The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
Six players from double champions Trinidad & Tobago were included in a 20-man squad to train for this year's Red Stripe Bowl competition, the junior West Indies selection panel announced over the weekend..
The squad will participate in a one-week camp in Trinidad & Tobago and reduced to 16 for the Red Stripe Bowl competition which starts in October.
A near tragedy during the finals of the TCL Group Under-19 competition at Bourda in Guyana has highlighted just how unprepared and unprofessional some of the regional boards are when it comes to protecting the most important assets -- the players.
The incident in question, which was quite frightening, occurred on the first day when Windward Islands off-spinner Asa Edwards was trying to prevent a boundary in front of the Rohan Kanhai stand. In his effort to flick the ball back to a teammate for the throw, he lost his balance and crashed head first into the iron rails.
Guyanese broadcaster Sean Devers, who has been following regional youth cricket -- as player and journalist -- since 1984, believes this year's TCL Group Under-19 tournament is the "weakest I've ever seen."
"This is the worst standard of general cricket I've ever seen at this level. There are some good players here and there but, in all my time following youth cricket, this is the most disappointing," Devers declared, citing sub-standard wickets in Guyana as one of the main reasons for the declining standard.
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West Indies cricket is looking for a president. Nomination closes on August 31, election day is September 30, and the question is who will it be? Will it be Clarvis Joseph of Antigua or Teddy Griffith of Barbados?
Although there is still time for others to enter - including former West Indies wicketkeeper Deryck Murray and former opening batsman and CEO Steve Camacho who, it is understood, are being encouraged to do so by one or two board members, the race is and will be between Joseph and Griffith with Joseph as the front-runner.
The stakeholders of West Indies cricket should be happy to hear that the proposed secret selling-off of their birth rights by the Executive Committee of the WICB to the South African Investments Limited (SAIL) will not materialise.
At the last shareholders meeting of the WICB in Dominica in July this year, shareholders and directors were unsuccessful in obtaining information from the all-powerful Executive Commitee, and lead director relating to SAIL, Stephen Alleyne, on the status of the proposed investment agreement between SAIL and the WICB.