WATCH LIVE: Professional Cricket League Player Draft
The inaugural Player Draft of the West Indies Cricket Board's Professional Cricket League will be staged today at Accra Beach Hotel in Barbados from 11am Eastern Caribbean Time (9am Jamaica Time).
You can watch a live webcast of the Player Draft via the video box above while live online text updates will be rolling throughout the Draft @westindies and @WindiesRegional on Twitter and Windies Cricket on Facebook.
Representing the six franchises at the Player Draft will be:
Barbados Franchise
Dexter Toppin – Head Coach (Acting)
Hendy Wallace – Chairman of Selectors
Guyana Franchise
Esuan Crandon – Head Coach
Rayon Griffith – Chairman of Selectors
Jamaica Franchise
Junior Bennett – Head Coach
Wavell Hinds – Chairman of Selectors
Leeward Islands Franchise
Ridley Jacobs – Head Coach
Lawrence Carty – Chairman of Selectors
Trinidad & Tobago Red Force Franchise
Gus Logie – Head Coach
Alec Burns – Chairman of Selectors
Windward Islands Volcanoes Franchise
Ian Allen – Head Coach
Charles Walter – Chairman of Selectors
ABOUT THE PLAYER DRAFT
The Player Draft has been organised with the goal of achieving an equitable distribution of the available player talent in the Regional 4-Day and NAGICO Super50 tournaments.
Each of the six franchises will contract a minimum of 15 players, as follows:
● 10 players pre-selected from the Home Territory, and
● 5 players selected from the Player Draft
The six franchises shall participate in the Player Draft through their selection panel which shall consist of the Chairman of Selectors and Head Coach.
The Player Draft shall be conducted over 5 rounds. Each franchise will have 3 minutes in each round to select a player.
The selection order for the Player Draft is linked to the final league position in the 2013-14 WICB’s President’s Cup of the Territorial Board’s team affiliated with the franchise. The sequence below shall be repeated each round.