WICB needs $60 million for cricket

West Indies cricket needs about $60 million for development within the next three to five years.

According to chief executive officer of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Gregory Shillingford, the board recently reviewed different systems relating to cricket and were in the process of completing a strategic plan document.

"Once the strategic plan has been distributed we will then begin to restructure our organisation to deliver the services that are necessary for growing West Indies cricket."

Shillingford said the WICB had to deliver services that would improve coaching skills at all levels, from primary to that of the West Indies `A' team.

"We also have to look at fitness, which is an integral part of cricket; we have to look at promoting cricket among the territories (since) fewer young people are playing cricket.

"We have to get a lot more people playing cricket from which to be able to get the talent that is competitive at the highest level. "We have to encourage the clubs and the territories to strengthen their structure of cricket," Shillingford told a radio audience on a Voice of Barbados discussion programme from his office in Antigua.