4] However, the team's long period of pre-eminence was coming to an end. Their 2–1 home defeat by Australia in 1994-95 saw the West Indies relinquish the mantle as the World's best Test cricket side to their visitors, and by the time that the International Cricket Council launched the official Test rankings in 2001, the West Indies were rated as the sixth best team in the world.[35]Squads[සංස්කරණය]The following players represented England in at least one Test or One-day International during the 1988 tour:England squad - West Indian cricket team in England in 19881 MW Gatting *1  ·2 CWJ Athey  ·3 RJ Bailey  ·4 BC Broad  ·5 DJ Capel  ·6 CS Cowdrey *3  ·7 JH Childs  ·8 TS Curtis  ·9 PAJ DeFreitas  ·10 GR Dilley  ·11 PR Downton †  ·12 JE Emburey *2  ·13 NA Foster  ·14 GA Gooch *4 15 DI Gower  ·16 PW Jarvis  ·17 AJ Lamb  ·18 MA Lynch  ·19 MP Maynard  ·20 MD Moxon  ·21 DR Pringle  ·22 NV Radford  ·23 CJ Richards † ·24 GC Small  ·25 RA Smith The fol