International cricket umpire Billy Doctrove has been elected President of the Dominica Olympic Committee ©Getty Images

Former international cricket umpire Billy Doctrove has unseated incumbent Felix Wilson to be elected President of the Dominica Olympic Committee (DOC). 

Doctrove received eight out of 14 votes from delegates at a meeting in Roseau.

Wilson, who had served as President since 1997, received just five votes while there was one spoiled ballot paper.

Doctrove, 61, began his officiating career in football, taking charge of several international matches including a World Cup qualifier between Guyana and Grenada in 1996. 

He switched to cricket soon after and officiated in a One Day International (ODI) match between the West Indies and England in St Vincent in 1998.

His first Test Match followed two years later between West Indies and Pakistan in Antigua.

Doctrove is best known for umpiring the fourth Test Match between England and Pakistan at The Oval in 2006, where he and fellow umpire Darrell Hair ruled that the visitors had been involved in ball tampering and awarded five penalty runs to England.

Pakistan refused to return to the field after tea in protest and the match was forfeited.



He retired from international umpiring in 2012 after officiating in 38 Tests, 112 ODIs and 17 Twenty20 internationals.

"I will give my all," Doctrove told Dominica News Online after his election. 

"The vote clearly indicates that member associations were not satisfied with where the Olympic Committee was going. 

"The boat was astray and we have been given the responsibility to bring it at an even keel.

"It’s going to take a lot, but I am confident in my Executive."

Glenn Etienne was also elected vice-president at the meeting while Barry Cashmir defeated incumbent Phillip White by eight votes to six to become the new treasurer.

The DOC was formed in 1993 and only recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) exactly 20 years after independence in 1998.

Athletes from the Caribbean island first competed at the Olympic Games at Atlanta 1996, but are yet to win a medal. 

Triple jumpers Thea LaFond and Cuban-born flagbearer Yordanys Durañona were the only members of the team at last year's Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Both were eliminated during qualifying.