Busi­ness­man Alessan­dro Mor­ris was unan­i­mous­ly elect­ed pres­i­dent of the Cay­man Is­lands Crick­et Board at an emer­gency board meet­ing two weeks ago in the Cay­mans.

Mor­ris, who this year rep­re­sent­ed the Cay­mans in the ICC World Cup qual­i­fi­er in Cana­da, is a suc­cess­ful busi­ness­man on the is­land and has spent a lot of his per­son­al fi­nances in as­sist­ing with the de­vel­op­ment of crick­et in the Cay­man Is­lands.

He re­places Court­ney Myles, who was elect­ed pres­i­dent of Cay­man Crick­et back in 2021. Mor­ris was Miles’ vice pres­i­dent for some time and was praised for his strong lead­er­ship and de­vel­op­men­tal vi­sion.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia, Mor­ris said: “I am hap­py to serve my coun­try off the field as well. I have played for the na­tion­al team with some suc­cess and hope­ful­ly I can con­tin­ue in the same man­ner off the field as well. I want to thank the out­go­ing pres­i­dent, Court­ney, for his work in tak­ing the crick­et up to this point and now is the time to take it even fur­ther.

“I have a strong ex­ec­u­tive with pro­fes­sion­als on board and we will be look­ing to ag­gres­sive­ly take the game for­ward on the Is­land. As an As­so­ciate mem­ber of the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC), we want to take our na­tion­al team up the rank­ings and hope­ful­ly, not too far in the fu­ture, we can land our­selves in the World Cup.

“We have spo­ken about cre­at­ing a vi­brant and ro­bust youth pro­gramme and this we see as the feed­er to our na­tion­al am­bi­tion in be­com­ing bet­ter.”

The 43-year-old Mor­ris has played a to­tal of 27 T20 In­ter­na­tion­als and has tak­en 35 wick­ets at a cred­i­ble av­er­age of 16.22 and a fine econ­o­my of 5.85. His best ef­fort with the ball was 4/7.

He added: “The aim here is to make the Cay­mans an in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et hub and we think we have the right back­ing to move in that di­rec­tion.” Al­so on the ex­ec­u­tive team with Mor­ris is Trinida­di­an Bruce Jal­im, who is an ISP man­ag­er on the Is­land.

Oth­er mem­bers of the ex­ec­u­tive in­clude vice-pres­i­dent Ri­car­do Roach, trea­sur­er Ma­jin Paul, sec­re­tary Jalon Lin­ton and di­rec­tors Jal­im, Cedric Gi­daris­ingh, An­drew Ledger, Ger­ri-Ann Fos­ter and Rakesh Bax­ani.