"The infrastructure and what's necessary to produce good cricket is not there in the West Indies.

"I'm interested in what are we doing at the grassroots level and I don't see anything in that direction," he said.

"It doesn't matter who is the coach or who is playing -- if the infrastructure isn't there, you're not going to produce the cricket you want to see."

Lara is arguably the greatest batsman ever produced by West Indies, having scored almost 12,000 runs in 131 Tests and over 10,000 in 299 one-day internationals.