CRICKET-Matthew suggests a four-year term for CWI president.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Antigua’s Minister of Sport, Daryll Matthew, believes the time has come for Cricket West Indies (CWI) to increase the term limit of its president to four years.

On Thursday, during CWI’s quarterly press conference, Matthew said the current two-year term needed to be revised for any president to make significant changes during his tenure.

Matthew told CWI president Dr Kishore Shallow that while he was impressed with what he had achieved since being elected in March 2023, more time to achieve all was needed for his goals.

Additionally, he said a four-year term would bring CWI in line with similar sporting organizations worldwide.

“In many modern sports, administrators lead for four-year terms. When you have an organization that you are in election mode every two years, it leaves very little room to do much else than a campaign,” Matthew explained.

“This is doing a disservice to the organization. I believe that the thrust that you and your team have made over the past few years to improve the overall governance of CWI, the time has now come for that final hurdle to be addressed.

“I think the magnitude of CWI, representing the people’s passion, is unsustainable for an organization. An organization that has the resources and, on whose shoulders, tremendous responsibility lies can’t always be in election mode,” he added.

However, Matthew said he understood the challenges Dr Shallow would face if he sought to increase the term limit while being president.

“I hope that at some point very shortly, it is something that your Board can address to seek to extend the term to a four-year term like almost every other international sporting organization worldwide.

“And I can understand the discomfort that you may have as the sitting president to be the one addressing it. There may be mischievous persons who would indicate that it is a self-serving move, and I’m not sure how you and your team will address that, but certainly, to have a two-year term of office for an organization like CWI is, in my personal opinion, not practical nor perhaps sensible,” Matthew maintained.