Lara was at Wimbledon on Saturday to watch the tennis championships

"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."

Interview: West Indies legend Brian Lara

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.

He retired from international following the World Cup in the Caribbean earlier this year and told BBC Five Live's Sportsweek he did not regret the decision.

"My teacher said 20 something years ago that I was going to miss school. I did not, and I'm not missing cricket," the 38 year-old said.

"I've had 17 years of international cricket. I've enjoyed it and that's enough."

Lara did not, however, rule out a comeback, which would be most likely in English county cricket or a new $1m Twenty league being planned in India.

"I'm still capable of playing the game, so I wouldn't say I've hung up my boots...I can still play cricket. At what level, I don't know," he added.