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By Neto Baptiste
Legendary West Indies fast bowler, Sir Andy Roberts, is calling on the current crop of players to invest in the development of their personal game, suggesting that their weaknesses are easily identified from the stands and possibly by opponents.
His renewed plea comes amid regional discourse on the way forward, following the team’s poor showing with the bat, in the recently concluded Test series against Australia, which saw the regional side removed for just 27 runs on Monday.
“If our players cannot personally try to develop their cricket then we’re wasting our time and you know that is my personal topic, personal development. It is showing because the faults are glaring and they have been there for a long time so it means that these players only focus on certain things so, for not developing their skills, that is where I would hold them accountable,” he said.
Seven players, including captain Roston Chase, were removed for a duck against Australia on Monday with six of the 27 runs coming from extras.
Since Monday’s poor batting display, Cricket West Indies (CWI) President Dr Kishore Shallow, has invited a number of former greats to include legendary batsmen Sir Vivian Richards, Sir Clive Lloyd and Brian Lara to a special postmortem of the series.
Sir Andy however believes that it might just be too late.
“All of a sudden now, they are talking about the former players; I am retired from cricket over 30 years, Clive Lloyd retired from cricket over 30 years. We do some work from time to time but when you do work you have no clout but you give one man the clout to do everything,” the former player said.
Australian fast bowler, Mitchell Starc, picked up six wickets for nine runs in 7.3 overs while claiming the faster five-for ever in Test, which came in just 15 balls.
West Indies are going into the five-match T20I series starting on Sunday with the first match starting at 6:00pm in Jamaica.
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