Newly-appointed West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) CEO Michael Muirhead believes that the widely-publicised impasse between Jamaica star batsman Chris Gayle and the regional body could have been handled much differently.

Muirhead, who was guest speaker at Melbourne’s annual dinner presentation at the club’s home on Saturday, is hoping that Gayle carries no ill-feeling from that episode and is ready to do his best to promote West Indies cricket.

“This is a very sensitive subject and I won’t dwell on it,” the former Tourism Product Development Company executive director declared.

“But as an outsider I was concerned that Chris wasn’t playing for us,” he stated.

The new CEO only gave scant views on the subject, but said he felt there was a better way of handling the situation, while adding that it is important that the matter is resolved.

“Being on the outside I had my own opinion then, but it was resolved,” he continued diplomatically, “although it took government intervention and certain people to assist the process.

“But I would like to think that Chris holds no animosity towards us (WICB) and in the interest of WI cricket he will still put out his best in order to promote regional cricket,” he said.

“But Chris is a star out there and I guess stars have their idiosyncrasies,” he added.

The 33-year-old Gayle was dropped from the West Indies team in March of 2011 and spent over a year in exile from the senior team.

However, after much rambling between former CEO Ernest Hilaire, the board and the regional players’ union, the highly rated batsman was returned to the squad.

Now the new WIBC CEO believes that in future matters like this all parties must exercise compromise.

“There is nothing to be gained by keeping daggers drawn, we must come together and look for settlements in areas that need to be settled and compromise where we have to compromise,” he said.