WICB elections on hold - Top bosses to be elected on July 21 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CANA: A new president and a new vice-president for the embattled West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) will be elected on Saturday, July 21 at a venue to be announced. This is one of the main decisions taken by directors of the WICB at a three-hour long, extraordinary general meeting that ended close to midnight on Tuesday. The post of president and vice-president became vacant when Jamaican attorney-at-law Pat Rousseau and Antiguan business executive Clarvis Joseph quit their respective posts on Saturday. Rousseau and Joseph indicated their decision to resign was based on the "unacceptable position" in which they found themselves after the WICB's directors rescinded their decision to terminate Ricky Skerritt as West Indies manager. Prior to the directors' meeting on Tuesday, there had been conflicting reports about the appointment of an interim president to direct the affairs of the WICB in the weeks prior to the elections. "An interim management committee has been formed to manage the WICB over the next couple of weeks," Andrew Sealy, the executive secretary of the WICB, told reporters in the wee hours of yesterday morning. The management committee comprises Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board treasurer Richard deSouza, Guyana Cricket Board president Chetram Singh, who was chairman of Tuesday night's meeting, and Barbados Cricket Association president Stephen Alleyne. They along with chief executive Gregory Shillingford and chief finance officer Richard Jodhan will manage the WICB, but no interim chairman was named and is not likely to be named. "The three members who are directors will determine between themselves when the committee will meet," Sealy said vaguely, when pressed about an interim chairman or spokesman for the WICB. It is understood Singh and Alleyne, along with Shillingford, however, are expected to represent the WICB at upcoming International Cricket Council meetings.
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