West Indies Women’s Head Coach Shane Deitz confesses that while talent abounds in women’s cricket in the Caribbean, he has concerns about the nurturing of it to find the future of the West Indies Women’s Senior team.
Despite his concerns, Deitz is hopeful that programmes can be implemented early enough to mould the future of West Indies women’s cricket.
“We’ve got to get the girls coming up and there’s come girls coming up making hundreds, making fifties, winning games for their country more regularly. So, it’s a little bit of a concern. Bowling wise, a lot of good young spinners who bowled really well at times. So, there’s a lot of positives for the future. But with the batting, we got to keep working with these youngsters and give them the exposure, knowledge, skills, techniques, and support, training programmes to get them to improve, which I’m sure they will.”
Deitz said it was important for CWI, in conjunction with the territorial Boards, to put systems in place to give the younger players the opportunity to develop their individual skills, which will allow them to build a competitive team.
“Well, I think the main thing is that the players need to have a 12-month training programmes and not just come together just before the regional tournament for a few weeks, put a team together and that’s gonna be enough at the tournament. These tournaments are important, but that individual player development is pretty much a 12-month, year in, year out process that needs to be supported in all regions.