{"id":5920,"date":"2023-03-27T11:27:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T05:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=292451"},"modified":"2023-03-27T11:27:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T05:57:20","slug":"west-indies-announces-new-president-for-cwi-board-as-kishore-shallow-takes-over-from-skerritt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/west-indies-announces-new-president-for-cwi-board-as-kishore-shallow-takes-over-from-skerritt\/","title":{"rendered":"West Indies announces new President for CWI board as Kishore Shallow takes over from Skerritt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CWI has announced their new President for the board after Skeritt decided to step down, making the former vice-president of Board \u2013 Kishore Shallow, as their new CWI President<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to  newly elected Cricket West Indies President, Dr Kishore Shallow, and Vice Prrsident, Mr Azim Bassarath.<br \/>I wish them every success as they deal with matters pertaining to the performance of the West Indies cricket team and the business of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/windiescricket?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@windiescricket<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MXJUq8NEG4\">pic.twitter.com\/MXJUq8NEG4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hon. Olivia \u201cBabsy\u201d Grange (@Babsy_grange) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Babsy_grange\/status\/1639988820429905920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ricky Skerritt, who led Cricket West Indies (CWI) for the previous four years, has chosen not to pursue employment with another team, so CWI now has a new president. Azim Bassarath of Trinidad and Tobago has taken over as the new vice-president, replacing <strong>Dr. Kishore Shallow<\/strong>, who served as Skerritt\u2019s vice-president. Both have been chosen for two-year terms.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">\u201cI left. I did not seek re-election. I always said that four years would be enough for me,\u201d Skerritt, a former manager of the West Indies team, told Cricbuzz on Sunday night. The change of dispensation was confirmed at the CWI Annual General Meeting (AGM), held in Antigua, on Saturday (March 25).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">The 24th AGM, which took place at the Coolidge Cricket Ground in Antigua, included the election procedure as one of its main agenda items. Dr. Shallow is from the Grenadines and St. Vincent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<blockquote>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">\u201cOn behalf of Cricket West Indies, I sincerely thank the outgoing President Ricky Skerritt for his latest contribution to our beloved cricket. He has served with distinction and pride in one of the most challenging periods in our lifetime, the COVID-19 pandemic. His tenure has certainly moved us in the right direction,\u201d Dr Shallow said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CWI has announced their new President for the board after Skeritt decided to step down, making the former vice-president of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1758,242],"class_list":["post-5920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-cwi","tag-west-indies"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}