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Record sales for T20 in Florida
By Azad Ali
Cricket West Indies (CWI) has
reported record sales for the upcoming
two Twenty20 Internationals between
the West Indies and India, which will
be played in the USA.
The two MyTeam11 Twenty20
Internationals will be played on
Aug. 3 and 4 at the Broward County
Stadium in Lauderhill, located in
Florida.
CWI reported record gross ticket
sales for a singular West Indies match
over a 24-hour sale period recently.
Commercial and Marketing
Director at Cricket West Indies (CWI)
Dominic Warne said, “nearly all our
premium seats and mound access
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seats have been sold with over 8,000
tickets sold for the two Twenty20s in
just over 24 hours.”
“Such has been the demand that
we’re releasing almost another 5,000
tickets for each day’s play, with 4,600
additional covered and uncovered
bleacher seats will go on sale this
week,” he said.
CWI reform
task force
President of Cricket West Indies,
Ricky Skerritt. Cricket West Indies
University of the West Indies Vice-
Chancellor, Hilary Beckles.
Photo by George Alleyne
By Azad Ali
West Indies legend Clive Lloyd is
calling for a cricket symposium to
discuss the current state of the game
in the region and determine a way
forward.
The former West Indies captain,
speaking to local reporters after
the World Cup said it is critical for
Cricket West Indies (CWI) to get all the
stakeholders involved in these sessions,
get their input and use the information
collected in these forums.
He said there is a need to have the
board set up a cricket symposium and
get the major stakeholders who can
make a difference on board.
“We need to sit down and plan properly
what we want to do at the youth level,
which we need to do with our A team
and the senior team,” he added.
Lloyd, who was one of the most
successful West Indies captains ever
and led the team to two World Cups
victories in 1975 and l979 added that he
had participated in a cricket symposium
many years ago with former board
president Teddy Griffith, but noted the
report compiled from that exercise
was probably somewhere at the board’s
office collecting dust since none of
the recommendations has ever been
implemented.
Speaking about the current state of
the game, Lloyd said all hands must be
on deck for the West Indies to get back
to where it once was.
He said the talent is there but it was
also all about how young handle it.
West Indies put up a poor showing at
the recently concluded ICC World Cup,
winning two of their eight matches.
Former West Indies Captain, Clive
Lloyd. Associated Press / Matt Dunham
By Azad Ali
Cricket West Indies (CWI)
has announced the formation
of a Governance Task Force and a
Selection Task Force to help in its
reform.
A five-member Governance Task
Force and the six-member Selection
Task Force have been appointed to
review and implement reform of the
organization’s governance and the
outdated system of team selections.
Jamaican businessman and
Senator, Don Wehby has been
selected to chair the Governance
Task Force, which also includes Sir
Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of
UWI; Charles Wilkin QC of St. Kitts
& Nevis; Jamaican entrepreneur,
OK Melhado and former Trinidad
and West Indies cricketer, Deryck
Murray.
CWI President, Ricky Skerritt said
the composition of the committees
include variety of stakeholder
interests. He said more than 50 percent
of the total committee membership
were independent of the traditional
cricket fraternity, originating from
11 different Caribbean countries.
Skerritt said there remains one
more task force to be assembled later
this year.
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