On 26 November 2005 the Australian Prime Minister announced the $10 million Australian Sports Outreach Programme (ASOP) aimed predominantly at Commonwealth Countries. The ASOP runs from July 2006 to June 2011 and supersedes previous Australian Government sports development programmes in the Pacific, Southern Africa and the Caribbean. In the Caribbean, the ASOP is managed by the Trinidad and Tobago Alliance for Sport and Physical Education (TTASPE).

Under ASOP, the Academy of Sports and Leisure at UTT has been awarded a grant for a Cricket Coaching Programme. The UTT/ASOP Caribbean Cricket Coaching Programme is intended to support a cadre of budding West Indian cricketers who have been selected on athletic scholarship at the University of Trinidad and Tobago. All of the young cricketers have represented their respective islands at the regional level and some have already represented the West Indies at youth level competitions.

The selected cricketers are presently being coached by former West Indian cricketers, Tony Gray, Mervyn Dillon and Larry Gomes, with Brian Lara and Dinanath Ramnarine as Advisors. The proposed ASOP Cricket Coaching Programme is intended to benefit both the players and the coaches involved in the programme.

The West Indies Under 19 players, along with selected coaches from the region are also invited to participate in the programme that runs from June 4th to 13th 2008. The programme will be officially launched on Friday 9 May 2008.