The Cari­com Prime Min­is­te­r­i­al Sub-Com­mit­tee on Crick­et has called on Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) to im­ple­ment long over­due re­forms, de­scrib­ing the cur­rent mo­ment as one of “reck­on­ing” for the re­gion­al game.

In a state­ment re­leased to­day, the Com­mit­tee said it is “deeply con­cerned” about the state of West In­dies crick­et, par­tic­u­lar­ly in its long for­mat. It al­so flagged is­sues around youth de­vel­op­ment, tal­ent re­ten­tion, gov­er­nance, and long-term plan­ning.

The state­ment fol­lowed a vir­tu­al meet­ing of the Cari­com Bu­reau on Ju­ly21, 2025. The meet­ing in­clud­ed In­cum­bent Chair and Prime Min­is­ter of Ja­maica, Dr An­drew Hol­ness; Out­go­ing Chair and Prime Min­is­ter of Bar­ba­dos, Mia Mot­t­ley; and In­com­ing Chair and Prime Min­is­ter of St Kitts and Nevis, Dr Ter­rance Drew. The Chair of the Prime Min­is­te­r­i­al Sub-Com­mit­tee on Crick­et, Pres­i­dent of Guyana, Dr Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali, led the dis­cus­sion on crick­et.

The Com­mit­tee de­scribed crick­et as “a vi­tal part of Caribbean iden­ti­ty”, and said it holds deep eco­nom­ic, emo­tion­al, de­vel­op­men­tal, and cul­tur­al im­por­tance.

“Crick­et has, for decades, been a plat­form through which our small na­tions have col­lec­tive­ly stood tall on the world stage. West In­dies crick­et is very much a pub­lic good,” the state­ment said.

The Com­mit­tee reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to strength­en­ing gov­er­nance and plan­ning in the sport, and again called on Crick­et West In­dies to con­duct a thor­ough and trans­par­ent re­view of its lead­er­ship, man­age­ment, eco­nom­ic mod­els, and de­vel­op­ment frame­works.

It al­so ref­er­enced three ma­jor gov­er­nance re­views con­duct­ed in the last two decades: the Pat­ter­son Re­port of 2007; the Bar­riteau Re­port of 2015; and the We­h­by Re­port of 2020. It crit­i­cised the lack of progress in im­ple­ment­ing the rec­om­men­da­tions from these re­ports.

“We are trou­bled by the lack of re­al progress on the im­ple­men­ta­tion of these rec­om­men­da­tions,” the Com­mit­tee stat­ed. “We urge Crick­et West In­dies, yet again, to take the con­crete ac­tions out­lined in these re­ports.”

The Com­mit­tee an­nounced the for­ma­tion of a spe­cial stake­hold­er group that will in­clude crick­et leg­ends, pri­vate sec­tor rep­re­sen­ta­tives, and aca­d­e­mics.

It said this group will re­view the ex­ist­ing re­ports, syn­the­sise their rec­om­men­da­tions, and de­vel­op an ac­tion plan. Crick­et West In­dies and na­tion­al crick­et as­so­ci­a­tions will be in­vit­ed to par­tic­i­pate in the process.

Cari­com said it re­mains com­mit­ted to work­ing with Crick­et West In­dies and the pub­lic “to sup­port bold and strate­gic re­forms aimed at restor­ing West In­dies crick­et to glob­al ex­cel­lence across all for­mats.”