ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Newly appointed Director of Cricket, Miles Bascombe, mentioned “bold plans and applications” had been within the pipeline to invigorate girls’s cricket after overseeing the launch of the inaugural Girls’s Cricket Academy.
In a Thursday assertion, Cricket West Indies mentioned the academy bought underway final month at Coolidge Cricket Floor right here, terming the event “a big milestone for girls’s cricket within the area.”
The regional governing physique mentioned the primary objective of the academy can be the “nurturing and creating” of expertise throughout the area.
“This transfer aligns with Cricket West Indies’ dedication to fostering the expansion of ladies’s cricket and investing within the growth of gamers in any respect ranges,” Bascombe mentioned.
“Now we have bold plans and applications to make sure sustained progress in girls’s cricket.
“Our funding in expertise growth and training will create a sturdy basis for the longer term success of our girls cricketers.
“Our method is to hunt to degree the enjoying area incrementally, and we’ve began this course of in earnest in different key areas.”
Solely not too long ago, CWI introduced important will increase in prize cash for the ladies’s tournaments as a part of a payout enhance for all regional competitions.
Moreover, the Dr. Kishore Shallow-led administration moved to align the ladies’s worldwide journey with their male counterparts, instituting a brand new coverage to see the facet flying enterprise class for long-haul journeys.
Bascombe, who changed Jimmy Adams as director of cricket final June, mentioned the brand new developments had come from direct discussions with girls’s gamers at a current assembly.
“Now we have had a fruitful engagement with our girls gamers throughout our not too long ago held West Indies Cricket Gamers’ Summit in Barbados and have thought-about their views,” mentioned the 37-year-old former Windward Islands batsman, who performed a single Twenty20 Worldwide 12 years in the past.
“Such discussions have knowledgeable the precedence areas for girls’s cricket, notably the event pathway.”
Pointing to the West Indies Girls’s A-team tour of Pakistan, which bowls off subsequent week in Lahore, Bascombe mentioned CWI was firmly focussed on persevering with to foster such growth initiatives.
“The trajectory of ladies’s cricket may be very pleasing, and that’s the reason we’re presently supporting the Girls’s ‘A’ Workforce tour to Pakistan,” he mentioned.
“Giving our gamers worldwide alternatives helps to strengthen our second line and additional enhances our aggressive probabilities.”
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