By Rajiv Bisnauth

SECRETARY of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cricket Guyana Inc., Anand Sanasie, is set to challenge incumbent Cricket West Indies (CWI) president Ricky Skerritt in elections carded for March 21.
Chronicle Sport was reliably informed that Sanasie, a long-serving Director of CWI will be nominated by his board and is expected to be seconded by Barbados Cricket

Association (BCA). It is understood his running mate is Calvin Hope, the vice-president of Barbados Cricket Association, who is also a CWI Director.
The two names are expected to be submitted before today’s nomination deadline.
Skerritt – who has previously been a cabinet minister and senator in the National Assembly of St Kitts and Nevis, also served as minister of tourism – and vice-president Kishore Shallow are both in their first terms as president and vice-president but their tenure has been tainted by the current failure of their proposed 10-point plan they set out prior to being elected.

The 10-point plan includes cricket-specific issues such as modernising coach education, a new approach to selection, placing greater emphasis at Under-19 and Under-23 levels and increased funding for the sport at grassroots level. Skerritt, a former West Indies team manager, ended Dave Cameron’s controversial reign as the CWI president after six years. Cameron lost by an 8-4 margin after the elections were conducted. Emmanuel Nanthan, who was also standing for a fourth term as Cameron’s deputy, was beaten by the same margin by Shallow, an entrepreneur and president of the St Vincent & The Grenadines Cricket Association. Sanasie was asked for comment by Chronicle Sport but declined. Each of the six territorial boards, Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA), BCA, Windward Islands Cricket Board (WICB), Leeward Islands Cricket Board (LICB), Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) and GCB have two votes each, and the votes can be cast by two representatives nominated by each of the territorial boards.