PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — In a decisive transfer to strengthen the way forward for West Indies cricket, Cricket West Indies (CWI) convened a high-level Expertise Identification Workshop in Trinidad from Could 8–10, drawing collectively its key community of Territorial Expertise Identifiers through the staging of the West Indies Breakout League.
Held in tandem with the developmental event, the three-day workshop was designed to harmonize scouting technique and combine high-performance methodologies throughout the area—laying vital groundwork for aligning regional expertise analysis with the calls for of worldwide cricket.
Strategic alignment with worldwide requirements
The classes have been led by Miles Bascombe, CWI’s Director of Cricket, and included high-impact displays and deep-dive discussions with Senior Males’s Crew Head Coach Daren Sammy, Excessive Efficiency Supervisor Dwain Gill, Senior Expertise Supervisor Jamal Smith, and Efficiency Analyst Avenesh Seetaram.
“It is a nice initiative introduced on by CWI with all of the expertise IDs that we now have across the area,” stated Coach Sammy, who emphasised the significance of context, readability, and consistency in scouting and analysis. “The workshop gave us the chance to point out our Expertise IDs a template that they might mirror of their house territories, relating to planning and tactical elements on the worldwide stage.”
Standardizing expertise analysis
A key aim of the workshop was to set up a standardized participant evaluation mannequin that every one six regional territories can implement. Individuals have been uncovered to the identical knowledge assortment instruments, depth charting techniques, and choice standards utilized by the senior West Indies squad—thus guaranteeing a direct connection between grassroots scouting and elite-level expectations.
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Based on CWI, this initiative types an important a part of its strategic blueprint to raise regional participant growth whereas tightening the bridge between native cricket and the calls for of all three worldwide codecs.
“The workshop’s essential goal is to make sure that the Territorial Expertise Identifiers know the processes that drive choice and, by extension, expertise identification and growth,” stated a CWI spokesperson. “The enter and suggestions from the group was extraordinarily beneficial and supplied a basis for steady collaboration.”
Charting the course again to world dominance
Coach Sammy underscored the pivotal position the expertise identifiers will play within the resurgence of West Indies cricket on the worldwide stage. “We defined the model of cricket we wish to play and the way we’ll use the regional stage as the place to begin to plot our option to the summit of worldwide cricket but once more,” he stated.
“With the experience of Jamal Smith and Avenesh Seetaram, we confirmed the expertise IDs what’s required to be on par with the remainder of the world,” Sammy added. “Over these previous few days, the workshop introduced the chance for the crew to present steerage to the expertise IDs, which was met with nice enthusiasm and keenness.”
The regional eyes on the bottom
The six Territorial Expertise Identifiers in attendance have been:
- Henderson Broomes (Barbados)
- Ramnaresh Sarwan (Guyana)
- Delroy Morgan (Jamaica)
- Samuel Spencer (Leeward Islands)
- Gibran Mohammed (Trinidad & Tobago)
- Craig Emmanuel (Windward Islands)
Their presence, insights, and contributions not solely enriched the workshop but in addition reaffirmed the significance of territorial experience in shaping the subsequent technology of West Indies cricketers.
