West Indian cricket team against Afghanistan in India in 2019–20 should not be confused with West Indian cricket team in India in 2019–20.
| Series Name: | Afghan cricket team against West Indies in 2019–20 |
| Team1 Image: | Flag of Afghanistan (2013–2021).svg |
| Team1 Name: | Afghanistan |
| Team2 Image: | WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg |
| Team2 Name: | West Indies |
| From Date: | 4 November |
| To Date: | 1 December 2019 |
| Team1 Captain: | Rashid Khan |
| Team2 Captain: | Jason Holder (Tests) Kieron Pollard (ODIs & T20Is) |
| No Of Tests: | 1 |
| Team1 Tests Won: | 0 |
| Team2 Tests Won: | 1 |
| Team1 Tests Most Runs: | Javed Ahmadi (101) |
| Team2 Tests Most Runs: | Shamarh Brooks (111) |
| Team1 Tests Most Wickets: | Amir Hamza (6) |
| Team2 Tests Most Wickets: | Rahkeem Cornwall (10) |
| No Of Odis: | 3 |
| Team1 Odis Won: | 0 |
| Team2 Odis Won: | 3 |
| Team1 Odis Most Runs: | Asghar Afghan (124) |
| Team2 Odis Most Runs: | Shai Hope (229) |
| Team1 Odis Most Wickets: | Mujeeb Ur Rahman (5) |
| Team2 Odis Most Wickets: | Roston Chase (6) |
| Player Of Odi Series: | Roston Chase (WI) |
| No Of Twenty20s: | 3 |
| Team1 Twenty20s Won: | 2 |
| Team2 Twenty20s Won: | 1 |
| Team1 Twenty20s Most Runs: | Rahmanullah Gurbaz (94) |
| Team2 Twenty20s Most Runs: | Evin Lewis (106) |
| Team1 Twenty20s Most Wickets: | Karim Janat (6) |
| Team2 Twenty20s Most Wickets: | Kesrick Williams (8) |
| Player Of Twenty20 Series: | Karim Janat (Afg) |
The Afghanistan cricket team played the West Indies cricket team in India in November and December 2019 to play one Test, three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.[1] [2] It was the first Test match that Afghanistan played against the West Indies.[3] The two teams had played each other ten times before, with the majority of matches in the Caribbean, with this being Afghanistan's fourth Test match.[4] [5] All the matches were played at the Ekana International Cricket Stadium in Lucknow.[6]
Following the 2019 Cricket World Cup, where Afghanistan lost all of their matches, Rashid Khan was named as the new captain of the Afghanistan cricket team across all three formats.[7] [8] In September 2019, Kieron Pollard was named as the captain of the West Indies' team for the ODIs and T20Is, taking over the roles from Jason Holder.[9] Holder was retained as the Test captain of the team.[10] Nitin Menon was one of the on-field umpires for the Test match,[11] becoming the 62nd Indian to umpire at this level.[12]
The West Indies won the first two ODIs to take an unassailable lead in the series, and secured their first ODI series win since beating Bangladesh 3–0 in August 2014.[13] The West Indies won the final ODI by five wickets,[14] winning the series 3–0, which was also their first whitewash since the Bangladesh series.[15] Afghanistan won the T20I series 2–1.[16] It was the second time that Afghanistan had won a T20I series against a team in the top ten of the ICC T20I Championship rankings, after whitewashing Bangladesh 3–0 in June 2018.[17] The West Indies won the one-off Test match by nine wickets, with the game finishing early on the third day.[18]
West Indies cricketer Nicholas Pooran was found guilty of ball tampering during the third ODI match.[25] Pooran admitted the charge, and was banned for four T20I matches.[26] Shai Hope was added to the West Indies' T20I squad for the final match, as cover for Denesh Ramdin who was injured.[27]