ST. JOHN’S, An­tigua— Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has an­nounced via a press re­lease that in­cum­bent pres­i­dent Dr. Kishore Shal­low and in­cum­bent vice pres­i­dent Az­im Bas­sarath have both been nom­i­nat­ed un­op­posed to serve a sec­ond term as pres­i­dent and vice pres­i­dent, re­spec­tive­ly.

The term will of­fi­cial­ly com­mence on March 29, 2025, at CWI’s An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM) in An­tigua, where the or­gan­i­sa­tion is head­quar­tered.

This would mark the sec­ond suc­ces­sive elec­tion in which Pres­i­dent Shal­low would be elect­ed un­op­posed, re­flect­ing the con­fi­dence and sup­port he con­tin­ues to re­ceive from the crick­et­ing fra­ter­ni­ty across the re­gion.

His nom­i­na­tion was put for­ward by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board (TTCB) and sec­ond­ed by the Lee­ward Is­lands Crick­et Board (LICB).

Vice Pres­i­dent Bas­sarath’s nom­i­na­tion came from the Ja­maica Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (JCA) and was sec­ond­ed by the Wind­ward Is­lands Crick­et Board (WICB), re­in­forc­ing the broad-based sup­port for the lead­er­ship team as they con­tin­ue to dri­ve the de­vel­op­ment and progress of West In­dies crick­et.

Pres­i­dent Shal­low ex­pressed grat­i­tude for the con­tin­ued trust placed in him, stat­ing, “Be­ing un­op­posed for a sec­ond term is a strong en­dorse­ment of the lead­er­ship and di­rec­tion we have tak­en at Crick­et West In­dies. It speaks to the lev­el of con­fi­dence in our vi­sion and the progress we have made in sta­bil­is­ing and ad­vanc­ing West In­dies crick­et.”

Ac­cord­ing to the re­lease, Shal­low said, “Now, we must build on that progress, stay­ing fo­cused on the task at hand and not al­low­ing our­selves to be dis­tract­ed from our ul­ti­mate goal. We are one in pur­pose, work­ing to­geth­er for the bet­ter­ment of West In­dies crick­et.”

“I un­der­stand full well the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty that comes with this po­si­tion, and I re­main com­mit­ted to up­hold­ing the high­est stan­dards of pro­fes­sion­al­ism and good gov­er­nance. I want to sin­cere­ly thank the Trinidad & To­ba­go Crick­et Board and the Lee­ward Is­lands Crick­et Board for their nom­i­na­tion, as well as all our stake­hold­ers for their con­tin­ued sup­port. It is tru­ly hum­bling to serve in this ca­pac­i­ty, and I do not take this trust light­ly.”

Mean­while, Bas­sarath echoed sim­i­lar sen­ti­ments, say­ing, “It would be a priv­i­lege to con­tin­ue serv­ing as Vice Pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies. The pas­sion and ded­i­ca­tion of every­one in­volved in our crick­et­ing ecosys­tem in­spire me every day.”

The re­lease added, “As we seek to em­bark on a new term, I am com­mit­ted to en­sur­ing we con­tin­ue to make de­ci­sions that ben­e­fit our play­ers, fans, and the fu­ture of West In­dies crick­et. I thank all our mem­bers for their con­fi­dence, and I look for­ward to work­ing to­geth­er for the bet­ter­ment of the game.”

Pres­i­dent Shal­low and Vice Pres­i­dent Bas­sarath’s un­op­posed nom­i­na­tions were con­firmed on Feb­ru­ary 27, 2025, at the close of the nom­i­na­tion pe­ri­od.