DELHI, India, CMC
FORMER West Indies captain Clive Lloyd believes West Indies lacks inspirational leadership.
Lloyd, whose record as captain included a run of 26 Tests without defeat and 11 successive wins, feels Brian Lara has not provided the kind of motivation that would propel West Indies to be more victorious.
"Lara, in spite of his batting genius, is not a very inspiring captain," remarked Lloyd, who was attending the launch of the ICC Awards earlier this week.
"But the problem with West Indies is that they need to galvanise themselves into a winning combination. Winning is contagious just like losing, and they have to get into the habit of winning once again."
Lloyd, the first West Indian to win 100 Test caps, is now an International Cricket Council Match Referee and thinks that India has the potential to be "world champions of the near future".
He termed the batting talent as "mind-boggling" and also compared the excitement generated by the Indians to the West Indies sides of which he was captain in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
EXPOSED
Lloyd has beseeched the ICC to simplify the laws of cricket so that bowlers with dubious actions can be exposed early in their careers.
"The coaches and bowlers should know what an illegal ball is," he said.
"So that we don't have guys coming up in Test matches and then we have to embarrass them and their country by calling them for throwing. So it's something that must be eradicated quite early."
Lloyd concluded that all countries should send the tapes of their aspiring bowlers to the ICC for vetting and if a player's action was modified, he still had to be constantly monitored.
