India Women vs West Indies Head-to-Head: ODI, T20I & Test Record

India women played their first Test match against West Indies. The six-match series of October and November 1976 was the beginning of India's international cricket in the format, and it finished level at one win apiece: India won the fourth Test at Patna by five wickets, their first Test victory, and West Indies won the sixth at Jammu by an innings and 24 runs. The other four were drawn. Shantha Rangaswamy made 381 runs across the series and Shubhangi Kulkarni took 23 wickets.

Half a century on, the fixture looks nothing like that. The two sides have not played a Test since, and the modern relationship is white-ball and heavily one-sided. In the matches with complete ball-by-ball records, India have won eight of nine one-day internationals and eleven of thirteen Twenty20 internationals.

The one figure that defines the contemporary fixture belongs to Smriti Mandhana. In one-day cricket against West Indies she has made 451 runs and been dismissed four times — an average of 112.75, comfortably the highest she records against any opponent and among the highest any India batter has against a full member in the format.

The head-to-head, format by format

Format	Span	Played	India won	West Indies won	Drawn
Test	1976	6	1	1	4
ODI	2013–2024	9	8	1	—
T20I	2014–2024	13	11	2	—

The Test row is the complete record; the two sides have never met again in the format. The one-day and Twenty20 rows cover matches with complete delivery-level records rather than the entire history of those fixtures, which begins earlier.

The single most striking thing about this fixture's modern shape is how narrow the margins were in the two West Indies wins and how wide they were in India's. West Indies won a one-day international at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in November 2019 by one run, and a Twenty20 international at Mohali in March 2016 by three runs. India's wins have included margins of 211 runs, 155 runs, 115 runs, 105 runs, 84 runs and ten wickets.

The 1976 Test series

Six Tests in a month, all in India, and the first six Tests India women ever played.

Test	Venue	Dates	Result
1st	Bangalore	31 Oct – 2 Nov 1976	Drawn
2nd	Madras	Nov 1976	Drawn
3rd	Delhi	Nov 1976	Drawn
4th	Patna	17–19 Nov 1976	India won by 5 wickets
5th	Lucknow	21–23 Nov 1976	Drawn
6th	Jammu	27–29 Nov 1976	West Indies won by an innings and 24 runs

Three-day Tests, which is why four of the six were drawn. The Patna win on 19 November 1976 is the foundation date for India women's Test cricket, and the Jammu defeat eight days later, by an innings, is the counterweight that made the series a draw.

Rangaswamy's 381 runs was the highest aggregate on either side, and Kulkarni's 23 wickets the largest haul. Both went on to captain India. The series was played to substantial crowds — the Madras Test drew an audience that treated it as a cricket match rather than a curiosity, which was not the norm for women's cricket anywhere in 1976.

The wider story of that generation and what followed is on the India women's cricket history page and the India women's national team history page.

The one-day record

Date	Venue	Scores	Result
31 Jan 2013	Brabourne Stadium	India 284-6; West Indies 179	India won by 105 runs
29 Jun 2017	Derby	West Indies 183-8; India 186-3	India won by 7 wickets
1 Nov 2019	North Sound	West Indies 225-7; India 224	West Indies won by 1 run
3 Nov 2019	North Sound	India 191-6; West Indies 138	India won by 53 runs
6 Nov 2019	North Sound	West Indies 194; India 195-4	India won by 6 wickets
12 Mar 2022	Hamilton	India 317-8; West Indies 162	India won by 155 runs
22 Dec 2024	Vadodara	India 314-9; West Indies 103	India won by 211 runs
24 Dec 2024	Vadodara	India 358-5; West Indies 243	India won by 115 runs
27 Dec 2024	Vadodara	West Indies 162; India 167-5	India won by 5 wickets

India's 358 for 5 at the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara on 24 December 2024 is their highest total in the fixture, and Harleen Deol was player of the match for 115. Two days earlier at the same ground they had made 314 for 9 and bowled West Indies out for 103 to win by 211 runs, the largest margin the fixture has produced.

The December 2024 series is the clearest statement of where the two sides now stand: three matches, three India wins, and West Indies passing 250 only once across six innings.

The 1 November 2019 match at North Sound is the fixture's best contest. West Indies made 225 for 7, India were bowled out for exactly 224 off the last ball of the fiftieth over, and Stafanie Taylor took the award. It remains West Indies' only one-day win over India in the archive.

The March 2022 meeting at Seddon Park came in the fifty-over World Cup, where India's 317 for 8 was built on a Mandhana century and West Indies fell 155 short. Where these totals sit is on the India women most centuries page.

India's leading run scorers

One-day internationals, 100 runs or more in the fixture:

Player	Inns	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	4s	6s
Smriti Mandhana	8	451	123	112.75	98.5	56	9
Harmanpreet Kaur	8	284	109	47.33	107.2	30	5
Jemimah Rodrigues	7	222	69	37.00	83.5	22	3
Poonam Raut	6	195	77	39.00	61.9	13	1
Harleen Deol	4	160	115	53.33	102.6	18	1
Pratika Rawal	3	134	76	44.67	75.3	18	1
Mithali Raj	6	132	46	26.40	56.4	11	0
Deepti Sharma	5	106	39	26.50	73.1	10	1
M D Thirush Kamini	2	100	100	100.00	68.5	11	1

Mandhana's 112.75 is the number that carries the page. Four dismissals in eight innings, a hundred, and nine sixes — more than she has hit against any other opponent in the fixture's span. She has been player of the match against West Indies three times in one-day cricket.

