Ricky Skerritt appointed to ICC Governance Working Group

Published 28 October 2019

Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source

Ricky Skerritt appointed to ICC Governance Working Group

Basseterre, St Kitts, October 26, 2019 – President of Cricket West Indies (CWI) Mr Ricky Skerritt has been appointed a member of the newly formed International Cricket Council (ICC) Governance Working Group, set out to consider the future governance structure of the ICC.

The appointment was made by ICC Chairman Mr Shashank Manohar during the recent ICC Annual Conference in Dubai. The working group will be chaired by Earl Eddings from Cricket Australia, and will comprise Greg Barclay (New Zealand Cricket), Tony Brian (Cricket Scotland), Ehsan Mani (Pakistan Cricket Board), Chris Nenzani (Cricket South Africa) and Ricky Skerritt (Cricket West Indies).

Mr Skerritt, a national of St Kitts and Nevis is also a member of the ICC Human Resource and Development Committees. Following the successful completion of the CWI selection system review, which was a key election campaign of the “Cricket First” 10-point initiative, the other two major reviews promised by the Skerritt-Shallow administration are, like the ICC, a review of the CWI governance structure and system, and an upgrade of the professional franchise system.

“Commissioning the CWI governance review task force, led by Jamaican senator and Grace Kennedy CEO, Don Wehby was as one of the first actions we took after being elected,” said Skerritt, a former senator and Cabinet Minister in St Kitts and Nevis.

“Mr Wehby and his team have been hard at work ever since and I expect to begin hearing from them over the next few weeks.”
Skerritt said serving as a member of this ICC group also gives him the opportunity to learn and share ideas at the highest level of world cricket administration and bring back to the Caribbean some best practices in our governance reform quest.

The appointment of Skerritt has received the endorsement of T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) pres­i­dent Az­im Bas­sarath.
“I am very hap­py with this ap­point­ment of Ricky. It is good to see the ICC re­spect CWI by hav­ing its head on this com­mit­tee,” Bas­sarath told Guardian Me­dia.

“Ricky has great vi­sion and will do us proud in that po­si­tion. I am hap­py that he will be able to car­ry ideas to the ICC, so when we all meet as di­rec­tors we will feel that con­nec­tion to the ICC know­ing full well that Ricky will represent our views.