Intro:

Former West India batsman Brian Lara says the current players have to take some responsibility for the contractual dispute which led to the end of their tour of India.

Script:

Brian Lara having fun teaching children how to play cricket in South Africa. Thoughts on the current West Indies team are not far from his mind though, they are due to play here in December but that is now up in the air after they pulled out of a tour in India...

SOUNDBITE: (English) Brian Lara, former West Indies cricketer:

(on the West Indies pulling out of a tour of India)

"First of all it's very unfortunate. As a former cricketer, it's not something that you want to see, it's not something that, you know, you want to have West Indians involved with. I mean, it's a big effect not just on the cricketers, (but) the administrators and also all the stakeholders. We have sponsors in the Caribbean, we have the people, the public, who really love the game, so it's something that you don't want to see at all with West Indies cricket, associated with it."

"The players will always bear responsibility. Any fracas, any situation where there is going to be, you know, a public dispute, you have to accept some responsibility."

"We've got a tour here starting in the middle of December and I'm hoping that the West Indies can come out to South Africa. I mean, Cape Town is a wonderful place for me to spend the New Year's and I have to get out to South Africa as well."

But despite Lara's optimism there are also concerns about the World Cup and even their future in test cricket.