Cricket West Indies (CWI) has unveiled its checklist of centrally contracted female and male gamers for the upcoming 2023-24 season.
These picks have been made primarily based on suggestions from choice panels and subsequent approval by the board of administrators.
The roster consists of 14 male gamers and 15 feminine gamers, chosen totally on their efficiency in the course of the 2022 to 2023 analysis interval. Notably, 4 male gamers, specifically left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie, right-handed batter Keacy Carty, and left-handed batters Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Alick Athanaze, have obtained their first-ever central contracts.
In a big growth, all-rounders Zaida James and Sheneta Grimmond have been awarded their maiden contracts for the West Indies Ladies’s staff.
Three contracted male gamers have declined the brand new contract presents
Nevertheless, CWI Media confirmed that three contracted male gamers have declined the brand new contract presents. These gamers embrace former West Indies captains Jason Holder and Nicholas Pooran, together with all-rounder Kyle Mayers, who was lately changed as vice-captain of the West Indies T20 Worldwide staff by Shai Hope.
It was talked about that the trio confirmed their availability for all West Indies T20 Internationals in the course of the contract 12 months with out offering additional rationalization.
Along with these developments, a number of gamers from the 2022-23 checklist didn’t obtain new contracts, together with Jermaine Blackwood, Nkrumah Bonner, Obed McCoy, Odean Smith, and Hayden Walsh Jr.
West Indies Males’s Staff head selector Desmond Haynes defined the cautious deliberation behind the choice of contracted gamers. He emphasised the staff’s give attention to getting ready for a busy 12 months of cricket throughout all codecs, with a watch on the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2024, away Check Collection in Australia and England, and constructing a robust nucleus of gamers for the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup 2027 within the 50-over format.
Creating youthful gamers to drive West Indies cricket ahead
The contracted West Indies Males’s gamers for the 2023-24 season are: Alick Athanaze, Kraigg Brathwaite, Keacy Carty, Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Joshua Da Silva, Shai Hope, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Brandon King, Gudakesh Motie, Rovman Powell, Kemar Roach, Jayden Seales, and Romario Shepherd.
Alternatively, the contracted West Indies Ladies’s Staff gamers embrace: Aaliyah Alleyne, Shemaine Campbelle, Shamilia Connell, Afy Fletcher, Cherry-Ann Fraser, Shabika Gajnabi, Jannillea Glasgow, Sheneta Grimmond, Chinelle Henry, Zaida James, Mandy Mangru, Hayley Matthews, Karishma Ramharack, Stafanie Taylor, and Rashada Williams.
Ann Browne-John, lead selector for the West Indies Ladies’s Staff, highlighted the give attention to creating youthful gamers to drive West Indies cricket ahead, with the goal of getting ready them for high-profile bilateral sequence and main world occasions sooner or later.
