Cricket West Indies (CWI) Chief Executive Officer Johnny Grave says the successful staging of the Super50 Cup will have positive repercussions for the West Indies team, especially being hosted just prior to the three-match one-day series against Sri Lanka next month.
The Super50, which bowled off here on February 7 and concludes next Saturday, is the first domestic regional tournament to be staged by CWI since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic in the Caribbean last march.
“The Super50 Cup is a really important tournament for us. It will lead in nicely to the One-Day International (ODI) series against Sri Lanka which, obviously, forms part of the World Cup qualifiers for 2023,” Grave explained.
“So it’s really important for the players that they’ve been given this opportunity to play some cricket for the selectors to get to see them up close and personal.
“Hopefully we can take those matches as preparation into the ODI series because it’s really important on the back of losing all three in Bangladesh that we can bounce back and get up that Super League table, so that we don’t have to go through the qualification for the next World Cup.”
The first-class championship was the last tournament to be staged by CWI and that was aborted last March with two rounds remaining, due to the threat of the coronavirus.
And while the Caribbean Premier League went ahead in August and September in Trinidad, the Super50 Cup remained off the table.
