Noted sports psychologist and cricket coach Joe Hoad called on the entire West Indies population to wake up and come together to uplift their cricket before it is too late.
“People have to realise that Australia is a complete team. The taxi driver driving you to the cricket will tell you Australia is going to win but in the West Indies people are more interested in dollars and cents. They criticise and criticise but they don’t do anything,†Hoad told The Nation.
“It makes no sense to me the whole West Indies will have to wake up, administrators, coaches, selectors and everybody must come together and say what is best for West Indies cricket. How can we climb this ladder again? It can be done. We’ve done it before and we can do it again. But it needs an all round effort,†he said.
Explaining the gradual decline of West Indies cricket, Hoad said, “West Indies cricket at it strongest rung always had very good players waiting to get into the team. The standard of cricket was very high at club level. There were a lot more people playing cricket and the wider the bottom of the pyramid, the higher it goes. There were a lot of people who saw the amount of money you could make if you were playing basketball in America. A lot of people went that way because we had very tall people descending from the tribes of Africa. A lot of scouts went and took up these guys, who would have normally played cricket, to America to play their sport and the money was fantastic.
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