CRICKET West Indies (CWI) president Dave Cameron says his organisation recognises as one of its problems, the unavailability of senior players but is working on a strategy to rectify it.

“Four of our players, and rightly so, have decided not to play for us in the ICC World Cup Qualifier, because they are making way more (money) than we can pay them.
That is the reality we are dealing with. The ICC is saying that that is a matter not for them, but a matter to be discussed in Australia, India, etc. and not for world cricket.

“You can understand the dilemma that we face. We are living in a small area of about five million not-so-rich people, and our players would like to earn at the same level as players in India, Pakistan and Australia. That is our challenge and we are facing that challenge front on, and, going forward we are looking at different ways and models to ensure that our players are given the opportunity to earn the maximum while making West Indies cricket great again,” said Cameron.

Despite Cameron’s apparent understanding of the situation facing players, last month he said it would be difficult to consider Darren Bravo, Sunil Narine and Kieron Pollard for future Windies call-ups after they, along with Andre Russell, declined an invitation to participate in World Cup qualifiers, scheduled to start in March.