WICB Media Release.
St John’s, Antigua – Will the Professional Cricket League (PCL) First Round Draft Pick be accomplished Test batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan? Could it be pace merchant Fidel Edwards? Or perhaps the fiery Tino Best? Will Samuel Badree, the T20 specialist, be preferred?
These questions will be answered by the Guyana Franchise as they will have the First Round Draft Pick when the newly launched West Indies Cricket Board PCL Draft Ceremony kicks off in Barbados at 11am on Monday October 6th. The WICB today announced the list of 102 players who will be in the PCL Draft.
Sarwan heads the list which also includes ten other players with West Indies experience.
The eleven players with international credentials are:
•Ramnaresh Sarwan
•Fidel Edwards
•Tino Best
•Ravi Rampaul (pending his agreement)
•Krishmar Santokie (pending his agreement)
•Samuel Badree (pending his agreement)
•Ryan Hinds
•Nelon Pascal
•Gavin Tonge
•Miles Bascombe
•Garey Mathurin
Each of the six franchises will select five players to add to the 10 players which they have already retained. Each squad will comprise of 15 players.
The Draft will commence with the Guyana Franchise making the opening selection followed by the Leeward Islands Franchise, the Jamaica Franchise, the Windward Islands Volcanoes, Trinidad and Tobago Red Force and finally the Barbados Franchise.
This formula will be repeated for each of the five rounds of draft picks.
A total of 30 players will be drafted. The remaining players will be available for Pay-For-Play contracts at the discretion of the various franchises.
Each of the franchises nominated 15 players and the WICB nominated an additional 12 players.
The WICB is awaiting the agreement of Rampaul, Santokie, Badree and also Kevon Cooper to be included in the Draft.
The PCL comprises the WICB Regional 4 Day Tournament and the NAGICO Super50 Tournament.
WICB PROFESSIONAL CRICKET LEAGUE DRAFT
BARBADOS FRANCHISE DRAFT NOMINEES
•Anthony Alleyne
•Tino Best
•Rashidi Boucher
•Sharmarh Brooks
•Royston Chase
•Fidel Edwards
•Justin Greaves
•Antonio Greenidge
•Ryan Hinds
•Kyle Hope
•Shai Hope
•Kyle Mayers
•Raymon Reifer
•Javon Searles
•Kenroy Williams
GUYANA FRANCHISE DRAFT NOMINEES
•Anthony Adams
•Ricardo Adams
•Robin Bacchus
•Kevon Boodie
•Rajendra Chandrika
•Royston Crandon
•Chanderpaul Hemraj
•Steven Jacobs
•Raun Johnson
•Keon Joseph
•Amir Khan
•Zaheer Khan
•Ramnaresh Sarwan
•Vishaul Singh
•Paul Wintz
JAMAICA FRANCHISE DRAFT NOMINEES
•Gavon Brown
•Odean Brown
•Brian Buchanan
•Cassius Burton Jr
•Akeem Dewar
•Nicholas Gordon
•Brandon King
•Kenar Lewis
•Andre McCarthy
•Jamie Merchant
•Horace Miller
•Paul Palmer
•John Ross-Campbell
•Aldaine Thomas
•Shacoya Thomas
LEEWARD ISLANDS FRANCHISE DRAFT NOMINEES
•Nelson Boland
•Shane Burton
•Javal Hodge
•Shane Jeffers
•Javia Liburd
•Anthony Martin
•Jaison Peters
•Orlando Peters
•Sherwin Peters
•Adelvin Phillip
•Lyndel Richardson
•Akeem Saunders
•Jacques Taylor
•Gavin Tonge
•Tonito Willett
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO RED FORCE DRAFT NOMINEES
•Jahron Alfred
•Yannick Cariah
•Brian Charles
•Derone Davis
•Mark Deyal
•Justin Guillen
•Akeal Hosein
•Ricky Jaipaul
•Ranga Latchana
•Vikash Mohan
•Kjorn Ottley
•Yannick Ottley
•Kerwyn Sirju
•Jeremy Solozano
•Daniel St Clair
WINDWARD ISLANDS VOLCANOES DRAFT NOMINEES
•Miles Bascombe
•Jian Benjamin
•Alston Bobb
•Romel Currency
•Kenneth Denbar
•Tayrick Gabriel
•Lyndon James
•Ray Jordan
•Kevin Hodge
•Garey Mathurin
•Mervin Mathew
•Preston McSween
•Nelon Pascal
•Dalton Polius
•Jelari Robinson
WEST INDIES CRICKET BOARD DRAFT NOMINEES
•Samuel Badree (Trinidad and Tobago, pending his agreement)
•Kevon Cooper (Trinidad and Tobago, pending his agreement)
•Rakheem Cornwall
•Keiron Cottoy (St Lucia)
•Larry Edward (St Vincent and the Grenadines)
•Danza Hyatt (Jamaica)
•Jerome Jones (Barbados)
•Gudakesh Motie-Kanhai (Guyana)
•Ravi Rampaul (Trinidad and Tobago, pending his agreement)
•Krishmar Santokie (Jamaica, pending his agreement)
•Dawayne Sealey (Barbados)
•Kesrick Williams (St Vincent and the Grenadines)
WICB PROFESSIONAL CRICKET LEAGUE (PCL) LIST OF RETAINED PLAYERS
BARBADOS FRANCHISE RETAINED PLAYERS
•Carlos Brathwaite
•Jonathan Carter
•Kyle Corbin
•Miguel Cummins
•Shane Dowrich
•Ashley Nurse
•Dwayne Smith
•Kevin Stoute
•Omar Phillips
•Jomel Warrican
GUYANA FRANCHISE RETAINED PLAYERS
•Christopher Barnwell
•Ronsford Beaton
•Devendra Bishoo
•Anthony Bramble
•Tagenarine Chanderpaul
•Narsingh Deonarine
•Assad Fudadin
•Trevon Griffith
•Leon Johnson
•Veerasammy Permaul
JAMAICA FRANCHISE RETAINED PLAYERS
•Carlton Baugh Jr
•Dave Bernard Jr
•Jermaine Blackwood
•Nkrumah Bonner
•John Campbell
•Sheldon Cottrell
•Jason Dawes
•Damion Jacobs
•Tamar Lambert
•Nikita Miller
LEEWARD ISLANDS FRANCHISE RETAINED PLAYERS
•Quinton Boatswain
•Jahmar Hamilton
•Montcin Hodge
•Yannick Leonard
•Steve Liburd
•Jeremiah Louis
•Kieran Powell
•Devon Thomas
•Hayden Walsh
•Kelbert Walters
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO RED FORCE RETAINED PLAYERS
•Adrian Barath
•Rayad Emrit
•Shannon Gabriel
•Steven Katwaroo
•Imran Khan
•Evin Lewis
•Jason Mohammed
•Nicholas Pooran
•Marlon Richards
•Lendl Simmons
WINDWARD ISLANDS VOLCANOES RETAINED PLAYERS
•Sunil Ambris
•Johnson Charles
•Andre Fletcher
•Delorn Johnson
•Keddy Lesporis
•Kenroy Peters
•Liam Sebastien
•Shane Shillingford
•Devon Smith
•Tyrone Theophile
WICB Media Release.