West Indies’ Darren Sammy hits a six off India’s Umesh Yadav during their Tri-Nation Series cricket match in Kingston,
Jamaica. Associated Press / Andres Leighton, File
By Azad Ali
A governance report has recommended
Cricket West Indies (CWI)
undertake an immediate reduction in
the size of the board from the original
18 to 12 with a gradual decrease to nine
members.
The Independent Task for Corporate
Governance, headed by Jamaica
businessman and Senator Don Wehby
recently submitted its final 36-page
report to the regional governing body.
One of its recommendations was
that the membership of the board of
directors reflects a wide cross section
of skills and competencies.
With the eventual reduction of directors
to nine, recommendation at least
two of them be women. It also demanded
redefined roles for the president and
vice-president to be more broad-specific
and non-executive.
The report also suggested the establishment
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of a nominations committee
to identify and evaluate potential directors
and to nominate future directors
and committee members while it also
called for the reduction in CWI committee
restructure.
The other objectives of the report
focused primarily on: undertaking a
review of the corporate governance
framework, standards and practices of
CWI and to recommend changes to
“enhance stakeholder trust and ensure
more transparency and accountability
in line with modern best practices for
corporate governance.”
It also noted that reform was needed
to ensure the sustainability of CWI,
highlighting the “need to foster the
rebuilding of trust and a common purpose
between CWI and the other stakeholders,
especially with regional governments.”
The recommendations also included
a comprehensive reform of the governance
structure using key principles of
modern governance to provide greater
accountability and transparency.
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However, ICC Chief Executive,
Manu Sawhney said pushing back
the tournament would help ensure
its quality, since there had been no
women’s cricket played since the global
lockdown of the sport began six
months ago.
He said the decision to move the
ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup is
to give players from every competing
nation the best opportunity to
be ready for the world’s biggest stage
and there is still a global qualifier to
complete to decide the final three
teams.
The CEO said moving the event by
12 months gives all competing teams
the chance to play a sufficient level of
cricket ahead of both the qualification
event and leading into a Cricket
World Cup so the integrity of the
tournament is maintained.
Five teams- host New Zealand and
the top four in the ICC Women’s
Championship of Australia, England,
South Africa and India- have already
qualified for the event.
bados recently.
“I think we went to England not
to win the series but to defend the
Wisden Trophy and it showed in the
planning,” he added.
Sir Andy also criticized the strategy
by the West Indies seamers, contending
they were too predictable
and too often allowed the English
batsmen to dictate matters.
The 69-year-old former fast bowler
said not enough short balls were
used against some batsmen who
were clearly uncomfortable with that
length, and this again reflected the
lack of strategic planning.
as saying by Cricbuzz. The 2020 CPL
got underway in Trinidad and Tobago
on Tuesday.
“Anybody who’s been at home in
the lockdown all these months would
not have done justice to themselves if
they didn’t glean over things,” Sammy
added.
“I have not retired. I have not closed
that door; and, if I take care of what I
have to do for St. Lucia and get us to
the playoffs, along with my own very
good performances, that will certainly
make selectors take notice of it,” the
two-time T20 World Cup-winning captain
continued.
In August 2016, Sammy was dropped
as T20I captain and also didn’t find a
place in the team, the Times said.
It said he was named in a World XI side
to play three T20Is against Pakistan in
the 2017 Independence Cup in Lahore.
However, injuries and disagreements
with the erstwhile Dave Cameron
regime at West Indies Cricket Board
also affected his chances of making a
comeback to international cricket, the
Times said.
“I’m actually just going into this
tournament to do better for myself and
St. Lucia,” Sammy said. “That is the
focus this year; and, if I do well at that,
it will raise a few eyebrows as well for
other things.”
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West Indies cricket legend, Andy
Roberts. Associated Press / Andres
Leighton
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