Cameron's remarks follow the release of the domestic schedule earlier this week in which Oamaru's Whitestone Contracting Stadium missed out on hosting a fixture for a second consecutive summer.
"I'm gutted, really," Cameron said, when contacted for comment.
"Not having a first-class fixture really impacts on the marketing of the game.
"To be able to promote your sport you have to be able to see the best play so you can continue to create interest in your product." It appears the venue has fallen further behind the Queenstown Events Centre and Invercargill's Queens Park.
"We still have a New Zealand Cricket warrant of fitness, so that is no reason. It can't be said our facilities are not of a suitable standard.
"It makes it difficult to get the local authority to continue to provide input into your facilities to keep them to the standard that is required when you are not getting games."
Alexandra's Molyneux Park is in a worse spot. New Zealand Cricket withdrew the venue's warrant of fitness last season and transferred Otago's twenty/20 game against Northern Districts on December 29 to the University Oval in Dunedin.
Otago Country Cricket Association chairman Malcolm Jones was critical of the decision to remove the ground from the domestic schedule and estimated the economic loss to the community was about $100,000.
Jones was unavailable for comment yesterday but, in a passionate article published in December, the long-serving scorer and administrator wondered whether the ground had a future.
"It seems to me this decision by New Zealand Cricket to transfer this game and withdraw the warrant of fitness from Molyneux Park may be the beginning of the end for smaller provincial grounds such as ours and Centennial Park [Oamaru]."
Cameron said North Otago Cricket was not giving up on hosting top level cricket but he shared Jones's concern.
"We just have to keep putting the pressure on, I suppose, and to try and get back what we've lost. The difficult thing is the further on you get the more difficult it becomes to get back what you've had."
Cameron said a further hurdle was the venue was used for the Heartland Championship (rugby) and the ground was not available to cricket until November. That meant a suitable first-class wicket could not be guaranteed until after Christmas.
Otago Cricket Association chief executive Ross Dykes said the door was not shut to Oamaru or Alexandra but the facilities had to measure up.
"We are very aware it is a nice carrot for the districts to have some first-class cricket but the ground, and the infrastructure around it, has to be of a standard that you don't have to be putting all sorts of things in and doing somersaults...
"It is a decision made for this year in the best interests of Otago cricket."
