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Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) wants an am­i­ca­ble end to the cur­rent le­gal bat­tle be­tween them­selves and for­mer se­lec­tors Court­ney Browne and El­dine Bap­tiste.

This is the word from CEO of CWI Jon­ny Graves, speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia Sports last evening. The le­gal firm of Thomas, John and Co. act­ing on be­half of Browne and Bap­tiste has writ­ten to the Labour Com­mis­sion of An­tigua and Bar­bu­da stat­ing that their clients were is­sued with ter­mi­na­tion let­ters by CWI on April 10, 2019. They stat­ed that the board made the ref­er­ence of a Task Force es­tab­lished to re­view the se­lec­tion sys­tem at all lev­els and that the com­mit­tee will be chaired by vice-pres­i­dent Dr Kishore Shal­low and is ex­pect­ed to present rec­om­men­da­tions to the board at this next meet­ing in June.

The May 7 le­gal let­ter to the Crick­et Board high­light­ed 19 com­plaints with re­gards to the re­moval of Browne and Bap­tiste as se­lec­tors.The lawyers, how­ev­er, are con­tend­ing that their clients have been de­nied earn­ings by be­ing axed. They out­lined that Browne stand to earn US$71,000 an­nu­al­ly plus US$6,000 tele­phone costs. Bap­tiste was to earn US$51,600 plus US$3,600 a year's tele­phone pay­ment.

Graves said: "As in­de­pen­dent con­trac­tors of the board, we de­cid­ed to of­fer the guys three months pay af­ter April. We were well with­in the line in terms of their con­tract to play this amount if we de­cid­ed to end it."At the point in time di­rec­tor of crick­et Jim­my Adams and my­self called the se­lec­tors and spoke to them, let­ting them know that af­ter the rec­om­men­da­tion from the se­lec­tors come in, they are free to re-ap­ply for their po­si­tions or any oth­er po­si­tions that will be ad­ver­tised. We re­in­forced to them that we ex­pect­ed and want­ed them to ap­ply for fu­ture po­si­tions."