ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has approved a US$50 000 grant for the Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC).

The annual development grant for CCC was among decisions reached by the WICB during its recent meeting in Barbados.
The grant is similar to what is received by the six Territorial Boards on an annual basis for the purposes of aiding the development of cricket.
“The CCC programme, in a very significant way, aids us in ensuring that some of our best talents do not have to compromise their education for cricket or vice versa,” WICB president, Dr Julian Hunte said.
“The programme has become one which is at the forefront of global cricket as successfully merging formal higher education with cricket”.
The CCC programme has become integral to the development of West Indies cricket since it was conceived in 2007.
The CCC participates in the WICB senior men’s tournaments – Regional 4-Day, Super50 and Caribbean Twenty20.
“We have seen a number of players spend time in the CCC programme and then graduate to international level or return to their regional teams where they continue to compete at a very high level, and after they would have achieved academically as well. Most notably among them is Miles Bascombe,” Dr Hunte said.
“We have seen too the professionalism and strong competition offered by the CCC in our various tournaments where they are quickly developing into a force to be reckoned with and can no longer be treated lightly by the other regional sides”.