Hunte, whose resignation as vice-president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) was accepted yesterday, wants to see pay changes introduced in the wake of the pay controversy which delayed the start of the West Indies tour of South Africa.

``The payment of our players should be based on performance,'' Hunte, now St. Lucia's Ambassador to the United Nations.

``There is too much of a situation in which it doesn't really matter if they perform or not. It is not only the question of a trade union movement and whether the West Indies Cricket Board accepts it.

``They themselves must now understand that if they are a trade union, then the employees's side of it must be adhered to and be performance-related in so far as their work is concerned. It cannot be one-sided.''

The system he is proposing is commonplace in professional sports in the United States.

Hunte said that Pat Rousseau, the WICB president, had already been looking at conditions which exists in professional sports in the US with a view to introducing some of them for the benefit of the West Indies players.

Hunte was quick to assert that the board should never lock itself into a position in which it raised funds ``simply to pay players.''

Some of the WICB's money must be channelled into developing young cricketers in the region and to improving facilities and conditions in the region, he added.