Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Di­rec­tor of Crick­et Miles Bas­combe met with ter­ri­to­r­i­al tal­ent iden­ti­fiers dur­ing the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed West In­dies Break­out League in T&T.

The work­shop, which spanned three days from May 8-10, brought to­geth­er CWI’s net­work of Ter­ri­to­r­i­al Tal­ent Iden­ti­fiers with key High Per­for­mance and coach­ing per­son­nel to im­prove align­ment, eval­u­a­tion meth­ods, and in­te­gra­tion with the se­nior men’s team en­vi­ron­ment.

The six tal­ent iden­ti­fiers went through sev­er­al com­pre­hen­sive ses­sions with head coach of the se­nior men’s team, Daren Sam­my, along­side high-per­for­mance man­ag­er Dwain Gill, se­nior tal­ent man­ag­er Ja­mal Smith, and CWI’s Per­for­mance An­a­lyst Ave­nesh See­taram.

Sam­my praised Crick­et West In­dies for the ini­tia­tive, which is in line with the strate­gic plan of align­ing the prin­ci­ples of the in­ter­na­tion­al team to the re­gion­al lev­el.

“It’s a great ini­tia­tive brought on by CWI with all the tal­ent IDs that we have around the re­gion, with the in­ten­tion to pro­vide con­text and guid­ance to this in­stru­men­tal group, by giv­ing them an in-depth look in­to what we do at the high­est lev­el in all three for­mats of the game,” Sam­my said. “The process­es we go through, the da­ta that is col­lect­ed, and how those trans­late to fill­ing the re­spec­tive per­son­nel roles in the var­i­ous teams. The work­shop gave us the op­por­tu­ni­ty to show our Tal­ent IDs a tem­plate that they could mir­ror in their home ter­ri­to­ries, re­gard­ing plan­ning and tac­ti­cal as­pects at the in­ter­na­tion­al lev­el.”

Di­rec­tor of Crick­et, Miles Bas­combe, out­lined the key ob­jec­tive of the work­shop.

“The work­shop’s main ob­jec­tive is to en­sure that the Ter­ri­to­r­i­al Tal­ent iden­ti­fiers know the process­es that dri­ve se­lec­tion and, by ex­ten­sion, tal­ent iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and de­vel­op­ment. We al­so took the op­por­tu­ni­ty to align the depth chart­ing process and gath­er their in­put on cre­at­ing a stan­dard­ised play­er as­sess­ment mod­el to be im­ple­ment­ed sys­tem-wide. The in­put and feed­back from the group was ex­treme­ly valu­able and pro­vid­ed a foun­da­tion for con­tin­u­ous col­lab­o­ra­tion."

Sam­my added that with the dri­ve and de­sire to re­gain dom­i­nance and reign on the in­ter­na­tion­al scene, the re­gion­al tal­ent iden­ti­fiers will play a cru­cial role.

“With the ex­per­tise of Ja­mal Smith and Ave­nesh See­taram, we showed the tal­ent IDs what is re­quired to be on par with the rest of the world, as well as ex­plain­ing the brand of crick­et we want to play and how we will use the re­gion­al lev­el as the start­ing point to plot our way to the sum­mit of in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et yet again,“ Sam­my shared. “Over these last few days, the work­shop pre­sent­ed the op­por­tu­ni­ty for the team to give guid­ance to the tal­ent IDs, which was met with great en­thu­si­asm and pas­sion.”

Ter­ri­to­r­i­al Tal­ent Iden­ti­fiers at the Work­shop: Hen­der­son Broomes (Bar­ba­dos), Ramnaresh Sar­wan (Guyana), Del­roy Mor­gan (Ja­maica), Samuel Spencer (Lee­ward Is­lands), Gibran Mo­hammed (Trinidad & To­ba­go), Craig Em­manuel (Wind­ward Is­lands).

(CWI Me­dia)