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Guyanese pair leading performers for T&T club
Jun 17, 2010 Sports
– feels current youngsters not working hard enough
By Sean Devers in Trinidad
Former Demerara and Guyana First-Class player Robin Browne and ex- Berbice senior team swing bowler Luke Latiff were the top performers for their Trinidad club Sweet Revenge for the 2010 season which ended this month.
The Guyanese pair spearheaded their club, which also include Guyanese Shawn DeSouza, Kapil Dev Singh and David Dick, to win the Super League and gain promotion to the Championship League division for next season.
The 40-year-old old Browne, the younger brother of former West Indies fast bowler Barrington Browne and elder brother of Police Division One opening batsman Rawle Browne, scored 354 runs at an average of 50.57 from six three-day matches while 38-year-old Skipper Latiff captured 37 scalps from six matches to outperform their younger teammates.
DeSouza scored 316 runs at an average of 45.1 while Dick made 280 runs at an average of 35. The left-handed Singh, the other Guyanese in the team, had a poor season, managing just 94 runs from six matches at an average of 13.43.
Browne said that the main difference between the present young players and those from the time when he played at the Regional youth level in the late 1980s was their attitude towards the game.
“The youngsters here (Trinidad) and in Guyana have talent but they don’t work hard enough and if the youths coming up now don’t change their attitude to the game, West Indies cricket will continue to struggle despite how much talent there is,” Browne opined.
Browne, who also Kept Wicket for Guyana at the senior Regional One-Day level, added that the mental aspects of the game is the biggest problem in West Indies cricket and feels that if urgent measures are not taken to change the mind-set of the players, who seem more interested in how fancy they look and how much money they can make, instead of trying to perform consistently, the standard of West Indies cricket will remain where it is.
Latiff, a stand-by for the 1989 Guyana under-19 side, agreed with Browne and said that many of the youngsters spend more time talking about their mostly ordinary performances and not enough time working on improving themselves as cricketers.
“The times have changed since I played at the Senior Inter-County level in the 1990s with players like Clayton Lambert, Sudesh Dhaniram, Roger Harper, Clyde Butts and other senior guys.
As a youngster you had to train hard and I remember we (Berbice players) used to hope for Lambert to arrive late from England since he was very serious with training. Many players don’t train hard enough now.
They wait until they are in a national squad or trials…no wonder there is so much injury these days,” Latiff said.
Now married and resident in the Twin-Island Republic since 2001, Latiff says there is lots of talent in West Indies cricket but feels that while the players still love the game, they don’t have the passion and commitment needed to become real professionals.
“You get the impression that the present West Indies players judge their success by how much money they make and not how many runs they score or wickets they take. Nobody should begrudge the players what they earn but they also need to do produce or be fired as in any other job situation,” Latiff concluded.
Several Guyanese, including former Test leg-spinner Mahendra Nagamootoo who Captains Moosai Sports, participate in the Trinidad season which runs from January to June.
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