Dave Cameron beats ex-Windies paceman Joel Garner to be re-elected WICB's President

Beating the challenge from former towering West Indies paceman Joel Garner, Dave Cameron has been re-elected as the President of the West Indies Cricket Board.

Cameron, a Jamaican, received eight of the 12 votes on offer from affiliates in Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands.

The WICB election followed weeks of campaigning centred around the abandoned tour of India by the Caribbean side, after the Board of Control of Cricket in India threatened the WICB with legal action costing millions of dollars in damages, Stuff.co.nz reported.

Cameron said that it's been a very difficult couple of months, adding that prior to that he believes that they were sailing smoothly. But, he admitted that every time there is a challenge, there is an opportunity and insisted that they have used that situation in India as an opportunity, and the opportunity they see coming out of this is that they are going to make West Indies cricket better.

Cameron, who was first elected president of the WICB in 2012 after defeating then incumbent president Julian Hunte, also faced backlash for a retweet, which criticised Jamaica and West Indies batsman Chris Gayle who failed with the bat in a World Cup match against Pakistan in Christchurch.

Meanwhile, incumbent vice president Emmanuel Nanthan was also returned to office after turning back Baldath Mahabir by a margin of 8-4, the report added.