KINGSTON, Ja­maica – In­cum­bent Crick­et West In­dies pres­i­dent, Dave Cameron, does not be­lieve he can lose Sun­day’s elec­tions, es­pe­cial­ly with three ter­ri­to­r­i­al boards al­ready in his cor­ner.

So much so, the Ja­maican says he has re­fused to do ex­ten­sive cam­paign­ing in the lead up to the heav­i­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed meet­ing here, as he seeks a fourth term in charge of crick­et’s re­gion­al gov­ern­ing body.

The Wind­ward Is­lands, Bar­ba­dos and Guyana have al­ready pledged their two votes to the Cameron tick­et which in­cludes vice-pres­i­dent, Em­manuel Nan­than, leav­ing the pair with six of the sev­en votes re­quired to win the elec­tions.

“If you no­ticed, I have not been cam­paign­ing,” the Glean­er news­pa­per here quot­ed Cameron as say­ing.

“We have three of the ter­ri­to­r­i­al boards com­ing out and clear­ly say­ing that they are in sup­port of the plans and the way for­ward. That means we have six of the pos­si­ble 12 votes.

“My un­der­stand­ing is that this means that we can’t lose.”

Cameron is up against chal­lenger Ricky Sker­ritt, the for­mer St Kitts and Nevis cab­i­net min­is­ter, while Nan­than is be­ing op­posed by St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent, Dr Kishore Shal­low.

The chal­lengers have al­ready gained sup­port from Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Lee­ward Is­lands, leav­ing the Ja­maica Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion – who are yet to de­clare their sup­port – as the crit­i­cal votes in the elec­tion.

Cameron said he was seek­ing re-elec­tion on the back of a suc­cess­ful record over his six-year tenure and was al­ready fo­cussing on plans to fur­ther West In­dies crick­et.

“The fo­cus for us is how do we do busi­ness. We lost US$22 mil­lion last year as a busi­ness,” Cameron point­ed out.

“Luck­i­ly we were able, with re­la­tion­ships we have in­ter­na­tion­al­ly and re­gion­al­ly, to fund those loss­es, short term, al­beit and we are now try­ing to put prop­er fi­nances in place for the medi­um to long term, while we now go to try to change the eco­nom­ics of world crick­et.”

He con­tin­ued: “We are look­ing to take the Windies pub­lic in two years. That, we be­lieve, will bring in some eq­ui­ty, but more im­por­tant­ly, it will get the peo­ple in the re­gion own­ing a piece of some­thing that is very dear to their hearts and emo­tion­al­ly at­tached.

“We have a mas­sive gap in our bal­ance sheet. When we took of­fice in 2013, we had a deficit of about US$6 mil­lion. We erased that in the next cou­ple of years and built up an ac­cu­mu­lat­ed bal­ance of US$5 mil­lion.”

(CMC)