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Brian Lara feel if not the Caribbean cricket infrastructure is better just talent can't pull the side out of the slump.
"(We) still a very long way to go. I would not have been astonished if we won this game because I know what we are able of - sporadic, good sporadic performance - one here, one next year, but in terms of steadiness, Trinidad, West Indies lack that, and that is not something that you recover overnight," he told the Caribbean Tourism Organization.
"I think our infrastructure is terrible managerially, we have got it wrong on many occasions."
Lara, who scored 11,953 runs in 131 Tests before reserved after the 2007 Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean, said West Indies need to plug the administrative loophole first and then think of humanizing in a decade's time.
"Our player-board relationship - that has gone wrong for many years, gone sour and we need to get better these things, fix it, set a base, get the infrastructure in and then think about five, 10 years down the line.
"So it might be a miserable outlook, but if we keep just trying to put a splash on every sore that we have, it's not going to work. So, I hope one day somebody's going to take it up and really get things going."
West Indies had taken a 95-run first innings lead against India in the opening Test in Delhi but were then bundle out for 180 in their second essay as India fight back to win the Test.
"As I said, on any given day, I think we've got the best gifted cricketers in the world," said Lara.
"It's always been the case over the years, since even before my days ... cricket has gone a long way now. Talent is only a very small part compared to 20, 30 years ago, when it was a major part - your physical fitness, your talent - that played a bigger role.
Lara said Trinidad and Tobago had mismanage the talent.
"Now (with) technology, there is a lot of things coming into play and I say it all the time - we in the West Indies take very good talent and make it average and people (in places) like Australia and England and India take average talent and make it very, very good, and that is where the problem lies," he said.
"(We) still a very long way to go. I would not have been astonished if we won this game because I know what we are able of - sporadic, good sporadic performance - one here, one next year, but in terms of steadiness, Trinidad, West Indies lack that, and that is not something that you recover overnight," he told the Caribbean Tourism Organization.
"I think our infrastructure is terrible managerially, we have got it wrong on many occasions."
Lara, who scored 11,953 runs in 131 Tests before reserved after the 2007 Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean, said West Indies need to plug the administrative loophole first and then think of humanizing in a decade's time.
"Our player-board relationship - that has gone wrong for many years, gone sour and we need to get better these things, fix it, set a base, get the infrastructure in and then think about five, 10 years down the line.
"So it might be a miserable outlook, but if we keep just trying to put a splash on every sore that we have, it's not going to work. So, I hope one day somebody's going to take it up and really get things going."
West Indies had taken a 95-run first innings lead against India in the opening Test in Delhi but were then bundle out for 180 in their second essay as India fight back to win the Test.
"As I said, on any given day, I think we've got the best gifted cricketers in the world," said Lara.
"It's always been the case over the years, since even before my days ... cricket has gone a long way now. Talent is only a very small part compared to 20, 30 years ago, when it was a major part - your physical fitness, your talent - that played a bigger role.
Lara said Trinidad and Tobago had mismanage the talent.
"Now (with) technology, there is a lot of things coming into play and I say it all the time - we in the West Indies take very good talent and make it average and people (in places) like Australia and England and India take average talent and make it very, very good, and that is where the problem lies," he said.
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