West  Indies  captain  Jason  Holder  and  pacer  Shannon  Gabriel  have  been  named  in  Cricinfo’s  test  team  of  the  year.

Holder  scored 336 runs at an average of 37.33 and  took 33 wickets at an average of 12.39, while  Gabriel  ended  the  year  with  37  wickets  at  19.54 apiece.

Interestingly India was  the no. 1 test side through 2018, but only one Indian, the unstoppable Virat Kohli, makes it to  the test team of the year compared  to  number  8  ranked  west  indies  with  two  selections.

In the  meantime Shai Hope  is  the  lone  West  Indian  in the  one  day  international  team  of  the  year  following  his  875  runs  at  an  average  of  67.30  and  the  hard-hitting  Jamaican  Andre  Russell  who  scored  625 runs  at  a  strike  rate    of 183.82 is  in the  20  team  of  the  year.

Russell also  took  35 wickets  at  24.14 and  an  economy rate  of  9.