Quote: As has become routine through its several crises over the past decade, the WICB has again been urged to seek the help of the inter-governmental Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in resolving potentially its most destructive dilemma yet.

In a letter to WICB president Dave Cameron, addressed to 'Your Excellency' and dated October 23, St Vincent and the Grenadines prime minister Ralph Gonsalves specifies the "preemptory and premature termination" of the West Indies tour of India. While recognising the "sole judiciary authority of the WICB to address the mountain of difficulties at hand", he recommended the urgent assembling of a three-member CARICOM group to help in finding "satisfactory ways out of the many-sided impasse".

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Gonsalves suggested four main subjects for discussion between the WICB and his projected CARICOM group.

Two concern the specific issue of the abandonment of the India tour. They are the resolution of the current dispute between the WICB, the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) and the players, and the settlement of the "many-sided tug-and-pull" between the WICB and the BCCI.

Two are more general. They would concentrate on the sustainable funding of West Indies cricket and the renewal of dialogue between the WICB and CARICOM's prime ministerial sub-committee on cricket on "further possible reforms in the management and administrative systems of WICB and West Indies cricket".