Lloyd lambasts the lack of a ‘Thinking’ West Indies -‘We have constantly been outthought’
Former Guyana and West Indies captain Clive Lloyd.
Former Guyana and West Indies captain Clive Lloyd.

Former West Indies Captain and current Chairman of Selectors Clive Lloyd has taken a swipe at cricketers across the region, noting that the mental side of their game is not up to the standard of their opponents. Speaking during a recent ceremony, Lloyd noted that the current hit and miss status that the West Indies Cricket Team has incurred is based on the fact that there is a lack on the mental side of the game. “We’ve lost games over the last 15 or 20 years because of the superior thinking of the opposition. We haven’t really outthought the people that we were playing against. It’s not that we don’t have ability; we have some of the best players around but it’s just that they don’t think like the other people.” The controversial chairman of selectors who over the past 6 months has been the center of attention for the dropping of Guyanese Shivnarine Chanderpaul from the test side, reminded that cricket is a thinking man’s game and those who fail to remember this will always pay the price. The West Indies have won just one match in the last three test series. In the process however, they lost the Frank Worrell Trophy 2-0 to Australia earlier this year but drew the Wisden Trophy against England after they drew the first game, lost the second and won the third. They had a disastrous time when they toured South Africa before the World Cup as they lost the Sir Vivian Richards Trophy 2-0. Lloyd has been moving steadily toward building the West Indies team from the Ground up, often saying that giving the youth much needed exposure is one way that the regional side can begin its assent to the top of the longest format of the Game.

By Stephan Sookram

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