The Jamaica Star :: Sport :: Sebastien, Jumadeen, Butts tipped to be new Windies selectors

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC)

Former Windwards and Combined Islands opening batsman Lockhart Sebastien and ex-Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies left-arm spin bowler Raphick Jumadeen are being tipped to be new West Indies selectors.

Sebastien and Jumadeen are in line to join Guyanese Clyde Butts in forming the new regional senior selection panel.

Front-runners

Informed sources told CMC the trio emerged as front-runners from a list of nine nominees, who were interviewed by a West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) cricket committee at the Accra Beach Hotel on this island's south coast last Friday and Saturday.

The sources also named Barbados' most successful captain and former international wicket-keeper, Courtney Browne, among six candidates, who were chosen to look after the selection of West Indies senior, junior and women's cricket teams.

The six are to be ratified at a WICB meeting in St Lucia on July 24 and 25.

Three former West Indies players conducted the interviews — Clive Lloyd, who is chairman of the cricket committee, Deryck Murray, the president of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board and Jackie Hendriks, president, of the Jamaica Cricket Association.

Chiefs in attendance

Also in attendance were WICB Chief Executive Officer Dr Donald Peters and Chief Cricket Operations Officer Tony Howard.

Butts, who played seven Tests as an off-spinner, is the only survivor of the last senior selection committee, which included legends Gordon Greenidge (chairman) and Andy Roberts.

Neither Greenidge nor Roberts gained nominations on the list of nine, although Roberts was on an original shortlist of 12.

Apart from Butts, Sebastien, Jumadeen and Browne, the others who were interviewed were Jamaicans Robert Haynes and Nehemiah Perry, Larry Gomes and Bryan Davis of Trinidad and Tobago, and Leeward Islander Stuart Williams of Nevis.

To be eligible for a West Indies selector, candidates must have played either Tests, One-Day Internationals or representative matches for West Indies 'A' (formerly called 'B') teams.