PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):

TheWest Indies Cricket Board will not only deal with Chief Executive Officer Bruce Aanensen's resignation when it meets this weekend but will also discuss several other cricketing matters, among them, the ratification of dates for the upcoming regional season. Dates have been proposed by cricket operations manager Tony Howard but the board's directors will meet in Barbados this weekend to decide, together with the West Indies Players Association (WIPA), whether the dates will be approved.

So far, a start date of October 15 has been proposed for the KFC Cup limited-overs tournament. This phase of the tournament is scheduled to be completed in two weeks with the first round of the regional first-class series, the Carib Beer Cup, carded for November 1. The tournament will be played over two rounds on a home-and-away basis with the first round scheduled to be completed by December 15.

There will be a break for the Christmas period after which, the Stanford Twenty20 cham-pionships will be contested beginning January 24 and ending February 25.

It is proposed that the Carib Cup resume with the second round of matches thereafter.

The topic on the agenda generating the most interest, however, will be how the directors deal with AanensenÕs resignation.

Aanenson, a former banking executive, resigned his post recently after only four months on the job.