DOUBTING DAVE

Cameron sees conflict of interest; wants stakeholders to decide on Shallow

Former Cricket West Indies (CWI) president Dave Cameron is questioning whether or not current president Dr Kishore Shallow can effectively balance his role at the helm of the regional body in charge of cricket, while simultaneously serving as St Vincent and the Grenadines’ Minister of Tourism.However, Cameron pointed to what he sees as a potential conflict of interest, highlighting that St Vincent contributes the least commercially to international cricket in the region, yet Shallow, as CWI president, also chairs the CWI committee responsible for deciding where international matches are hosted.

Cameron, speaking on the Mason and Guest radio programme on the Voice of Barbados on Tuesday, said the issue was not for CWI’s board of directors to decide but one that must be addressed by the organisation’s shareholders under its constitution.“I don’t watch the games but I do look at the highlights or lowlights. I have no good expectations. The truth is, a lot of us, we’re hoping and there is no real plan with numbers about how we get from where we’re at to where we want to be,” Cameron stated.

Initially, Cameron said he wasn’t going to bring up the issue but when asked directly about it by host Andrew Mason, the Jamaican said: “It is the shareholders who have elected you as president, so if there is a concern, the proper thing to do is to call an extraordinary AGM and have a conversation with stakeholders.”

Cameron,

You’re saying now that you could have acted. The obvious question is, you had the opportunity then, so why didn’t you?

You were warned about where this was heading, yet you still allowed Bassarath to consolidate influence, position himself as the power broker, and ultimately push you out. That wasn’t bad luck; it was a failure to read the room and respond decisively when it mattered.

If you want to rewrite the narrative today, start by accounting for the choices you made when you actually had authority, because from the outside, it looks less like you were blindsided and more like you ceded ground until there was none left.

At this point, the priority should be West Indies cricket, not personal vindication, not old scores. Step back from the administration and stop circling the game. The region can’t afford any more leadership drama, and your continued involvement only deepens the perception that this era has been a failure.

Sarge

Meanwhile Joshua et al “could see no” conflict of interest