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GUYANA CHRONICLE Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Rowley conveys CARICOM position... He was joined in the meeting by his Foreign and CARICOM Affairs Minister, Senator Dennis Moses, along with Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister and Ministry of the Attorney General, Stuart Young. “The discussions surrounded the history of West Indies Cricket and the recent developments in West Indies cricket, including its current state,” a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said. “The Prime Minister provided a briefing on the position of CARICOM
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leaders and how they collectively feel about the management of West Indian cricket.” Rowley and CA also discussed the role of West Indies cricket in the development of the game in Australia, while agreeing on the need for the Caribbean side to return to “a dominant position in international cricket.” Further, CA committed to supporting any efforts to help West Indies cricket in the future. Rowley, who has been publicly critical of Cricket West Indies’ management, also discussed the role of cricket’s world governing body, the International
Cricket Council(ICC). CARICOM is set to meet with the ICC during the Twenty20 Women’s World Cup in November, to also convey its position on West Indies cricket. The regional national grouping has been at loggerheads with CWI ever since endorsing a 2015 Governance Report, authored by UWI Cave Hill principal Professor Eudine Barriteau, which recommended “the immediate dissolution” of the governing body. Commissioned by CARICOM, the report slammed CWI as “antiquated”, “obsolete” and “anachronistic”, while calling for the appointment
of an interim board “whose structure and composition will be radically different from the now proven, obsolete governance framework.” CWI have since put up staunch resistance to the report, labelling the recommendations “impractical” and an “unnecessary and intrusive demand.” At the Intersessional in Haiti last February, CARICOM adopted legal advice suggesting there was a case to be argued on the basis of CWI, as a private entity, continuing to manage the “public good” of West Indies cricket.
‘Lady Jags’ coach disappointed... FROM BACK PAGE
By Rawle Toney “SOMETIMES it doesn’t matter how pretty you look; up to that final point you have to make and deliver that final ball, and we were there and we couldn’t deliver it. And it’s a shame because I think they had a chance, there were good opportunities,” the words of Dr Ivan Joseph, head coach of Guyana’s senior national football team, following his said failure to make it out Group E of the CONCACAF Caribbean Qualifier tournament. The ‘Lady Jags’ as they are more popularly called, playing in their final game of the four-team group at the Leonora Track and Field Centre, entered the game needing a win where they would’ve been tied on seven points with eventual group winners, Bermuda, but held a superior goal advantage (+5). Guyana and Bermuda played an entertaining 2 – 2 draw in the game that was the first meeting at
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the senior women’s level between the two countries. Bermuda secured wins against Barbados (3 – 2) and Suriname (1 – 0), leaving the Lady Jags who copped a 6 – 1 win over Suriname in their second win, needing a win to send them through. Against Barbados, Guyana failed to find the net on their many chances and result at the end of 90 minutes, (0 – 0) meant that Guyana, will for the first time since 2010, had failed to reach a CONCACAF tournament. In April, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) had announced Canadian Dr Ivan Joseph will be the new head coach of the Lady Jags; the Federation’s most successful programme, with the aim of not only resuscitating women’s football, but also send Guyana back to the tournament they had first featured in 2010, the CONCACAF Gold Cup. “A 0-0 draw against Barbados is clearly not what we intended. Hats off to Barbados; they
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had six in the box, they sat back; we just didn’t have the composure in the final third. We changed formations, we changed formations and they had their athletes at the back,” said Joseph, who holds a PhD Sport Phycology. “To me the biggest disappointment, the biggest reason for the loss was our inability to dot the ‘I’ and cross the ‘T’ in the final third. Sometimes the stage is big, and the lights are bright, and you don’t get to deliver your biggest performance in those types of moments. I don’t think we played our best game, and that’s the biggest disappointment, but I think we need these experiences in order to be able to move forward,” Dr. Joseph said. With dust settled, the Lady Jags will now have to pick up the pieces and move on, as Dr Joseph stated that the aim is to now close the gap between Guyana and the rest of the world with regards to Women’s football, adding “one of the things is I want to have a national team camp here (in Guyana) for all comers. I’m looking to come back some time later in the summer and really identify all the ladies, all the talent.” “One of the things I’ve heard loud and clear is that people are feeling like they’re not picked up for the team or they’re not getting chosen. And so my challenge is to create a camp experience here that allows people to stay at home and come wherever the grounds are that we might have and have an audition, so we could have more players in our pool. The next thing after that is that I want to make sure the team stays together and we have another friendly some time before the end of the year.”