Joey Carew - FILE
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC):
WEST INDIES selector Joey Carew has declared that he is no longer planning to continue in that job.
Trinidad and Tobago's Carew, the convenor of selectors on the last panel, submitted to his local authorities that he is pulling out of contention for the panel.
"Joey Carew has notified the president of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB), Deryck Murray, that he is withdrawing his nomination for the post of West Indies selector for the upcoming term," the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) announced in a press release yesterday.
The West Indies selection panel's two-year term ended last month - June 30 - and a new panel is to be installed at a WICB meeting in Barbados today.
The TTCB had nominated Carew for the next term, but he indicated that after careful consideration, he has decided to withdraw.
HISTORY WITH CRICKET
Carew has been involved with West Indies cricket for the past 25 years, having previously represented the West Indies as a player and served as a selector of both the Trinidad and Tobago and the West Indies teams. He played 19 Test matches and was vice-captain of the West Indies team at home in 1971-72. Carew has been West Indies selector during the periods 1977-1979, 1985-1987 and 1998 to this year June.
The selection of the West Indies team has taken the spotlight recently after pronouncements by team captain Brian Lara during the home series against India.
Lara asked for different bowlers during the recent Test series defeat (0-1) at home to India, but was not granted his wish.
Former West Indies fast bowler Andy Roberts is among three new candidates for the selection panel - the others are fellow Leeward Islander Derick Parry of Nevis and Dominican Lockhart Sebastien.
They are expected to join the incumbent Gordon Greenidge and Clyde Butts as contenders on a panel to serve for the next two years.
