Roland Butcher appointed new selector

Barbados-born former England batsman Roland Butcher has been appointed the latest member of West Indies males’s senior and youth choice panels.

Butcher, 69, will reunite with lead selector Desmond Haynes, his former Middlesex teammate within the English County Championship, on the senior panel, and can work alongside former Jamaica captain and West Indies leg-spinner Robert Haynes on the youth panel.

“It’s a fantastic honour and a privilege to be given the chance to serve West Indies cricket,” Butcher stated in a Cricket West Indies (CWI) information launch on Friday.

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“I’m wanting to get began to work alongside the opposite members of the choice panels as we glance to make sure the expansion and enchancment in West Indies cricket in any respect ranges.”

CWI stated Butcher’s appointment  was confirmed at a board of administrators assembly final Monday.

The primary job for Butcher and the senior choice panel that additionally contains interim head coach Andre Coley might be to pick squads for upcoming excursions of Zimbabwe and South Africa between February and March subsequent yr.

Butcher, the primary Black man to play for England, performed three Assessments, all on the 1980-81 tour of the Caribbean, and three ODIs.

After his enjoying profession, he went into teaching – not solely cricket – however soccer too, incomes a UEFA teaching badge, and he counts Leicester Metropolis supervisor Brendon Rogers amongst his contemporaries in that regard.

Butcher was Bermuda cricket head coach from 2000 to 2001, and was director of sports activities on the Cave Hill campus of the College of the West Indies in Barbados from 2004 till his retirement three years in the past.

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