Former West Indies cricketers Ramnaresh Sarwan and Philo Wallace have been named on a six-member Task Force to look into selection systems for Cricket West Indies (CWI).
Guardian Media Sports understands that the duo will join vice-president of CWI Dr Kishore Shallow, director of cricket Jimmy Adams, CWI director Enoch Lewis and cricketer Miles Bascombe on the committee.
Last week, CEO of CWI Johnny Graves said that a Task Force was put in place to deal with selection systems. The last Windies selection panel headed by Courtney Browne was axed and they were informed that they could re-apply for their positions after the Task Force made recommendations to the board. Browne, Travis Dowlin, Lockhart Sebastien and Eldine Baptiste were removed. Since then Browne and Baptiste have had their lawyers communicate with the board, stating that they were illegally removed.
Graves said: "At the point in time director of cricket Jimmy Adams and myself called the selectors and spoke to them, letting them know that after the recommendation from the Task Force come in, they are free to re-apply for their positions or any other positions that will be advertised. We reinforced to them that we expected and wanted them to apply for future positions. At the end of this period, the findings of the Task Force will be made known to us and we will advertise the positions and they are free to reapply.
"This Task Force was not put in place to get rid of anybody. It was put together to bring our structure in line with international standards, for example in terms of numbers of selectors they may want to look at more than four people choosing teams across the board. We have three distinct categories, the men's senior teams, the women's team and also the youth teams.
"In my opinion that is an awful lot of cricket for four selectors to be looking at and selecting. Under the interim arrangement we have put in place, we have now given the head coach and captain voting rights. Whether the Task Force agrees with this or not, we wait to see. Before the selectors were travelling to the matches. We have stopped that because it costs a significant amount of money. Now with the captain and coach having voting rights, we have stopped selectors from travelling."