Business-class flights and single rooms for West Indies girls

West Indies girls will now fly enterprise class for long-haul worldwide flights and keep in single rooms for worldwide video games, bringing them degree with the journey coverage for the lads’s groups, in accordance with Cricket West Indies (CWI).

These choices had been made on the first CWI board of administrators assembly following the election of recent president Kishore Shallow in March.

“The women’s game in international cricket continues to evolve, and CWI must keep apace and, where possible, lead,” Shallow stated. “Introducing these policies and adding a second female to the board as an independent director are monumental strides in the right direction.”

CWI additionally authorised a brand new committee – the Women’s Cricket Transformation Committee – to work in the direction of reaching equality for girls’s gamers.

“The committee’s remit will include but not be limited to recommending strategies geared towards increasing the interest and participation of women and girls in the sport, as well as proposing cricket competitions, events, and pathways that foster competitive women’s and girls’ cricket,” CWI stated in a press release.

“We welcome this move by CWI in the quest to achieve greater equality within our work environment among our cricketers,” Wavell Hinds, the president and CEO of the West Indies Players Association, stated. “We look forward to achieving similar goals in our ongoing negotiations on the renewal of our MOU for another four-year period.”

West Indies girls play Ireland in June and July, adopted by a tour of Australia in October, the place they may play three ODIs and three T20Is.