DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – For­mer lead se­lec­tor for the West In­dies se­nior men’s team, Desmond Haynes, will serve on the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil’s (ICC) men’s crick­et com­mit­tee.

Haynes has been ap­point­ed to the com­mit­tee along with for­mer Afghanistan play­er Hamid Has­san, South Africa’s Test and ODI skip­per Tem­ba Bavu­ma, In­dia’s VVS Lax­man and ex-Eng­land bat­ter Jonathan Trott.

For­mer In­dia cap­tain Sourav Gan­gu­ly, who was first ap­point­ed as the com­mit­tee’s chair in 2021, has been re-ap­point­ed as the chair­per­son.

The 69-year-old Haynes served as the lead se­lec­tor for the men’s team from Jan­u­ary 2022 to June 2024.

He joins the com­mit­tee fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of the tenure of for­mer West In­dies all-rounder and re­spect­ed crick­et ad­min­is­tra­tor Roger Harp­er.

The ap­point­ment main­tains the strong West In­dies pres­ence on this pres­ti­gious com­mit­tee and re­flects the con­tin­u­ing in­flu­ence of Caribbean crick­et at the high­est lev­els of the sport’s gov­er­nance.

Re­gard­ed as one of the finest open­ing bats­men, Haynes played 238 One Day In­ter­na­tion­als and 116 Test match­es for the West In­dies, scor­ing 16 135 runs.

Mean­while, the new ICC women’s crick­et com­mit­tee com­pris­es for­mer New Zealand off-spin­ner Cather­ine Camp­bell as its chair­per­son, with for­mer Aus­tralian play­er Avril Fa­hey and Crick­et South Africa’s (CSA) Pho­let­si Mose­ki as the oth­er mem­bers.

CMC