ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) today paid tribute to Steve Camacho, the former Manager of the West Indies Team and Chief Executive Officer of the WICB, who died on Friday night in Antigua. He was also an outstanding batsman and played for Guyana in the Shell Shield and West Indies at the international level.
Camacho was 69 at the time of his passing.
George Stephen Camacho was born on October 12, 1945 in British Guiana and played club cricket at the historic Georgetown Cricket Club. He went on to play 76 first-class matches as a right-handed top order batsman, scoring 4,079 runs including seven centuries and 24 half centuries.
In an 11-Test career between 1968 and 1971, Camacho scored 640 runs, and played in several outstanding West Indies teams alongside Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Wes Hall, Clive Lloyd, Lance Gibbs, Roy Fredericks and Rohan Kanhai.
He became the 126th capped West Indies Test cricket when he debuted against England at Queen’s Park Oval in 1969. He also captained the West Indies President’s XI against touring teams.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Emphasis will shift from the Barbados-based High Performance Centre and onto the WICB Professional Cricket League for the development of regional players.The West Indies Cricket Board said today while the HPC had served the region well in producing a number of well-established Test players, the institution would no longer function as it did in the past by enrolling a set of players on a year-round basis. Rather, the HPC will now serve to provide the “finishing touches to elite players” coming out of the regional competitions. “We need to differentiate between the High Performance Centre and High Performance Programme. The staff is still based in Barbados, but we no longer have a cohort because we are now looking to the franchises to develop the talent,” said the WICB’s Director of Cricket, Richard Pybus.“The financial investment is into the establishment of a sustainable professional cricket system in the region, not only as a standalone professional product in the sporting marketplace, but also with the specific goal to produce players for the West Indies.“It is now the responsibility of the territorial boards in their development programmes and the franchises with first-class cricket to ensure the player pipeline to West Indies teams is well-stocked with international standard players.”
JOB OPPORTUNITY The Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) is responsible for managing cricket in Barbados in accordance with the provisions of the Barbados Cricket Association Act, 1933-12. The Association is now seeking to recruit an individual to fill the post of Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The successful applicant will report to the Board of Management of the BCA. MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES: • The CEO will be responsible for the general management of the operations of the BCA, which includes its human resource development, cricket development, operations, financial management and marketing in an efficient and effective manner. •The CEO will be required to provide leadership, along with the Board of Management, in the implementation of the BCA Strategic Plan.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Cricket’s world governing body, the International Cricket Council, on Thursday, launched its official women’s team rankings, with West Indies installed at number five in the table.
The rankings will be based on a multi-format system, incorporating results from all three forms of the game. According to the ICC, Tests, One-Day Internationals and Twenty20s will be treated equally, with rankings points available from every international game.
Rankings will be based on results of the last three to four years with the first two years being counted at only 50 per cent. Results between October 2012 and September last year have been also counted at 50 per cent, while results since October last year will be counted at 100 per cent.
Former West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Ken Gordon has called on the Board to be magnaminous and allow suspended coach Phil Simmons to be with the team on its current tour of Sri Lanka.
Admitting that Simmons’ suspension was the right thing for the WICB to do, Gordon said it would be a tremendous morale booster if Simmons was allowed to be with the team in a support or advisory capacity. “We desperately need one.”
Simmons recently criticised the board for what he described as “interference from outside” which led to the omission of Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard from the team on tour in Sri Lanka. He was subsequently suspended.
Gordon said Simmons’ criticism has gained wide support. “The events which followed are ironic for the board and its current president who have lost the respect of the cricketing public, have in recent times failed to take action for indisciplined behavior, from Chris Gayle on more than one occasion, conducted itself in an unprincipled and dishonest manner in its handling of the Patterson Report, demonstrated its inability to give responsible leadership …. by pussyfooting when firm and decisive action was required against the West Indian team for walking off the field in India. And now…. this board suspends Simmons for speaking out of turn.”