Harmanpreet Kaur's 109 and Harleen Deol's 115 are the other two hundreds in the table, and Thirush Kamini's exactly 100 in the January 2013 win at the Brabourne Stadium is the third. Mithali Raj's 132 at 26.40 is the outlier — she averaged far more than that against most opponents, and West Indies is one of the few sides she did not dominate.

Twenty20 internationals, 90 runs or more:

Player	Inns	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	4s	6s
Smriti Mandhana	12	415	77	46.11	136.1	60	6
Jemimah Rodrigues	9	264	73	44.00	111.9	27	2
Shafali Verma	7	186	73	37.20	152.5	21	8
Harmanpreet Kaur	9	175	56	43.75	100.0	20	0
Richa Ghosh	6	150	54	50.00	178.6	16	6
Veda Krishnamurthy	4	95	57	47.50	125.0	11	0

Richa Ghosh's strike rate of 178.6 is the highest in either table and the most emphatic short-format record any India batter has in this fixture — 150 runs from 84 balls with six sixes. Shafali Verma's 152.5 with eight sixes is next.

Mandhana leads both formats. Her 415 Twenty20 runs at 46.11 and 136.1, added to the 451 at 112.75 in the fifty-over game, make West Indies the opponent she has scored most freely against across her career.

India's leading wicket takers

One-day internationals, five wickets or more:

Player	Wkts	Balls	Runs	Ave	Econ	Best
Deepti Sharma	16	396	237	14.81	3.59	6/31
Renuka Singh	10	173	100	10.00	3.47	5/30
Jhulan Goswami	7	287	198	28.29	4.14	2/13
Poonam Yadav	7	240	118	16.86	2.95	2/20
Priya Mishra	5	100	101	20.20	6.06	3/49

Deepti Sharma's 6 for 31 is the best bowling return in the fixture and one of the best figures in India women's one-day history. Renuka Singh's 5 for 30 in the December 2024 win at Vadodara is the other five-wicket haul, and it came in the match India won by 211 runs.

Poonam Yadav's economy of 2.95 across 240 deliveries is the tightest in the table. Sixteen wickets at 14.81 makes Deepti Sharma the fixture's dominant bowler by some distance, and her record here is better than against any other side.

Twenty20 internationals, five wickets or more:

Player	Wkts	Balls	Runs	Ave	Econ	Best
Deepti Sharma	19	216	183	9.63	5.08	4/14
Radha Yadav	14	198	158	11.29	4.79	4/30
Anuja Patil	8	78	41	5.13	3.15	3/16
Harmanpreet Kaur	7	60	60	8.57	6.00	4/23
Pooja Vastrakar	7	120	109	15.57	5.45	2/20
Poonam Yadav	5	138	112	22.43	4.87	2/24

Anuja Patil's eight wickets at 5.13 with an economy of 3.15 across thirteen overs is the most efficient return in the fixture. Harmanpreet Kaur's 4 for 23 is the only four-wicket haul by a part-time bowler in either table and came in the November 2019 series in the Caribbean.

Deepti Sharma's 19 Twenty20 wickets on top of 16 in the one-day game gives her 35 across both formats — more than any India bowler has against West Indies, and she has been player of the match in the fixture three times. Her career figures are on the India women most wickets page, and the best returns are ranked on the India women best bowling figures page.

The 2019 Caribbean tour, and what changed after it

The November 2019 tour is the hinge of the modern fixture. India played three one-day internationals and five Twenty20 internationals in Antigua, St Lucia and Guyana, and it produced both the closest result the fixture has seen — the one-run defeat at North Sound — and its most lopsided passage. India won the last five Twenty20 internationals of the tour, including a match at Providence in which West Indies were bowled out for 59 and another, reduced to nine overs a side, that India won by five runs after making 50 for 7.

Since that tour India have lost only one further match to West Indies in either format: the Twenty20 international at the DY Patil Stadium in December 2024, when Hayley Matthews took the game away with an unbeaten chase of 160 in 15.4 overs.

Two days later India made 217 for 4 at the same ground and won by 60. That is the fixture in miniature — West Indies capable of winning any single match through Matthews or Taylor, and India winning nearly all the rest.

The Caribbean game's own account is on the history of West Indies cricket page, and comparable Indian fixtures are on the India women vs New Zealand head-to-head and India women vs South Africa head-to-head pages. India's own domestic structure is on the India women's domestic cricket page and the rest of the game at the cricket in India hub.

Sources and method

The 1976 Test series results, venues, dates and the aggregate figures for Shantha Rangaswamy and Shubhangi Kulkarni were verified against ESPNcricinfo's series records and scorecards for the West Indies women's tour of India in 1976-77, read on 30 August 2026. That series was India women's first in Test cricket and the Patna match their first Test win.

One-day international and Twenty20 international results, margins, totals, individual scores and player-of-the-match awards are computed from ball-by-ball delivery records covering January 2013 to December 2024, checked against ESPNcricinfo scorecards for the corresponding matches.

The white-ball counts cover matches with complete delivery-level records rather than the all-time totals for those fixtures, which begin earlier than the archive. The Test row is complete, because the two sides have played no Tests since 1976.

Batting and bowling tables carry stated thresholds. Averages are runs per dismissal, economy is runs per six legal deliveries, and batting strike rate is runs per hundred balls. Claims that a player's record against West Indies is their best against any opponent rest on comparing their by-opposition figures across the same archive and are limited to that scope.

Figures for current players will move with the next series between the sides.