CWI celebrate 90+ years as Test-playing nation

– and 92 years as ICC member

Cricket West Indies (CWI) are looking to continue their contributions to the sport after recently celebrating a few milestones.
This year, Windies cricket will be celebrating 92 years of being an International Cricket Council (ICC) member; but, more importantly, they will also be celebrating 90 years as a Test-playing nation.
The CWI on Thursday sent out a release recognizing this milestone, and added that it was the Board’s aim to further improve on the works they have begun. “Here in the West Indies, we maintain hope that we are on the right path, even much closer to challenge for the World Cup title in England in 2019. “We start this 92nd year with a full summer schedule in the Caribbean, leading to the end of the year in India. All categories of our players and officials, including our umpires, will be fully occupied. This November, we will be the first host of the only stand-alone ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Championship. We continue to build capacity on and off the field”, the official release read.
It continued, “We are now an industry with 177 players and officials employed all year round, along with the hard-working team at the Secretariat. We (are) in partnership with the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, the Coolidge Cricket Ground – home of West Indies.
“So far, we have hosted the fast-bowling camp; Women’s Camp, and the A Team. The venue has also been able to host two back-to-back years of Super50, and we will improve on that facility in time for warm-up matches for the ICC WWT20 in November”.
Digicel and CWI recently severed ties after more than a decade of partnership, and the CWI, in addressing the issue in the release, said, “After 13 years, we close a chapter with Digicel. We thank them for their tremendous support during this stage of our journey, and we wish them well in future endeavours. We make way for new and emerging business partners”.
The release, in closing, read, “To our players, our greatest assets, we will continue to support your efforts, throwing the weight of the most efficient and effective staff available. We therefore wish you all the best as you aim to make your way up the ranking on your various teams.
“We look ahead…92 and more, to continue to propel the game of cricket in the region, not only for economic and social development, but to use it as the catalyst to bring our beautiful island states even closer.”