West Indies Cricket Fans

The West Indies Cricket Board Youth Development Programme known as the “WICB Digicel Grassroots Programme” is a partnership between the WICB and Digicel which provides training for young cricketers from ages twelve (12) to seventeen (17) years. The Grassroots Programme prepares young cricketers for their entry into competitive cricket by providing them with the necessary training to develop their cricketing skills and physical and mental preparedness for the game.

As part of the Grassroots Programme, a funding grant of up to USD 5000 will be provided to each community based cricket organisation to improve the quality and standards of local community cricket grounds and the community cricket training programme.

Multiple clubs common to a community/area can group together to form a cluster which can also benefit from the grant. To be eligible for the programme clubs/clusters must be able to show the West Indies Cricket Board a current club/cluster structure with active participants. Clubs/cluster must have a training facility readily available with permission granted to use the training facility.

Preference will be given to clubs/clusters that have a current training programme and have attracted the support of the local community especially the young members of the community.