PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former captain Clive Lloyd mentioned West Indies lacking the continuing ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 India was “hurtful,” and there was sufficient expertise within the Caribbean to show the fortunes of the staff round and guarantee it by no means occurs once more.
Lloyd, who led West Indies to victory within the first two World Cups in 1975 and 1979 in England, mentioned a extra direct and strategic strategy to the event of the game within the Caribbean was wanted to harness the expertise that he felt was evident.
“I really feel very dissatisfied once I see a staff such because the Netherlands, and we aren’t there,” Lloyd mentioned throughout a phone interview with I95 radio this previous Saturday within the Trinidad capital. “It’s hurtful, however we simply acquired too blasé about issues and didn’t take our sport critically.
“We’ve got some excellent cricketers, and most of them are needed worldwide in (franchise) cricket, so it’s not that he has a foul set of cricketers. However to get to a stage the place our cricketers, whether or not they prefer it or not – I don’t thoughts cricketers getting cash, any cricketer that makes cash I’m completely satisfied as a result of they put within the hours for it – however I’m in opposition to any cricketer who doesn’t wish to play for his or her nation.”
Lloyd mentioned gamers needed to perceive that they discovered the game within the West Indies system and wanted to return to be part of the staff when required.
He mentioned gamers additionally needed to notice that probably the most prolonged variations of the game – two-innings, four-day first-class, or five-day Assessments – play an important function in creating expertise within the shorter variations comparable to 50 overs-a-side and Twenty20.
“You have a look at our four-day cricket, it’s inferior to it needs to be,” he mentioned. “We’ve got numerous gifted cricketers, however they don’t perceive you will get mentally drained when you’re flying all over, and also you get stale … They only hold pondering you possibly can hold enjoying this T20 factor. You bought to begin enjoying the longer sport.”
Lloyd mentioned one other important a part of revitalizing the game within the Caribbean was the interplay between previous gamers and the current and rising skills to share data that may assist them to be extra profitable than gamers of the trendy technology.
“We’ve got acquired to get our senior gamers speaking to our children, imparting the data they’ve acquired over time,” he mentioned. “All people else is doing it besides us, and now we have (produced) a number of the best gamers on this planet, however we aren’t participating with them. Our children are left there to fend for themselves…”
He added: “We’ve got excellent cricketers, and I believe except we get to the stage the place we may give them that data to compete with the remainder of the world, the rot will proceed… It’s not the opposite groups are higher than us. It’s simply they’re getting higher grounding than us.”
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