FAZEER ON WI WOMEN

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Cricket analyst Fazeer Mohammed feels the women's game in the Caribbean has been neglected hence the reason for the dismal showing.  This comes in the wake of the West Indies team's T20 and ODI series losses to India on the subcontinent, with coach Shane Deitz also concerned about the situation.

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00:00The West Indies women have been struggling in white ball cricket, especially the 50 over

00:04format.

00:05They were recently whitewashed 3-0 by India and missed out on crucial World Cup qualification

00:09points.

00:11Cricket analyst Fazeer Mohammed feels not much is being done for the women's game in

00:14the Caribbean.

00:15Head coach Shane Dietz's concerns about the standard of the women's game merely confirms

00:21essentially what has been happening to women's cricket in the Caribbean, neglect.

00:26And that's the bottom line.

00:27Whether it has to do with finances, whether it has to do with priorities, whether at the

00:32administrative level of Cricket West Indies or the territorial level of the various countries

00:37including right here in Trinidad and Tobago, it is quite obvious that the women's game

00:42has not just stagnated but regressed as far as the standards are concerned.

00:47With the ODI World Cup taking place in India in 2025, time will tell if the Wendy's qualify

00:52for the prestigious tournament.

00:54When Mohammed looks back at what the Wendy's were able to achieve in the past to where

00:58they are now, he says it's quite painful.

01:00There may be more young ladies playing the game but where is that drive towards the levels

01:05of excellence that we saw a West Indies team, one, winning a world T20 title in 2016 but

01:11even three years before reaching the final of a 50 over tournament and at that stage

01:17the feeling certainly was that the game was on the up and up.

01:21Mohammed also believes the ladies in Maroon rely too much on the big names.

01:24He says the Wendy's are lagging behind while the others are making huge strides.

01:29Even the players who are coming in to the West Indies team are clearly lacking in a

01:34level of excellence, a level of preparedness, a level of fitness to match the best teams

01:39in the world, the likes of Australia, the new T20 champions New Zealand, England, India.

01:44It really redounds to the authorities regionally, territorially to either prioritise, find the

01:51finances, get the sponsorship but that requires a level of effort and determination and commitment

01:57to the women's game which at this point is sadly lacking.

02:01The West Indies women will also be playing Test cricket in 2026 following a two decade

02:05hiatus in the Red Bull format.

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