ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) and the West In­dies Play­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (WIPA) proud­ly ho­n­oured the re­gion’s most out­stand­ing crick­et­ing tal­ent at the eighth an­nu­al CWI/WIPA Awards Gala at the el­e­gant Wyn­d­ham Grand Bar­ba­dos Sam Lord’s Cas­tle on Sun­day.

The glit­ter­ing evening brought to­geth­er past leg­ends, cur­rent stars, and key stake­hold­ers in a pow­er­ful cel­e­bra­tion of West In­dies crick­et — rec­og­niz­ing out­stand­ing male and fe­male crick­eters who have dis­played con­sis­ten­cy across in­ter­na­tion­al and re­gion­al for­mats dur­ing the 2024 sea­son, while al­so pay­ing trib­ute to the 50th an­niver­sary of West In­dies’ his­toric 1975 ICC Crick­et World Cup tri­umph — a land­mark achieve­ment that con­tin­ues to in­spire gen­er­a­tions of fans and crick­eters across the Caribbean and the world. In a night filled with pride, pas­sion, and pur­pose, play­ers, leg­ends, ad­min­is­tra­tors, fans, and dig­ni­taries came to­geth­er to ho­n­our the past and cel­e­brate the present.

Chris Dehring, CWI chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer (CEO), in his wel­come re­marks, ap­plaud­ed the ex­cep­tion­al per­for­mances of those nom­i­nat­ed.

He said, “You’ve weath­ered the pres­sure, risen to the oc­ca­sion, and made your na­tions and your re­gion proud. On be­half of all of us at Crick­et West In­dies and the West In­dies Play­ers As­so­ci­a­tion, con­grat­u­la­tions.”

Wayne Lewis, sec­re­tary of WIPA and co-chair of the CWI/WIPA Awards Com­mit­tee, de­liv­ered re­marks on be­half of WIPA Pres­i­dent Wavell Hinds, em­pha­siz­ing the spir­it be­hind the cel­e­bra­tion.

“This evening is about more than awards. It’s about recog­nis­ing the de­ter­mi­na­tion, re­silience, and sac­ri­fice that every play­er brings to this sport,” said Lewis. “That’s why mo­ments like these—where we pause to ho­n­our the hard work and tal­ent across the re­gion—are so mean­ing­ful. There is a place for every pas­sion­ate, com­mit­ted in­di­vid­ual in this game, and events like this re­mind us of the val­ue each per­son brings to our crick­et­ing com­mu­ni­ty.”

Ten award cat­e­gories were fea­tured this year, each with a strong list of de­serv­ing nom­i­nees.

Ho­n­our roll

Test Play­er of the Year – Shamar Joseph

Men’s ODI Play­er of the Year – Shai Hope

Men’s T20 Play­er of the Year – Alzarri Joseph

Women’s T20 Play­er of the Year – Hay­ley Matthews

Women’s ODI Play­er of the Year – Hay­ley Matthews

West In­dies Cham­pi­onship Play­er of the Year – Mikyle Louis

Re­gion­al T20 Play­er of the Year – Nicholas Pooran

CG Unit­ed Su­per50 Cup Play­er of the Year – Justin Greaves

CG Unit­ed Women’s Su­per50 Cup Play­er of the Year – Ky­cia Knight

CWI Women’s T20 Blaze Play­er of the Year – Plaf­fi­ana Milling­ton