27th June 2019

West Indies ‘lacks awareness’ – Clive Lloyd

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By SSO

SSO - Former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd has questioned the balance of the West Indies squad and has also urged the struggling squad to improve its situation awareness in order to turn around their form at the ongoing ICC World Cup.

Lloyd said the lack of an off spinning all rounder like Roston Chase and more batsmen with the ability of Shai Hope had hampered the West Indies performance.

Lloyd believes that Chase could play the same role as Moeen Ali does with England. In his opinion West Indies have a lot of good strikers of the ball but they don’t have a player like a Larry Gomes to stick around or Royston Chase who can also do the job.

He believes that despite the criticism over Hope’s strike rate, what you need is someone who can stick around with him.

Lloyd further said the missed chances pointed to their lack of awareness of what was required to win matches, especially against Australia, Bangladesh and New Zealand. For in these games they were not really outplayed by them.

It is just a question of not putting the clinical touches necessary to win games he pointed out. It’s just about reading the game properly. He do hope the players have learnt from their mistakes and that they can rectify them because they are a talented bunch of cricketers.

Lloyd however, praised the quality of the talent in the West Indies side, but said both batsmen and bowlers needed to produce bigger performances more consistently.

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