West Indies cricket bosses, players and their union representatives have all been blamed for October’s catastrophic abandonment of the tour of India.

The West Indies team left India four matches into a five-game one-day series after a pay dispute between players and the board, with the fifth one-dayer, a subsequent Twenty20 international and three Tests abandoned.

It was a decision that prompted India to demand $US42 million ($A45.44 million) in compensation and damages.

A task force set up by the West Indies Cricket Board has spread the blame for the debacle and laid out a raft of recommendations ranging from clear guidelines for players’ contracts to appointing a team psychologist for touring parties.

It also insisted on “bonding sessions” between officials and players to help rescue the battered reputation of a team which was once the most feared in the world.

“There is something fundamentally wrong in sending a team to faraway places with only an historical view of their terms of employment and then to radically change those historical terms after they arrive in that distant place,” said the report, which was made public late Sunday.

“It was the conclusion of the players in India that their compensation would be reduced by some 70 per cent.”

The task force, which included lawyers Michael Gordon and Richard Cheltenham as well as legendary former fast bowler Wes Hall, said that it was wrong for the players to be left in the dark over their contractual entitlements.

On this point, both the WICB and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) were at fault.

The players, many of whom have been locked in long-running disputes with the WICB, did not escape censure for abandoning the tour.

“A significant proportion of the blame for the termination of the tour must also lie with the players, and in particular their leaders,” added the statement.