BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC)

West Indies Cricket Board president, Dr Julian Hunte, met with embattled chief executive officer, Dr Donald Peters, over lunch in Antigua yesterday and well-placed sources described the outcome as "cordial".

News of the meeting was first revealed yesterday afternoon by Dr Peters' lawyer, fellow Dominican Anthony 'Tony' Astaphan, during a wide-ranging interview with CMC Sports at a Barbados south coast hotel, where he was spending a couple days with his family and friends before flying to St John's this morning to meet with Dr Peters.

Following an emergency internal investigation into who was the source of leaked information relating to the spending of money for renovations to Dr Hunte's office in his native St Lucia, WICB corporate services manager Tony Deyal was fired on Monday and Dr Peters sent on administrative leave later the same day.

Dr Peters, who was appointed CEO last November 1, was also asked to have a hearing with the Finance, Audit and Human Resources committee of the board, which is headquartered in Antigua. That meeting has not materialised.

But Astaphan hit back in a letter to Dr Hunte, asking that Dr Peters return to work on Thursday, July 31, at 8 a.m.

Yesterday, Astaphan said he was subsequently sent an email by St Lucian lawyer Mario Mitchell on behalf of Dr Hunte and which he described as "confrontational".

It was then followed by what he termed "an exchange with the president and, unfortunately, I got a response from the president which was hostile and confrontational and I thought it best to just leave it for the moment".

"You may not know yet but the president invited the CEO to have lunch, to have a chat and I told the CEO that we must maintain the moral high ground of not wanting a confrontation because confrontation is not in the interest of West Indies cricket and the president invited you for lunch, that you should go," Astaphan told CMC Sports.

"I am right now waiting to see what comes out of this luncheon meeting before we decide what our next option is but I think one of the critical issues of concern to me and to the CEO is this a Board decision, is this the president's decision, is this some of the Board supporting the president, is it most of the Board supporting the president?

"I think the Board needs to come clean and indicate what its real position is because I am hearing things and I am reading things and I am seeing things, which is suggesting to me that probably all is not well in the state of Denmark in relation to this issue."