ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) di­rec­tor of crick­et, Miles Bas­combe re­vealed that in­com­ing West In­dies se­lec­tors on both the men’s and women’s side will be work­ing un­der a sys­tem of “new and im­proved process­es”.

Bas­combe, a for­mer Com­bined Cam­pus­es & Col­leges and Wind­ward Is­lands bats­man, made the dis­clo­sure in a news re­lease thank­ing for­mer West In­dies cap­tains, Desmond Haynes and Ann Browne-John for their tenures as lead se­lec­tors on the men’s and women’s side, re­spec­tive­ly.

The con­tracts of Haynes, who was ap­point­ed to the role in Jan­u­ary 2022, and Browne-John, who was ap­point­ed in Oc­to­ber 2019, end­ed on June 30.

CWI in­di­cat­ed in a news re­lease on Thurs­day that the or­gan­i­sa­tion will “con­tin­ue its quest for ex­cel­lence in the se­lec­tion sys­tem with on­go­ing re­struc­tur­ing ef­forts, in­clud­ing the im­ple­men­ta­tion of new and im­proved process­es”.

“We are com­mit­ted to a se­lec­tion sys­tem that re­flects the cur­rent needs of our crick­et­ing land­scape, which will give us the best chance to iden­ti­fy and de­vel­op tal­ent across all lev­els,” Bas­combe added in the news re­lease.

“The new sys­tem will have an in­creased fo­cus on scout­ing, depth chart­ing, align­ment with crick­et strat­e­gy, and hu­man re­source man­age­ment. These de­ci­sions were tak­en fol­low­ing care­ful con­sid­er­a­tions by the Crick­et De­vel­op­ment and Per­for­mance Com­mit­tee.”

The news re­lease stat­ed that the new sys­tem will take ef­fect fol­low­ing rat­i­fi­ca­tion at the CWI di­rec­tors’ meet­ing that will take place lat­er this month.

In thank­ing Haynes and Browne-John, Bas­combe said the two for­mer West In­dies cap­tain made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the sport in the Caribbean dur­ing their tenures.

“We ex­tend our heart­felt thanks to Dr Haynes and Mrs Browne-John for their ded­i­cat­ed ser­vice as lead se­lec­tors,” Bas­combe. “Their in­sights and com­mit­ment have been in­valu­able to our crick­et­ing en­deav­ours.”

The news re­lease not­ed that the West In­dies men’s and women’s teams have shown im­prove­ments in the world rank­ings dur­ing the tenue of Haynes and Browne-John and “CWI ac­knowl­edges the piv­otal roles that both in­di­vid­u­als have played in this achieve­ment”.

CMC