JOHN’S, Antigua – In a major development for cricket within the Caribbean, Cricket West Indies (CWI) has awarded its first-ever annual contracts to 14 feminine gamers from throughout the area.
This pioneering initiative underscores CWI’s dedication to fostering girls’s cricket, with year-long help designed to construct the game’s depth and lift the usual of the West Indies girls’s groups on the worldwide stage. This enlargement brings the whole variety of contracted West Indies gamers to 104, strengthening CWI’s complete growth efforts.
Miles Bascombe, CWI’s Director of Cricket, praised the initiative as a significant step for regional cricket: “Providing year-long contracts to those exceptional gamers is a testomony to our long-term imaginative and prescient. The latest performances of our Maroon Warriors have proven the expertise now we have, and we’re dedicated to constructing on this potential for better consistency and success in international tournaments,” Bascombe acknowledged.
CWI’s resolution to contract feminine gamers for the 12 months not solely gives stability but additionally permits gamers to focus totally on their craft. This initiative displays CWI’s holistic strategy to fostering expertise in any respect ranges and creating a sturdy coaching pipeline to form world-class gamers. These contracts provide essential sources and structured steerage, establishing a transparent path for athletes from the grassroots to skilled excellence.
CWI has reaffirmed its funding in males’s cricket
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The contracted gamers for 2024/25 are: Barbados: Shanika Bruce, Alisa Scantlebury; Guyana: Shenetta Grimmond, Plaffiana Millington, Mandy Mangru; Jamaica: Celina Whyte; Trinidad & Tobago: Shalini Samaroo, KD Jazz Mitchell, Reniece Boyce; Leeward Islands: Melicia Clarke, Kimberley Anthony; Windward Islands: Earnisha Fontaine, Abini St. Jean, Nerissa Crafton.
Past girls’s contracts, CWI has reaffirmed its investment in men’s cricket by renewing 90 contracts throughout six territories, making certain each female and male gamers profit from a supportive construction that cultivates high-performance athletes throughout the board.
“This year-long dedication to our feminine gamers highlights our dedication to inclusivity and excellence in cricket,” mentioned Bascombe. “These contracts present the construction and help important for our gamers to shine on the world stage, positioning West Indies cricket for sustained success throughout all codecs.”
With this enlargement, CWI goals to additional cement its position as a frontrunner in creating regional expertise, laying the groundwork for future success and rising the West Indies’ presence on the worldwide cricket scene.
