Pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI), Ricky Sker­ritt, will be hap­py if the West In­dies' tour of Eng­land can even­tu­al­ly pro­ceed but was clear in his dis­cus­sion with host An­dre Er­rol Bap­tiste on Is­ports on I95.5fm on Thurs­day, that all stake­hold­ers will be con­sult­ed.

"It is pre­ma­ture to try to think about what the terms and con­di­tions would be, there has been no con­fir­ma­tion of any­thing. Dif­fer­ent ideas have come up based on med­ical ad­vice," said Sker­ritt.

"Both or­gan­i­sa­tions have had, both med­ical­ly-ori­ent­ed and crick­et tech­ni­cal-ori­ent­ed dis­cus­sions, we have in­clud­ed the key crick­et folks, coach, cap­tain, man­ag­er, di­rec­tor of crick­et.

"CWI will not be mak­ing any de­ci­sions that don’t make sense un­der the cir­cum­stances, and un­less things change dra­mat­i­cal­ly over the next month or two, it will not be nor­mal cir­cum­stances, so cir­cum­stances that pre­vail and the sit­u­a­tion that are placed will be de­ter­mined to on­ly be suit­able if they are mu­tu­al­ly suit­able.

"This is go­ing to have to be a win-win tour in terms of the arrange­ment. No­body will be put at a dis­ad­van­tage, no­body will be abused. We are try­ing to put things in place where crick­eters can play crick­et, that is what crick­eters do, they make a liv­ing out of play­ing crick­et, and some crick­eters may have to make some ad­just­ments as we go along. It is pre­ma­ture to read some of these sto­ries, that have no ba­sis in truth."

The 63-year-old CWI head is aware of all the spec­u­la­tions cir­cu­lat­ing but as­sured that one thing about his team is that they be­lieve in, in­clu­sive­ly in plan­ning.

"We be­lieve in get­ting the stake­hold­ers in­volved in un­der­stand­ing what it is, they are get­ting in­to. Crick­eters are not go­ing to be jump­ing in­to a blind hole, in fact, they should not be jump­ing in­to a hole at all. We just have to make sure the terms and con­di­tions and the en­vi­ron­ment, good hy­giene, safe­ty are all in place and are clear and every­one is aware," said Sker­ritt.

As to claims of a sec­ond or third rate West In­dies team go­ing to Eng­land, he said, "We don’t have any ben­e­fit to gain by send­ing a weak­ened team to the UK, how­ev­er, if the ma­jor­i­ty of our de­ci­sion-mak­ers are in agree­ment with what the ECB (Eng­land Crick­et Board) is propos­ing and if all con­cern come to an un­der­stand­ing, that this is the best we can do, and then one or two play­ers de­cide that this is too oner­ous for them, that is their pre­rog­a­tive, we are not go­ing to force any­body any­where, to go any­where and play crick­et, they do not want to play.

"For­tu­nate­ly, we do not ex­pect that be­cause I do not see any rea­son for any­body to say they will be less safe in the UK than they will be at home un­der the cir­cum­stances."

Sker­ritt al­so spoke on the re­cent out­bursts on so­cial me­dia in­volv­ing Ja­maicans Chris Gayle and Mar­lon Samuels.

"I be­lieve that be­cause Chris Gayle is play­ing for a fran­chise in the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL), the process will have to take its course and I do not be­lieve this mat­ter is over and I hope this is not a 'whirl' mat­ter in his ca­reer and his ca­reer to be brought to an end by this."

All con­tract­ed play­ers with CWI have a clause in their con­tract that re­lates to "bring­ing the game in dis­re­pute" con­firmed Sker­ritt.

"If he was on a con­tract and to a cer­tain ex­tent be­cause he is in the CPL, we have a watch­ing in­ter­est, I am not con­don­ing and not judg­ing Chris but per­son­al­ly, I think this was un­for­tu­nate.

"As for Mar­lon Samuels, he is not un­der any con­tract so he can say what he wants."

Sker­ritt al­so touched on sev­er­al planned im­prove­ments to West In­dies women crick­et in terms of salaries and oth­er re­mu­ner­a­tions, par­tic­u­lar­ly to doc­tors, phys­io­ther­a­pists and oth­er an­cil­lary staff.

"There are times when some per­sons do not want jobs in women’s crick­et (off the field of play) be­cause of the salaries as com­pared to men’s crick­et, this is an­oth­er area we are work­ing on. We are al­so, over time, in­creas­ing the num­ber of women con­tract play­ers from 12 to 15 as well."

Sker­ritt ad­mit­ted that West In­dies crick­et, al­though mak­ing a prof­it re­cent­ly, over­all was in a loss po­si­tion and that the stag­ing of the T20 crick­et World Cup was ex­treme­ly im­por­tant for the fi­nan­cial sta­bil­i­ty of West In­dies crick­et.

"These sort of World events are very im­por­tant for our crick­et go­ing for­ward. ICC funds have not been as flour­ish­ing as crick­et West In­dies ex­pect­ed, that has again been a bit of a prob­lem, but the biggest prob­lem fac­ing ICC right now is the glob­al mar­ket for crick­et.

"ICC on­ly get mon­ey from big glob­al events and the big glob­al event is ob­vi­ous­ly World Cup T20 in Aus­tralia, that is slat­ed for Oc­to­ber. For­tu­nate­ly, Oc­to­ber is still a few months away and there is a bet­ter chance that this will hap­pen than say a Ju­ly tour to Eng­land. The bot­tom line is we want these world tour­na­ments to take place," said Sker­ritt.

He al­so re­vealed that a fi­nan­cial re­port with rec­om­men­da­tions on the state of West In­dies crick­et was be­ing dis­cussed at present among mem­bers of the board and that by Fri­day, the re­port on gov­er­nance and oth­er is­sues by the team of five was ex­pect­ed to be hand­ed in for dis­cus­sion at month's end.