For­mer West In­dies crick­eters Ramnaresh Sar­wan and Phi­lo Wal­lace have been named on a six-mem­ber Task Force to look in­to se­lec­tion sys­tems for Crick­et West In­dies (CWI).

Guardian Me­dia Sports un­der­stands that the duo will join vice-pres­i­dent of CWI Dr Kishore Shal­low, di­rec­tor of crick­et Jim­my Adams, CWI di­rec­tor Enoch Lewis and crick­eter Miles Bas­combe on the com­mit­tee.

Last week, CEO of CWI John­ny Graves said that a Task Force was put in place to deal with se­lec­tion sys­tems. The last Windies se­lec­tion pan­el head­ed by Court­ney Browne was axed and they were in­formed that they could re-ap­ply for their po­si­tions af­ter the Task Force made rec­om­men­da­tions to the board. Browne, Travis Dowl­in, Lock­hart Se­bastien and El­dine Bap­tiste were re­moved. Since then Browne and Bap­tiste have had their lawyers com­mu­ni­cate with the board, stat­ing that they were il­le­gal­ly re­moved.

Graves said: "At the point in time di­rec­tor of crick­et Jim­my Adams and my­self called the se­lec­tors and spoke to them, let­ting them know that af­ter the rec­om­men­da­tion from the Task Force come in, they are free to re-ap­ply for their po­si­tions or any oth­er po­si­tions that will be ad­ver­tised. We re­in­forced to them that we ex­pect­ed and want­ed them to ap­ply for fu­ture po­si­tions. At the end of this pe­ri­od, the find­ings of the Task Force will be made known to us and we will ad­ver­tise the po­si­tions and they are free to reap­ply.

"This Task Force was not put in place to get rid of any­body. It was put to­geth­er to bring our struc­ture in line with in­ter­na­tion­al stan­dards, for ex­am­ple in terms of num­bers of se­lec­tors they may want to look at more than four peo­ple choos­ing teams across the board. We have three dis­tinct cat­e­gories, the men's se­nior teams, the women's team and al­so the youth teams.

"In my opin­ion that is an aw­ful lot of crick­et for four se­lec­tors to be look­ing at and se­lect­ing. Un­der the in­ter­im arrange­ment we have put in place, we have now giv­en the head coach and cap­tain vot­ing rights. Whether the Task Force agrees with this or not, we wait to see. Be­fore the se­lec­tors were trav­el­ling to the match­es. We have stopped that be­cause it costs a sig­nif­i­cant amount of mon­ey. Now with the cap­tain and coach hav­ing vot­ing rights, we have stopped se­lec­tors from trav­el­ling."