 | GREENIDGE FACTS Born 1.5.51, Barbados 108 Tests
7,558 runs, average 44.72, 19 100s, highest score 226 128 ODIs
5,134 runs, average 45.03, 11 100s, highest score 133no |
Former Test batsman Gordon Greenidge has been appointed as the new convenor of selectors by the West Indies. Greenidge replaces Joey Carew, who decided not to stand for re-election for another two-year term.
Clyde Butts also retains his place on the panel and he and Greenidge will be joined by another West Indies Test great, Andy Roberts.
Current captain Brian Lara and coach Bennett King will also be given a full role at selection meetings.
Lara recently threatened to resign after a difference of opinion with the selectors during a home series against India.
He was made a selector for the series in May, but claimed he was only told about the decision on the eve of the final Test.
"It's so important everyone involved - the selectors, the public, the administrators, the cricketers - have all got to be moving in the same direction and not fighting each other if we want to move forward," Lara told BBC Sport earlier this week.
The changes to the selection panel are likely to mean that he will stay on in the job, with the main task of moulding the team into a competitive unit before next year's World Cup in the Caribbean.
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