Joel Garner’s days of managing the West Indies team is over but he has an even bigger role now.

Garner is the first Ambassador of cricket West Indies CWI and he will be the spearhead of the ‘Windies Foundation which will help CWI fund the grassroots and community and club cricket within the region.

CWI Chief Executive Officer Johnny Grave made this disclosure at a Barbados Cricket Association quarterly meeting at the Kensington Oval.

Grave said that Garner will be travelling the region discussing plans with Caribbean government officials on the allocation of games for next year’s tour by the English.

Garner’s reassignment is one of the many changes that CWI has recently rolled out.

Australian Stuart Law remains the head coach, Englishman Toby Radford, the batting coach, and Ryan Maron the fielding coach but there is a temporary appointment in a new one-day specialist bowling coach in South African Alfonso Thomas, who is on contract purely for the ICC World Cup qualifier in Zimbabwe next month.

Floyd Reifer is coaching the West Indies ‘a’ team, with another Barbadian, Roderick Estwick, being reassigned to the “a” side.

There is a new medical team in place, a new strength and conditioning coach in Corey Bocking of Australia and a new Physio in Dave Kershaw, who has worked for Lancashire in England for many years.

Former Windwards islands and West Indies leg-spinner Rawl Lewis has been promoted to team manager replacing garner.

Grave said he was delighted that Kensington Oval would be hosting the first pink ball (day/night) test match in the Caribbean when Sri Lanka tour in June.