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Cricket West Indies (CWI) president Kishore Shallow has revealed that Ann Browne-John is still part of the selection process for the women’s team. In July, CWI had announced the conclusion of the contracts of Browne-John and Desmond Haynes as lead selectors for the women’s and men’s senior team programmes. Since then, CWI has adopted a new selection structure that has eliminated lead selectors and in which the head coach is responsible for the final selection of the team.
In a statement at the time, CWI said: “While Dr Haynes and Mrs Browne-John will no longer serve as lead selectors, Cricket West Indies is confident that their contributions in other areas to the sport will not waiver and will seek to utilise their expertise.” And speaking on the Mason and Guest cricket radio show on the Voice of Barbados, Tuesday, Shallow said Browne-John was still involved. “She is one of the talent pathway managers which help to identify the talent for women,” he said.
“We have identified a male as well, I don’t think they have reached an agreement yet.” In outlining the new selection policy in September, Director of Cricket Miles Bascombe said that Talent Managers and Talent IDs would be used to assist the head coach. But outside of Shallow’s confirmation of Bronwe-John’s involvement, CWI has not yet announced the appointments for these positions for either the men’s or women’s set-ups.
And speaking on the current state of the women’s game in the Caribbean, Shallow acknowledged that much needed to be done. “The women need a lot of work because a lot of the issues you see internationally are because of our regional and national structure,” he said. “.
..Players are not competitive when they play regional cricket.
The gap is so wide between regional and international cricket...
We have to up-skill our regional players. Shallow added that, “we have to start nationally, getting more players across the different territories to play cricket at the junior stage..
.and that is really when you are going to see a transformation.” Commenting on the challenges the WI senior women’s team faced in their One-Day International series in India, the team’s coach, Australian Shane Deitz said after the second ODI which was lost by 115 runs: “We’re never going to be a successful team unless we’ve got 11, 15, really 20 world class players, so how we do that is what we’re looking at.
There’s a lot of things we need to do better back in the Caribbean - regional cricket, consistent 12-month programmes for players in the squad, outside the squad, so there’s obviously a lot of work to do,”.
