm bowler Monte Lynch. Interestingly, he played his first and last ODI against West Indies. 

Lynch could bowl off-spin and medium pace. He played three ODI matches for England in the year 1988. 

#4 Norman Cowans 

Cowans picked up 51 wickets in Tests and 23 wickets in his ODI career. Besides, he even aggregated 188 runs in international cricket. 

#3 Sammy Guillen 

However, he switched to New Zealand later. In all, Guillen played eight Tests in his career, scoring 202 runs at an average of 20.19. 

#2 Xavier Marshall

After playing a few matches for the Men in Maroon, Marshall has now switched to the USA. He has played 13 ODI matches for the United States. 

#1 Clayton Lambert 

Lambert majorly played for the West Indies cricket team. However, he returned to international cricket as an American played in 2004 at the age of 42.