Lon­don-For­mer Eng­land cap­tain Ge­of­frey Boy­cott feels that West In­dies crick­et will have a "gloomy" fu­ture be­cause of its un­der­fund­ed in­fra­struc­ture as well as the change in so­ci­etal trends which had led to its ear­li­er suc­cess. Boy­cott made the com­ments dur­ing his pod­cast "Bowl at Boycs" on Cricin­fo.com this week. Asked whether he thought the suc­cess of Twen­ty20 crick­et could cre­ate a resur­gence in the game's pop­u­lar­i­ty among young peo­ple in the re­gion, the York­shire­man said it would not be enough. "I re­al­ly don't know how any­one can get more kids in­ter­est­ed in crick­et in the Caribbean. I say that with a very heavy heart and great sad­ness. They have pro­duced some of the most won­der­ful crick­eters, and en­ter­tain­ing spec­ta­tors as well, who just get in­to the game, the colour, the ex­cite­ment, the noise-it's fan­tas­tic. "The kids, when I've been there over the last num­ber of years...the in­ter­est is not there. The de­sire, the am­bi­tion seems to have gone back­wards. And so far has it gone back­wards that it looks gloomy for the fu­ture of crick­et. Mon­ey seems to be scarce for the top play­ers. So how do you find enough mon­ey to put a bet­ter in­fra­struc­ture in place for schools, com­pe­ti­tions at school lev­el, com­pe­ti­tions at youth lev­el, for teenagers to play in com­pe­ti­tions af­ter they've left school, in clubs and every­thing? You need some mon­ey to make bet­ter in­fra­struc­ture." "The time has gone when they used to just whis­tle up a tree and in­stead of a co­conut, down came a bril­liant crick­eter. That's what it was in the West In­dies 40 years ago. Crick­et was every­thing. There were so many queu­ing up to play. Not any­more. Kids want to go off to uni­ver­si­ty, to schools in Amer­i­ca and Cana­da, to get a de­gree, get a suc­cess­ful and very good job. And through trav­el now by aero­planes, you can trav­el the world. You can go get a job in Eu­rope, in In­dia, any­where you want. "I per­son­al­ly don't see how it's go­ing to change. I hope some­body has a bet­ter vi­sion than me and can change it be­cause with­out a strong West In­dies, and with­out an ex­hil­a­rat­ing pub­lic watch­ing and en­joy­ing the game, crick­et los­es a great deal."