Dr. Kishore Shal­low has been re­turned as pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI), with Az­im Bas­sarath con­tin­u­ing as vice pres­i­dent, fol­low­ing the an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing (AGM) held on Sat­ur­day at the St James Club in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da. Both were un­op­posed and will be­gin a new three-year term, ef­fec­tive im­me­di­ate­ly.

In a unan­i­mous vote, all ter­ri­to­ries sup­port­ed Shal­low, se­cur­ing 12 votes, while Bas­sarath re­ceived the back­ing of four ter­ri­to­ries, amass­ing eight votes.

This marks the first three-year term un­der CWI’s re­cent­ly im­ple­ment­ed gov­er­nance re­form, which in­tro­duces term lim­its to en­hance ac­count­abil­i­ty and long-term sus­tain­abil­i­ty. The AGM was at­tend­ed by all mem­ber share­hold­ers rep­re­sent­ing Bar­ba­dos, Lee­ward Is­lands, Ja­maica, Guyana, Wind­ward Is­lands, and T&T.

Dr Shal­low, a Vin­cent­ian IT and busi­ness con­sul­tant, first took of­fice in 2023 and has been at the fore­front of trans­for­ma­tion­al changes with­in CWI, fo­cus­ing on gov­er­nance mod­ern­iza­tion, high-per­for­mance de­vel­op­ment, and strength­en­ing stake­hold­er en­gage­ment. Up­on his con­fir­ma­tion, he ex­pressed grat­i­tude for the con­tin­ued con­fi­dence placed in his lead­er­ship and reaf­firmed his com­mit­ment to progress.

“I am tru­ly hon­ored by the trust shown in me to con­tin­ue lead­ing Crick­et West In­dies. This con­fi­dence sug­gests that the share­hold­ers ap­pre­ci­ate that there is a clear di­rec­tion of progress—one that re­spects and val­ues each and every stake­hold­er and pro­motes one­ness in our ap­proach. Crit­i­cal­ly, we must con­tin­ue on this tra­jec­to­ry and build on the foun­da­tion. It’s a new day for Crick­et West In­dies, and to­geth­er, we will push our crick­et for­ward,” Dr Shal­low said.

Vice pres­i­dent Bas­sarath, who al­so serves as pres­i­dent of the T&T Crick­et Board, pledged his con­tin­ued sup­port to Shal­low and the broad­er CWI lead­er­ship team as they em­bark on this new term.

“I re­main ful­ly com­mit­ted to sup­port­ing Dr. Shal­low and work­ing along­side the en­tire Board of Di­rec­tors as we en­ter this new pe­ri­od for West In­dies crick­et. There is im­por­tant work ahead, and we will con­tin­ue to strength­en the game at all lev­els for the ben­e­fit of our play­ers, fans, and stake­hold­ers,” Bas­sarath said.

(Cour­tesy CWI Me­dia)