The Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) has confirmed a reshuffle of leadership roles across its national youth cricket selection panels, bringing a familiar name from top-level cricket into the chairmanship of the men’s junior selection body while retaining key institutional knowledge to support continued development.
Forty-five-year-old Jason Haynes, a former first-class cricket competitor, will step into the role of chairman of the national youth men’s cricket selection panel, taking over from previous chair Elvis Howard. Howard will not depart the committee entirely, however; he will retain his seat as one of the five members of the panel, joining fellow existing members Shirley Clarke, Roderick Estwick and Nhamo Winn.
In an official press statement issued by the BCA, the governing body publicly recognized Howard’s years of dedicated leadership in the role, noting that his continued presence on the new-look panel delivers the critical stability that youth cricket programs depend on. The association highlighted that Howard’s deep, firsthand understanding of emerging junior players across Barbados remains an invaluable asset for the selection process.
Haynes will not be leaving his existing post with the senior men’s selection panel, and will continue to serve in that capacity while taking on his new youth-focused responsibilities. The remit of the men’s junior selection panel remains unchanged: its core mandate is to oversee talent selection for Barbados’ Under-13, Under-15, Under-17 and Under-19 men’s national squads, and it will also continue to provide strategic input for the Sir Everton Weekes Centre of Excellence, the island’s elite development hub for young cricketers.
In a parallel update, the BCA confirmed that Patricia Greenidge will retain her position as chair of both the national women’s junior and senior selection panels. She will be joined on the women’s selection committees by Ulric Batson and former West Indies international cricketer Sherwin Campbell. Campbell, a former captain of the Barbados men’s national side who earned 52 Test caps and 90 One Day International caps for the West Indies during his playing career, has been appointed to a new dual role: he will now serve as head coach for both the women’s junior and senior national squads.
Campbell’s first task in his new coaching position will be leading the Barbados Under-19 women’s squad at this year’s Cricket West Indies (CWI) regional youth competition, where the island’s emerging female talent will compete against teams from across the Caribbean.