For­mer pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Dave Cameron said that the changes made by the cur­rent board to the man­age­ment of the West In­dies team were not ben­e­fi­cial.

The West In­dies is now of­fi­cial­ly out of the 2019 ICC World Cup with two match­es to play. The team has lost five of their sev­en match­es to date, with a record that com­pris­es one win, and one end­ed in a no-re­sult.

Cameron in an ex­clu­sive in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia Sports said: "I am dis­ap­point­ed with the re­sults and mak­ing the changes to the man­age­ment set up were not ben­e­fi­cial."

When Cameron lost the elec­tion and new pres­i­dent Ricky Sker­ritt took over, they im­me­di­ate­ly re­moved Richard Py­bus as the coach and in­stalled Floyd Reifer as in­ter­im coach. The board then set up a task force to work on rec­om­men­da­tions to im­prove the se­lec­tion set-up and in­stal­la­tion of a Head coach.

Very soon the board will ad­ver­tise the po­si­tion of the head coach and Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) of CWI John­ny Grave said that all will be giv­en a fair chance once they ap­ply.

Py­bus was in charge of the West In­dies team ear­li­er this year that de­feat­ed Eng­land to re­tain the Wis­den Tro­phy and al­so drew the Colo­nial Med­ical In­sur­ance Cup 2-2. Cameron con­tin­ued: "

They didn’t have the right coach­ing sup­port. You can­not put per­sons in charge of the set­up with­out a track record. I am a man about mer­i­toc­ra­cy. Those coach­es at the World Cup have not earned the right in our sys­tem to be there."

The Ja­maican then asked the ques­tion: "It is al­most the same team that drew with Eng­land a few months ago. What’s the dif­fer­ence?"

He al­so shared his opin­ion on the fit­ness of the play­ers, say­ing:" Al­so we are com­pro­mis­ing the fit­ness stan­dards. An­dre (Rus­sell) was around ear­li­er this year and we didn’t play him be­cause he was in­jured and we take him and Evin in­to the World Cup in­jured."

Rus­sell left the team af­ter the sixth match and had surgery on his trou­ble­some left knee in Man­ches­ter. He was re­placed by Wind­ward Is­lands play­er Sunil Am­bris, who made 31 in his first en­counter against In­dia.

Lewis has been in and out of the team with re-oc­cur­ring in­juries. "Those de­ci­sions are for man­age­ment and not the play­er." He al­so had some ad­vice for the di­rec­tors of the board say­ing: "In mov­ing for­ward let's make it less about the per­son and more about the pol­i­cy."

He end­ed by say­ing that it is al­so wrong to have the coach and cap­tain as se­lec­tors.

The West In­dies next match at the World Cup will be on Mon­day when they op­pose Sri Lan­ka in Durham.