Cricket West Indies (CWI) has marked a groundbreaking milestone by awarding year-long annual contracts to 14 girls gamers throughout the area.
This is a big step ahead in CWI’s strategic dedication to elite and high-performance cricket and indicators a continued funding within the development of the ladies’s sport within the Caribbean. It brings the full variety of contracted regional gamers to 104 for the 12 months and 164 in complete, together with senior and academy gamers.
Trinidad and Tobago’s 21-year-old Shalini Samaroo, a right-arm off-break bowler and left-hand batswoman; 19- year-old KD Jazz Mitchell, a right-arm bowler and batter; and 27-year-old Reniece Boyce, an expertise West Indies wicketkeeper/batter, are among the many girls contracted.
CWI Director of Cricket, Miles Bascombe, mentioned: “Awarding contracts to those gifted feminine gamers underscores CWI’s dedication to advancing cricket within the area. We’re extraordinarily happy with the Maroon Warriors, who’re on their manner again from a formidable semifinal exhibiting on the Girls’s T20 World Cup. The one manner to make sure that West Indies groups, each women and men, have constant showings on the worldwide stage is to make sure the event and development on the regional stage. CWI is devoted to creating this additional funding in our regional expertise and constructing a robust basis for future success, which is in keeping with our strategic plan.”
He added, “These contracts reinforce CWI’s purpose of supporting gamers as they progress alongside the pathway to elite efficiency, making a sustainable pipeline of expertise that may carry out on the worldwide stage. Alongside the feminine contracts, CWI has additionally renewed annual contracts for 90 male gamers throughout six territories, sustaining its dedication to constructing regional power throughout each males’s and ladies’s cricket.”
