ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) pres­i­dent, Dr Kishore Shal­low has re­vealed that with­in the next week a new West In­dies Test cap­tain will be named.

Dr Shal­low made the an­nounce­ment while speak­ing on WESN Tv’s Face of Sports show on Fri­day, where he ad­mit­ted that he was im­pressed by the se­lec­tion process be­ing used to choose a new Test skip­per.

His com­ments came af­ter news broke ear­li­er this week that Ros­ton Chase, Joshua Da Sil­va, John Camp­bell, Jomel War­ri­can, Tevin Im­lach and Justin Greaves were the six can­di­dates short­list­ed to be in­ter­viewed for the Test cap­tain­cy.

Dr Shal­low ex­plained that Di­rec­tor of Crick­et Miles Bas­combe; chair­man of CWI’s Crick­et Com­mit­tee, Enoch Lewis, head coach Daren Sam­my and chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Chris Dehring, were re­spon­si­ble for con­duct­ing the in­ter­views.

How­ev­er, he said the rec­om­men­da­tions for the Test cap­tain would be made by Bas­combe and Sam­my.

“We are hope­ful that by the end of next week the Board will re­ceive rec­om­men­da­tions for the Test cap­tain.

“The last up­date that I got from the Di­rec­tor of Crick­et is that the process is go­ing pret­ty well,” Dr Shal­low said.

“This is the very first time we are go­ing through this sort of process of iden­ti­fy­ing a Test cap­tain and it is com­mend­able of the crick­et heads to come up with this type of ap­proach.”

The pres­i­dent ad­mit­ted that while the se­lec­tion process was rig­or­ous, he said it gave can­di­dates an in­sight as to what was ex­pect­ed of a West In­dies cap­tain.

“It is no se­cret, we are look­ing at about six play­ers and what I want the pub­lic to un­der­stand is ob­vi­ous­ly, it is not just done with eyes on the Test cap­tain­cy on­ly, it is ac­tu­al­ly a process go­ing through where these peo­ple who are iden­ti­fied as po­ten­tial lead­ers will be able to get a lev­el of ex­po­sure of the re­quire­ments and the cri­te­ria that we look for in a play­er to ap­point them as cap­tain.

“The Test cap­tain is a sig­nif­i­cant role. It’s not just crick­et on the field, but they are rep­re­sent­ing the en­tire re­gion off the field as well, so we want to give them an in­sight as to what is re­quired of them when they are con­sid­ered. There is even a psy­cho­me­t­ric test as one of the com­po­nents of this whole process,” Dr Shal­low point­ed out.

“It is re­al­ly im­pres­sive stuff by the tech­ni­cal team and hope­ful­ly, it can pro­duce a very suc­cess­ful Test cap­tain for us and hope­ful­ly, put the oth­ers who are up for con­sid­er­a­tion on a path that they would know what they need to do to be a cap­tain in the fu­ture or when­ev­er the op­por­tu­ni­ty aris­es.”

CMC