Former West Indies captain Brian Lara highlighted lack of funds and technology as factors in the team's recent decline, but also called upon the players to show more passion in order to compete better.

After West Indies' defeat to India in the first Test in Ahmedabad, Test captain Roston Chase highlighted "infrastructure problems" and the continuous "struggle for finances" in the Caribbean. This was touched upon by the cricket strategy and officiating committee of Cricket West Indies, of which Lara and Chase are both a part.

"If you want to get things done, you have to have the capital to do it. So that is a major part," Lara said on the sidelines of the CEAT Cricket Rating Awards in Mumbai on Tuesday. "But at the same time, I would like to urge Roston Chase and the other guys

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