Last Updated on May 13, 2025, 5:40 AM AST by Anthony Morris
While attending the ‘West Indies Breakout League’ in Trinidad, Director of Cricket West Indies, Miles Bascomb, organized a workshop with six Territorial Talent Identifiers. The training workshop was conducted over three consecutive days from May 8-10, 2025.
This workshop aimed at improving alignment, evaluation methods, and integration with the senior West Indies men’s team. It brought together CWI’s network of Territorial Talent Identifiers with key High Performance and coaching personnel.
Head Coach Daren Sammy led the workshop along with high-performance manager Dwain Gill, senior talent manager Jamal Smith, and CWI’s Performance Analyst Avenesh Seetaram. During the workshop, the six talent identifiers went through several comprehensive sessions.
The six talent identifiers present at the workshop were:-
- Henderson Broomes (Barbados)
- Ramnaresh Sarwan (Guyana)
- Delroy Morgan (Jamaica)
- Samuel Spencer (Leeward Islands)
- Gibran Mohammed (Trinidad & Tobago)
- Craig Emmanuel (Windward Islands)
Head Coach Daren Sammy’s Take On This Initiative
Head Coach Daren Sammy praised Cricket West Indies for the initiative. He said that it is a great initiative brought on by CWI with all the talent IDs that they have found across the Caribbean region.
He further added that the intention of the workshop is to provide context and guidance to this instrumental group, by giving them an in-depth look at what they do at the highest level in all three formats of the game.
Key Objective of the Workshop
Director of CWI, Miles Bascombe stated that the key objective of the workshop is to ensure that the Territorial Talent identifiers know the processes that drive selection, and talent identification and development. He also said that the input and feedback from the group was extremely valuable and provided a foundation for continuous collaboration.
Moreover, Miles Bascombe highlighted the in-depth charting process and the gathering of their input on creating a standardized player assessment model to be implemented system wide.
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