I’m no quitter, Johnny Grave says as he declares he received’t resign

Though admitting that Cricket West Indies (CWI) needed to take full duty for West Indies’ disappointing efficiency within the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup, chief government officer Johnny Grave has declared he won’t be resigning.

He declared on Tuesday evening, simply over 24 hours after CWI’s announcement that head coach Phil Simmons was stepping down on the heels of the Windies’ first-round exit from the match, that he was no quitter.

Showing on the Mason and Visitor present on VOB 92.9 in Barbados, Grave was requested whether or not he could be within the CEO place when the West Indies start their 2024 T20 World Cup marketing campaign.

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“I’m not accountable for that. My contract, as I mentioned, runs out in June 2023. However am I a quitter? Am I gonna resign? No, I’m not,” he replied.

“Whether or not that contract will get renewed will likely be all the way down to the board of administrators of Cricket West Indies,” added Grave who was appointed in January 2017.

In a surprising flip of occasions, West Indies crashed out of the World Cup after defeats to Scotland and Eire within the qualifiers. The 2-time champions, who wanted to win not less than two video games to succeed in the Tremendous 12 stage, solely produced a victory over Zimbabwe.

Grave mentioned the fault of the regional facet’s disappointing displaying couldn’t be positioned on the shoulders of any single particular person or group.

“The fault is, I feel, a collective duty as a result of the gamers and the workforce are an output of the system and in the end that system has on the very best doable stage, within the worst doable scenario, failed,” he mentioned.

“I feel it’s the time for everybody related with West Indies cricket to replicate on how the sport has modified the way it’s moved on, and what we have to do to compete on a world stage as a result of our system shouldn’t be producing profitable groups for a lot of, a few years now throughout all codecs and each within the girls’s and males’s sport. So, we have to do some soul-searching, dig deep and collectively come ahead to get our system again as much as what must be, which is world-class as a result of if it’s not world-class we will’t anticipate our groups to be.”

In response to a direct query about what blame he would take as an administrator, Grave mentioned CWI because the group in the end liable for the West Indies groups must “take full duty for his or her performances”.

“We’re all bitterly upset… It’s the worst doable final result that none of us wished. So, it’s been a tough interval for us, for the gamers, for the followers. Now, as I mentioned, we’ve received to recover from that disappointment very, in a short time and get much more energetic and targeted on how we work to enhance our system throughout the Caribbean to provide higher gamers and higher groups.”

Grave couldn’t say whether or not another administrator or member of the administration workforce meant to resign or would lose their jobs on account of the T20 World Cup debacle.

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