The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) will soon call a special meeting to discuss the latest situation over the monies owed to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) due to the aborted tour last year.
The WICB recently held their annual general meeting in Jamaica, where Dave Cameron was returned as president of the regional cricket body and on the agenda was the board's finances. This was the last item up for discussion and the India situation would have come up at this time but the meeting did not finish and had to be adjourned.
No discussion was held during the meeting about the Indian fiasco and the WICB will set a date soon for the directors to meet to be apprised of the situation and the way forward.
The West Indies cricket team, led by Dwayne Bravo, decided to abort their tour of India last year, after playing four of five One Day matches. The reason behind the decision was a pay dispute between the players and the WICB.
The players were up in arms over the fact that they had to part with their image rights fee, as part of a plan put forward by the WICB to assist in funding the Professional Cricket League (PCL) back in the Caribbean.
As a result of the aborted tour, the BCCI quantified their losses at US$41.97 million. They had given the WICB a deadline for payment but the cash-strapped WICB was unable to make the payment. Cameron has stated that he was looking for cricketing solutions to assist with the payments.
There has been talk of a West Indies team making a stop over in India after their upcoming tour of Sri Lanka later this year to play a series of matches but this has not been confirmed of denied by officials of the WICB.
The BCCI has suspended all bi-lateral relations with the WICB over the aborted tour and the International Cricket Council (ICC) has now been asked to mediate with the hope that the Indians can resume relations.
They were supposed to tour the Caribbean in 2016 and if they fail to come the WICB could stand to lose around US$65M, so it may well be a situation of having a change of heart in order to get their money.