Wally Edwards: ICC keen to help West Indies resolve current crisis

Wally Edwards, the chairman of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) executive committee, said the cricket governing body is keen to help West Indies cricket end their current impasse. The chairman of Cricket Australia (CA) also mentioned that West Indies, as a cricket entity, will not be lost.

Failing to resolve a salary dispute, the West Indies cricket team abruptly ended their tour of India, which infuriated the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The Indian cricket board, threatened to sue West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and had even indicated that it would sever bilateral cricketing ties with West Indies.

Edwards, who acknowledged that the BCCI were "extremely disappointed, as we would be, if a team just leaves when all arrangements are in place", added that the ICC were keen to settle the issue.

"I think there's a genuine desire at the ICC next week to get things back on track. In the past you'd talk about these things but you could never resolve anything in previous administrations at the ICC because there were factions all round the table and it was very difficult to have good quality debates then make a decision," he said, following CA's annual general meeting.

"But we have now got a fully functioning board and it's well led. Mr Srinivasan's doing a great job in leadership, he's not only leading the board, he's leading the administration, and I think we're in a good place now to move world cricket forward the way it should. We'll go to Dubai next week to hear what the issues are, and I think we're in good shape to try and solve it," Edwards added.

While mentioning that the ICC cannot imagine losing West Indies as a cricket entity, Edwards expressed confidence that the salary issue will be resolved while adding that the ICC cannot would not be involved in actual salary negotiations.

"I don't believe they will be lost, I can't imagine that. They've had disputes before, they've had ongoing rumblings there for quite a while, and I feel confident they will get resolved. I don't ever see a system where the world will all put a player pool together and everyone gets the same amount, that's not possible. I don't think ICC will be delving into those sorts of issues."