The plan by Rickey Skerritt, President of Cricket West Indies (CWI), to involve regional governments in the grassroots development of cricket has received approval from a CWI affiliate.
Skerritt, on the occasion to acknowledge his first year at the helm of managing the board’s affairs, indicated that he had already set a plan in motion to enlist the support of sports ministries across the region.
“I’ve written to every Minister of Sports across the region and I have proposed a deal with them where we no longer charge them big money to get cricket which used to be before my time.