No changes in CWI selection policy until after World Cup - Grave
CRICKET WEST Indies (CWI) chief executive officer Johnny Grave said the West Indies selection panels and systems are currently under review and new policy and personnel will be revealed after July 1 this year.
Grave said there were no immediate plans to replace Barbados-born England batsman Roland Butcher on the men’s selection panel.
“The selection policy and the selection panel are currently under review by director of cricket, Miles Bascombe, and I don’t expect that report to go to our board before announcing our 15-member squad for the [ICC Men’s Twenty20] World Cup,” Grave said during a radio interview with i95 FM.
“Obviously, [head coach] Daren Sammy and [incumbent T20I captain] Rovman Powell will have a view about the players they want to select, and Desmond Haynes will obviously lead that process as the lead selector.”
He added: “The current structure, having had such a successful year last year, we beat South Africa in South Africa, and we followed it up with series wins against India and England, but obviously we lost the series in Australia 2-1, but we won the last game.
“Hopefully, that means we will have a settled squad barring injuries leading into the World Cup, so the changes that we expect to make in terms of selection policy and selection panel won’t happen until after the World Cup.”
The contract for Haynes expires at the end of June this year, and Grave said he hoped to have a new selection system in place at that time, including a new selection policy and new selection panels.