WICB APPOINTS NEW COACH AND IDENTIFIES NEW CEO

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WICB APPOINTS NEW COACH AND IDENTIFIES NEW CEO

Board Agrees on Action Plan For Immediate Performance Improvement

John Dyson, former Australian Test Player and Sri Lankan coach, has been appointed the new West Indies Coach. The rest of the Team Management will be identified and appointed subsequently. Additionally, the Board has identified a candidate for the post of CEO, subject to the agreement on terms and conditions of service as well as specific performance deliverables.

The Board has approved an innovative leadership and motivational programme at the High Performance Centre in Barbados for senior West Indies players, and a camp for the team at the same venue prior to the start of the Zimbabwe/South Africa tour. However, the Board with the agreement of the West Indies Players’ Association (WIPA) has hired a Security Consultant to report within a week on whether the tour of Zimbabwe should take place. The consultant will look at safety, security and food integrity issues.

The Board agreed to immediate, medium-term and long-term steps for improving the present standard of West Indies Cricket. These include:

Immediate Measures:

1. A significant performance-based evaluation process as part of the new retainer contracts to be agreed with WIPA.

Medium Term Measures:

2. A review of existing territorial cricket development programmes and the development of a uniform region-wide programme incorporating the best practices regionally and internationally.

3. Senior team members will be attached to key regional organisations networked as Friends of West Indies Cricket. This will introduce some of them to the world of work while simultaneously developing their understanding of the challenges facing the Caribbean as well as the positives of regional development.

4. Greater interaction between the Board and players

5. Support for the WICB Academy.

6. An enhanced role of the WICB’s Cricket Committee in this process.

Long Term Measures:

7. Development of a professional environment in which players could better understand and practice their craft.

8. Greater emphasis and programmes from school level in all territories as part of a renewed focus on younger players within a uniform system of leadership and training.