They were all castigated as mercenaries, ruffians and disloyal. As bravo said in an interview, they weren't only fighting for themselves.

Brian Lara(199

: The South Africa team, as with England and Australia, could take sponsorship for granted, but not the West Indies. They were supported by Sandals, the holiday company, during their United Kingdom tour of 1995, with the tourist industry an obvious commercial connection.

The players' tour fee for the forthcoming South Africa tour, as set out by their basic West Indies board contract, was lower than for their Australia tour two years ago. The stand made against these terms by Brian Lara, the captain, and Carl Hooper, his deputy, was interpreted as trouble-making by the board, who sacked them last week, before 100 per cent solidarity from their team-mates inflated this dissent to a full-blown crisis.

Chris Gayle(2009):

">The day that the West Indies team is not in dispute with their board will be a first, something that an insider who has been close to the negotiations described delightfully as "Groundhog Day every year". But this one involves a number of specific grievances that could threaten the integrity of a tour that, in any case, is an adjunct to rather than a direct part of the ICC Future tours progamme. That is because they are standing in first for Zimbabwe, who were originally scheduled to come, and then for Sri Lanka, whose board had offered to send the national team, only to be overruled so that they, too, could play in the IPL instead.

">Dwayne Bravo(2014)

But Bravo and his team-mates insisted that they would want the old structure back. Only because under the new MoU, the players "understand" their Test, ODI and T20 fees "have been decreased by 75%"; that they will receive "no compensation for the use of our rights. That has been decreased by 100%"; and their ICC fees have been "decreased by close to 100%"

https://www.cricinfo.com/story/west-indies-win-sponsorship-deal-9-november-1998-76859

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/mar/26/west-indies-cricket-team-ipl

https://www.cricinfo.com/story/west-indies-players-mull-strike-over-pay-structure-787941

but the current lot i have little sympathy for. When the big idiot was exiling his perceived enemies from WI cricket, retweeting statuses on X calling for star west indies players to retire, they said nothing(at least publicly). the price for being Japanese salary men. take yuh -25%