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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

WICB approves 19 changes

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The West In­dies Crick­et Board ap­proved a menu of 19 changes for the de­vel­op­ment of re­gion­al crick­et with a goal of es­tab­lish­ing the team as the num­ber one per­form­ing team in world crick­et.

The de­ci­sions were tak­en at a meet­ing in Port-of-Spain held on Fri­day and Sat­ur­day.At a me­dia con­fer­ence on Sat­ur­day, fol­low­ing the meet­ing, pres­i­dent Why­cliffe "Dave" Cameron an­nounced that the board ap­proved 19 of the 20 rec­om­men­da­tions which formed part of a com­pre­hen­sive re­port on the West In­dies crick­et sys­tem pre­pared and pre­sent­ed by di­rec­tor of crick­et Richard Py­bus.The Py­bus re­port holds "West In­dies First" as its guid­ing prin­ci­ple. The 33 page re­port fol­lows a com­pre­hen­sive three month, re­gion-wide study which he con­duct­ed be­tween No­vem­ber and Jan­u­ary.

Ad­di­tion­al Changes

Ad­di­tion­al no­table changes are:

1. The West In­dies head coach to be added to the se­lec­tion pan­el and will have full vot­ing rights

2. The West In­dies cap­tain(s) to be added to the se­lec­tion pan­el as non-vot­ing mem­bers

3. Struc­tured year round crick­et pro­gramme for all West In­dies and all First Class con­tract­ed play­ers

4. Fif­teen full time an­nu­al­ly con­tract­ed play­ers to each ter­ri­to­r­i­al board

5. Dou­ble round match­es (home and away) for min­i­mum of ten match­es a sea­son for re­gion­al First Class teams

6. Pro­fes­sion­al ad­min­is­tra­tive and coach­ing staff for each First Class team

7. West In­dies High Per­for­mance Pro­gramme to cater to the next in line West In­dies play­ers (ef­fec­tive­ly the West In­dies A Team)

8. WICB to ap­point coach­ing man­ag­er to im­ple­ment and over­see coach­ing pro­gramme through­out the re­gion

9. Im­ple­ment Elite Coach­es Path­way pro­gramme which will iden­ti­fy cur­rent and for­mer play­ers for ac­cel­er­at­ed coach­ing train­ing

10. Es­tab­lish West In­dies crick­et cap­tains coun­cil to utilise the crick­et knowl­edge and ex­pe­ri­ence of some of the world's great­est crick­eters, tap­ping in­to the crick­et wis­dom of the for­mer great West In­dies cap­tains to in­form crick­et pol­i­cy and im­ple­men­ta­tion.


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