LITTLE BAY, St Maarten (CMC) - Val Banks beat legendary West Indies captain Clive Lloyd for the post of Vice-President, and Ken Gordon was formalised as new President the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), yesterday.

Trinidadian Gordon was the sole nominee for the post of president, while Anguilla's Banks topped Lloyd in the poll for the Vice-President's post at the Board's 6th Annual Meeting.
Gordon replaces Teddy Griffith, who had indicated in June that he would not accept nomination.

Coming to the position with a long and distinguished career in business, the 75 year-old Gordon has been chairman of a major Caribbean conglomerate, Neal and Massy Holdings, although his major business interest has been in the media.
Gordon served as managing director of the Trinidad Express and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Caribbean Communications Network (CCN).

He had also been instrumental in the establishment of a number of regional media houses including in Guyana, Jamaica and Barbados and was inducted into the Caribbean Broadcasting Union's Caribbean Broadcasting Hall of Fame, in August 2000.

Gordon also served as a Senator in the parliament and as a government minister in Trinidad and Tobago.
Banks, 55, is presently serving as Vice-President of the WICB.

A banker by profession, he was previously the president of the Leeward Islands Cricket Association.

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