Mohammed returns as Cricket President with bright 2012 in prospect!
There was only one change to the new Board with McTair James, who plays for the New Testament Church of God team, being elected to the position of Assistant Treasurer.
Also returned to the board were Ivor Frazer as Vice President, Dharmendra Paul as Treasurer, Sachkia Barnes as Secretary and Daniel Singh as Media Officer. Faustina Baisden was voted back as Assistant Secretary and both Leighton Wright and Andreas Quow retained their positions as general board members.
According to Mohammed, 2011 had started full of expectation with the renovations to the Greenlands Recreation Ground being completed, but that failed to materialize despite the Cricket Association receiving reassurances that it would be available for use.
By all accounts now the project is once again on the back burner even though the new Government has pledged it will be completed.The good news for cricket was that a 2012 season will take place on Virgin Gorda with a proposed start date as early as the first week of March.
Mohammed assured the assembled crowd comprising of representatives from seven clubs that a lot of work had been going on behind the scenes to get cricket back to its rightful place on the sporting calendar and also said that Junior Cricket Development was going well, with a big push expected during the year.
The Scotia Bank Kiddy Cricket Programme and the Digicel Grassroots Programme are WICB Directives with Kiddy Cricket aimed at 7 – 11 year olds and the Grassroots Programme targeted 11-17 year olds.
The National Team had participated in the Leewards/ Nagico one-day competition and although results had not been great there were indications that the VI had some good talent.
With a sustained domestic season containing more cricket, those performances would only get better.
More involvement at the LICA Board level had been achieved with regular attendance at LICA meetings and assurances given that programmes within the VI, including assistance from the WICB on ground maintenance would be supported.
Mention was also made of Daniel Singh’s achievement of becoming a qualified Umpire and the formation of an Umpires and Scorers Association to further develop the skill levels in the Territory.
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