WEST Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Dave Cameron is pleased with the way the NAGICO Super50 tournament unfolded recently.The Super50 is one of the tools the WICB has been using to bring out talent in the West Indies with a view to raising the regional side’s stocks on the international scene.
According to Cameron, while still in the early stages, the process is working.
“I am actually convinced that we are getting better. Despite the conversation about pitches, which is something that we continue to work on, I think we had some reasonable (scores). We had new players coming forward and so from where we sit we are reasonably happy,” said Cameron.
The WICB president was speaking about players like Alzarri Joseph who is now playing with the West Indies Under19s in the Under-19 World T20s.
“Obviously we have to look at the format for next year and we are happy that we are able to host so many games this year, which was a major achievement for us, and we hope to at least have those minimum games next year,” said Cameron.
Cameron is also aware, however, that there are still issues that need to be fixed for the tournament and others like it, before real success is achieved.
One of those issues has to do with the quality of the pitches.
“It’s always going to be challenging to play so many games in a short space of time using four grounds [Jamaica, Trinidad, St Kitts and Barbados]. Clearly the pitches deteriorate as the tournament goes on, so going forward we need to look at that (issue), but pitches in general continues to be a challenge for us,” said Cameron.
The WICB chief says there are measures the WICB has tried to put in place, with Ken Grafton visiting the different islands to ensure quality pitches, but there needs to be more done by the individual territories.
“… it comes back down to the curators that are on the spot and some of our government partners to ensure that we have quality wickets,” said Cameron.

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