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West Indies cricket has to change, says board
By IANS,
Apr 25, 2007 - 12:14:47 PM
Bridgetown -, April 25 - It cannot be business as usual, the West Indies Cricket Board says, as it takes a fresh approach to a successor to Brian Lara after he quit as captain following the World Cup debacle.
Bruce Aanensen, the board's newly appointed chief executive, told CMC Sports that the board had met the selection committee and outlined their expectations.
'We had agreed and discussed ... that West Indies cricket at this point cannot be business as usual and the incremental changes, which have not worked and do not seem as if they will work, cannot be the way forward and that some hard decisions may have to be made in terms of how we do business going forward,' he said.
'We just wanted to brief the selectors in the composition of the team and in the decision to choose a captain - what we were looking for, what kind of criteria we would like them to use for the selection of the captain and when they give us recommendations for the captain we need to know exactly what drove that decision.
'We need to know what they see as the strengths of the individual, why they recommended them and if there are any areas were improvement is required, so we can sit down with the person who is eventually appointed to go through that process and agree on a formula for helping them to improve in their weak areas,' he said.
Lara, one of the world's most successful cricketers who led the West Indies into the World Cup, has retired from international cricket.
Since then, vice captain Ramnaresh Sarwan has been widely tipped to take over as captain though Chris Gayle and Daren Ganga are also among the choices.
Aanensen said the selectors had made their nomination to the board members who were in the process of ratifying the recommendations.
'One of the things we are looking for is leadership skills ... we are also looking a guy who will command the respect of the other players on the team, not somebody who will have any influence on the younger players in particular,' he said.
'The selectors have chosen somebody ... I'm not a liberty to divulge that name at the moment because we have to get the approval of the WICB for the nomination before any disclosure can be made.
'The selectors said there were three people they were looking at. They had their meeting, we did not attend their meeting, we allowed them the privacy to discuss matters as they see fit.
'They have come up with one of the three ... hopefully we can announce [him] within the next two days.'
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