Former West Indies skipper, Sir Clive Lloyd, is calling for a complete overhaul of the women’s division of Cricket West Indies.
During a recent conversation on the Mason and Guest radio programme, the two-time World Cup winning skipper was livid over the lackadaisical approach to the game during their T20I series against England recently.
“We need an overhaul of the situation, we have to take this thing seriously, get the right coaches, make sure if we have an academy, these girls should be attending the academy so they will learn the rudiments of the game and they have the right people teaching them how to approach batting, bowling and fielding,” Lloyd stated.
According to the Guyanese who now resides in the United Kingdom, “I am disappointed in the way they approached this…I am sure we have better players or our players are not performing like they did couple years ago I must say that a lot of our players have a lot of technical difficulties.”
Lloyd gave the example from his observations that most of the players were dismissed playing the square cut despite the bowler bowling inswingers and questioned, “who is coaching these women? We have to know.”
“I think if you are a cricketer of that high calibre situation you must know the rudiments of the game, the swinging ball and how you have to play it, how you have to approach a total, we have had them in trouble for quite a while and they scored 110 runs in 10 overs, we are giving away twos and ones, our fielding has been abysmal so I think we have to have an overhaul of the situation and try and have more women from the different islands playing cricket so these girls are going to be pushed,” he said.
He said that it was ridiculous that without the services of Deandra Dottin and Stefanie Taylor, the batting was extremely weak.
He made reference to Dottin’s opening partner and her sub-par average.
The Guyana cricket icon suggested that more needs to be done in order to make the women more competitive.
Caption: Sir Clive Lloyd believes there must be an overhaul of Women’s cricket in the Caribbean.
