ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies’ (CWI) Board of Di­rec­tors along with its Ex­ec­u­tive Man­age­ment team met over the week­end to dis­cuss strate­gic poli­cies out­lined in CWI’s 2024-2027 Strate­gic Plan ‘The Long Run’.

The meet­ing, which was held in An­tigua on Sat­ur­day, was chaired by pres­i­dent Dr Kishore Shal­low and fo­cused on or­gan­i­sa­tion­al per­for­mance, strate­gic ini­tia­tives, and the con­tin­ued growth and de­vel­op­ment of West In­dies crick­et.

The meet­ing marked the Board’s on­ly sched­uled face-to-face meet­ing for 2026, com­ple­ment­ing the reg­u­lar vir­tu­al meet­ings held through­out the year.

It fol­lowed an ear­li­er meet­ing on Fri­day with CWI’s Ex­ec­u­tive Com­mit­tee, which com­prised the pres­i­dents of each Mem­ber Ter­ri­to­ry to­geth­er with Shal­low and his vice-pres­i­dent Az­im Bas­sarath.

The Ex­ec­u­tive Com­mit­tee con­sid­ered sev­er­al strate­gic mat­ters in ad­vance of the full Board meet­ing, sup­port­ing an ef­fi­cient gov­er­nance process while en­sur­ing ro­bust dis­cus­sion on is­sues of re­gion­al im­por­tance.

A sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of the meet­ing was de­vot­ed to the con­tin­ued de­vel­op­ment of the Crick­et West In­dies Cam­pus at Coolidge Crick­et Ground, where they re­ceived up­dates on plans to trans­form the cam­pus in­to an all-en­com­pass­ing, world-class crick­et op­er­a­tions fa­cil­i­ty.

The Board al­so re­viewed progress made on sev­er­al strate­gic ini­tia­tives be­ing ad­vanced by CEO Chris Dehring and the Ex­ec­u­tive Man­age­ment team. Col­lec­tive­ly, these ini­tia­tives re­flect key ob­jec­tives iden­ti­fied with­in the Com­mer­cial & Fi­nan­cial Sus­tain­abil­i­ty pil­lar of the 2024-2027 Strate­gic Plan, with pri­or­i­ty be­ing placed on mod­ernising CWI’s op­er­a­tions and man­age­ment, strength­en­ing high-per­for­mance sys­tems, di­ver­si­fy­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s rev­enue streams, un­lock­ing new com­mer­cial op­por­tu­ni­ties and po­si­tion­ing West In­dies crick­et for sus­tained suc­cess both on and off the field.

Shal­low said the meet­ing re­flect­ed the Board’s con­tin­ued com­mit­ment to pro­vid­ing strong gov­er­nance while sup­port­ing the long-term growth of West In­dies crick­et.

“This Board meet­ing pro­vid­ed an in­valu­able op­por­tu­ni­ty for Di­rec­tors to en­gage in con­struc­tive dis­cus­sions on the strate­gic di­rec­tion of Crick­et West In­dies.

“As the game con­tin­ues to evolve, main­tain­ing strong align­ment be­tween the Board and man­age­ment is es­sen­tial to en­sur­ing that the de­ci­sions we make to­day po­si­tion West In­dies crick­et for sus­tained suc­cess,” Shal­low said.

“I am en­cour­aged by the progress of sev­er­al trans­for­ma­tion­al ini­tia­tives that di­rect­ly sup­port the ob­jec­tives of the four-year strate­gic plan, en­hanc­ing our com­mer­cial and crick­et­ing ca­pa­bil­i­ties while de­liv­er­ing en­dur­ing ben­e­fits for the game and its stake­hold­ers across the re­gion.”

Mean­while, Dehring said the Board’s en­gage­ment was crit­i­cal to ad­vanc­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s long-term vi­sion.

“Our dis­cus­sions over the two days re­in­forced a shared com­mit­ment to de­liv­er­ing on the am­bi­tions of ‘The Long Run’ and build­ing a stronger, more sus­tain­able fu­ture for Crick­et West In­dies.

“From the con­tin­ued de­vel­op­ment of the Crick­et West In­dies Cam­pus and High-Per­for­mance Cen­tre to ini­tia­tives fo­cused on in­no­va­tion, com­mer­cial growth and rev­enue di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion, we are mak­ing mean­ing­ful progress across sev­er­al pil­lars of the strate­gic plan,” Dehring point­ed out.

“While we re­main fo­cused on man­ag­ing to­day’s chal­lenges, we are equal­ly com­mit­ted to cre­at­ing an or­gan­i­sa­tion that is mod­ern, re­silient and po­si­tioned to de­liv­er sus­tained suc­cess for our play­ers, our stake­hold­ers and our fans.”

CMC