ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Dwaine Gill, a for­mer Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Di­rec­tor, has been ap­point­ed as its new High Per­for­mance Man­ag­er, fol­low­ing the de­par­ture of Graeme West.

Gill, who al­so served as pres­i­dent of the Wind­ward Is­lands Crick­et Board and is al­so a for­mer pres­i­dent of the Grena­da Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion, takes over the po­si­tion left va­cant by West who demit­ted of­fice on Sep­tem­ber 30.

Gill was the man­ag­er of the suc­cess­ful West In­dies Un­der-19 team that won the 2016 World Cup.

He has aca­d­e­m­ic train­ing in busi­ness ad­min­is­tra­tion and holds a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence and a Mas­ter’s de­gree.

West, who has tak­en up the role of Crick­et Ire­land’s (CI) Di­rec­tor of High Per­for­mance, joined the or­gan­i­sa­tion in June 2012, as the head coach of the High-Per­for­mance Cen­tre at Cave Hill, Bar­ba­dos.

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