HEADLINE: WI club championship not the answer, Dr Shallow

Dr Kishore Shallow, the president of Cricket West Indies, means well, though he cannot quite put his finger on the solution to the problem of producing worthwhile cricketers.

One of the points he made at the Ramlagans Balmain United Literary Cricket Club annual awards function at the National Cricket Centre on August 24 was: “Despite the efforts and continued commitment of administrators and clubs and members and so on, the reality is that such reliance on these structures with limited resources is simply not sustainable.”

He has again raised the idea of a West Indies club championship, which he expects will encourage young men of ability to want to play the game, encouraged by the opportunity to travel through the islands for their clubs, motivated by similar opposition and entertaining those same clubs on their home turf.

To his progressive way of thinking, he also imagines that such a competition would motivate territorial clubs to produce top-class cricketers.

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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

If you make club cricket entertaining people will come out to watch it..
Years ago people came out in droves to watch club cricket in Barbados, Jamaica
Why not now

Dr. Shallow might be on to something.
It's possibly an expensive venture but worth a try to produce professional club cricketers.

Also Sir, with the Olympics now on the cards. We need a reginal T20 tournament. The Wwrds and Lwrds would each hold a tournament to see which island represents their territory. So we would then follow that with a 7 team tournament, nationals only.

IOC plz do not use a ranking system. There are at least 5 to 6 unions that play cricket, I think. Europa, Asia, Oceania, Concacaf and Africa. If a 12 team tournament, 2 from 3 (Concacaf, Africa and Oceania) and 3 from 2?

16 teams would be ideal. Thinking about it.