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Former West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) CEO Dr. Ernest Hilaire has described the West Indies cricket team’s exit in the T20 World Cup on Friday as ‘painful’.
“It’s really painful. How can the West Indies not qualify for a World T20 or any world cup for that matter? It is unacceptable. Totally unacceptable,” Hilaire said in response to reporters’ questions on the matter on Monday.
The acting Prime Minister of Saint Lucia spoke on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting.
He said there needed to be a big change in what was happening.
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“It’s not working,” the Acting Prime Minister of Saint Lucia asserted.
“Yes, it is difficult, but obviously, what is happening is not working. The West Indies didn’t qualify for a World Cup, and in the last ten years or so, we won two World Cups and now we can’t qualify for the super twelve?
Hilaire noted that Scotland and Ireland beat the West Indies team.
However, regarding the involvement of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), he said he was not sure that governments could solve the problem.
“I know that governments can help solve it, but I don’t know that governments can solve it. Cricket West Indies must address the issue and take the lead in addressing the issue. It has nothing to do with CARICOM,” Hilaire asserted.
He told reporters that CARICOM has enough problems of its own.
Asked to identify the problem with the West Indies team, Hilaire said it was not a simple matter.
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However, he said he always believed that to create an environment of excellence, there must be discipline, focus and the right people in the position.
He recalled when he became the CEO of the West Indies Cricket Board under Julian R. Hunte.
“We had a clear plan of what we were going to create and what were the paths to success. Some people did not like the tough stance we took in dealing with the issues,” he told reporters.
“But within three years we won a World Cup,” Hilaire said.
“I have confidence in what we did and how we did it, and I believe we need to go back to some of those lessons that we learned,” he said.
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