Dottin: She can hardly play to the offside and depends on the slog sweep. Every team knows this and they just keep the ball outside off stump. She is like a cripple and has been on the downside for eons. What is her value to the side?

S Taylor: She has never learnt to play the cut shot and her game is not suited for the power game (T20 cricket). Taylor will never turn a T20 on its head. She is too timid as a batter and she eats up plenty balls and puts tremendous pressure on her fellow batters.

Q. Joseph: She bats like she is playing the lottery...random numbers to decide what to hit; She can only play on the leg side; she will never be a consistent batter as she has no clue about the technical aspects of batting. I believe the coach can give her a finishing role at #7 as she has improved her bowling She is a better bowler than a batter.

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This current side is a two player team...Hayley and Henry with the ocassional contribution from Campbell.

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However the batting resources can be tweaked to provide a modicum of hope for upcoming T20 World Cup. It's a pity Eboni Brathwaite was not included in the squad.

Mathews

Campblell

Glasgow

Claxton

Henry

Alleyne

Joseph.(all rounder)

The cupboard is threadbare...but what to do?

@Courtesy

Do you (or anyone) know where the money comes from to support, develop and maintain women’s cricket at all levels in the region?

@imusic

There are domestically funded programmes throughout the region but CWI struggles to fund the West Indies team.

The quality of cricket in the region is so poor most sponsors shy away...

@Courtesy

I figured ICC must provide some form of financial assistance to cricket boards, especially boards like ours with relatively scarce resources compared to others.

@imusic

The ICC financial resource allocation formula is severely skewed to favour three cricketing nations.

We have debated this issue ad nauseam here. The rest of the disadvantaged cricketing world hold no sway in the decision making of ICC.

West Indies cricket has become a casualty of an inequitable global cricket system. We can only improve our fortunes by improving the quality of our players. This is virtually impossibly in the absence of adequate resources.

There are a few other peripheral factors including a poor goverance structure but in the main, it all bowls down to "no money no love."

@Courtesy

Then it’s incumbent on the marketing and sales people at CWI to secure appropriate sponsorship.

Thats their job

@imusic

Try as they might sales persons will always have difficulty selling poor products.

West Indies cricket has gone to the dogs.

@Courtesy

That is true.

Also true in my opinion that it is not financially sustainable to have BOTH men’s and women’s teams in every format.

As terrible as the men’s performances have generally been, the women are worse.

I’m not sure if the women’s game brings in any revenue at all to CWI coffers. If that’s the case, it suggests that the Men’s game essentially subsidizes the women’s game in all formats.

However, in this day and age you MUST have both.

@Courtesy

Are you suggesting increasing returns with the men's team?

@Besar

No...the content for the thread would have been limited to Roston Chase.

The international trend in women's sports has been visible for sometime. The growth in fan interest and the allocation of financial resources has been on an upward trajectory for a while. CWI and corporate Caribbean are missing a trick by not working on the development of women's cricket.

@Fantom

I beg to disagree with regard to the inadequate contribution made by CWI. In the context of limited financial resources they have done a decent job.

The problem emanates from the local level. Little attention is paid to the technical abilities of our cricketers thus CWI receives sub par cricketers.

This lack of skillset bedevils any attempt to improve the product and this is where we are stuck.

Domestic cricket development is not the responsibility of CWI.

@Courtesy

Wow! I agree 100% with your post. MY next post was exactly the points you made.

😀

@Fantom

I am happy that Saint Lucia has been able to identify the root of the problem and has allocated substantial resources in setting up the Saint Lucia High Performance Centre..

It would be great if this initiative is replicated in all islands without academies.

Kudos to the Ministry of Sports in Saint Lucia.

Yes I. Even though I could not spell her name, I thought she was our most innovative player to open the batting and make use of our meagre resources.

Thank you Campbelle.