Sir Garfield Sobers, who is helping to coach a 22-man West Indies squad at a week-long training camp here, says he cannot understand the reason for the team's recent failures. "I think we have a lot of youngsters coming on and I really can't see the reason for all of our failures", Sobers told a local television station, CCN TV6, on Friday night.

"I would like to see what I can do to help and get the West Indies cricket team back on top."

He said he was delighted that the WICB president Wes Hall and others involved had invited him to come to Trinidad and have a look at the players preparing for the series against India next month.

"What I intend to do is to have a chat with them, have a look, then take it from there and see what I can do to help.

"They have had a lot of people working with them before. The things I might say to them might have been said before."

Also assisting the players is former West Indies fast bowler, Antiguan Andy Roberts.

The cricketers, accompanied by coach Roger Harper and manager Ricky Skerritt, are involved in the camp under the supervision of physiotherapist Ronald Rogers.

Meanwhile, Brian Lara is still suffering from the fractured left elbow sustained in Sri Lanka last December, although he said he hopes to be fit for the start of the five-Test series against India, which begins on April 11.

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