BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – In a decisive present of confidence, attorney-at-law Calvin Hope was elected the twelfth president of the Barbados Cricket Affiliation (BCA) on Tuesday evening, securing a landslide victory at Kensington Oval.
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The 68-year-old outgoing vice-president, who has spent practically three many years in BCA administration, garnered 158 votes—comfortably forward of former chairman of selectors Henderson Broomes (68 votes), ex-West Indies opener Philo Wallace (57), and former BCA vice-president Jeff Broomes (13).
Hope succeeds Condé Riley, who has led the affiliation since 2017, and can serve a two-year time period from 2025 to 2027.
Different election outcomes noticed attorney-at-law Gregory Nicholls returned as secretary with 157 votes to Pleasure-Ann Jones’s 125, whereas Carlos Brathwaite (185), Henderson Wallace (142), and Winston Haynes (119) secured positions on the board of administrators.
A journey to the highest
Hope’s rise is the fruits of a 28-year journey in cricket administration, starting together with his appointment as a BCA director in 1997. He has challenged for the presidency 3 times earlier than—falling brief towards Riley in 2023 and shedding earlier races to Joel “Massive Chook” Garner in 2007 and 2011.
In his victory speech, Hope expressed each gratitude and resolve.
“I’m elated, but additionally humbled to be given the chance to serve on this capability. It’s certainly an honour. There’s a lot to be finished, and I do pledge to the members that I’ll do my greatest and pull the board collectively in unity.”
Strategic reset and industrial imaginative and prescient
The brand new president mentioned his quick precedence is unity—a theme he harassed repeatedly—alongside modernizing operations and strengthening the affiliation’s monetary base.
“We have to do some resetting, however we’ve got to work on the strategic plan for our cricket. We might overview the secretariat, making it extra responsive. Now we have to have a look at the industrial framework—how will we arrange a industrial framework to fund cricket in Barbados in a really substantial means and for years to return.”
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Bridging the event hole
Hope recognized a troubling hole in alternatives for gamers transitioning from the under-19 stage to the senior Barbados workforce. His plan contains extra abroad excursions, further fixtures outdoors conventional schedules, and intensified coaching and training packages.
“We need to present alternatives for the youth to proceed taking part in extra aggressive cricket, and most of all, to up the ante for the coaching and motivation of those gamers.”
He additionally intends to attract on the experience of Barbados cricket legends, naming The Most Honourable Desmond Haynes and Joel Garner as sources the BCA will faucet into.
A spot for ladies’s cricket
Hope emphasised that the ladies’s sport will stay “very excessive on the agenda.”
“We additionally have to get a proper set-up within the faculty system for the feminine facet of our cricket. That may be a precedence.”
Stepping onto the regional stage
As BCA president, Hope will routinely sit down on the Cricket West Indies (CWI) board beneath President Kishore Shallow. Nonetheless, he declined to touch upon CWI’s high-level emergency summit held August 10–11 in Trinidad and Tobago, saying he had been totally targeted on his election marketing campaign.
Following in historic footsteps
Hope joins an illustrious checklist of previous BCA presidents, from Lt Colonel William Bowring (1932–1943) to his quick predecessor Condé Riley (2017–2025), inheriting the legacy and challenges of main Barbados cricket into a brand new period.
