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Windies no pushovers

First Test against England from today

AFP, Kingston
West Indies have promised to make life tough for England when the sides start a four-Test series on Wednesday at Sabina Park.
England will start the series as the big favourites, having not lost a Test series to the Caribbean side in the last 15 years.
That remarkable statistic takes on fuller significance by the fact England have won the last five series convincingly, racking up an amazing 16 wins out of the 24 Tests the two sides have played during the period.
Such has been England's manhandling of West Indies that an innings and 93-run victory nine years ago at Birmingham was the last time the home team won a Test against the visitors either at home or away.
This year, West Indies host Andrew Strauss's visitors on the back of an encouraging year which ended with a drawn Test series in New Zealand.
And that result has led head coach John Dyson to believe the time is ripe for a West Indies change of fortunes, beginning with a "competitive" series against England.
Nevertheless, the form book backs England tocomeoutontop.
England have fond memories of the corresponding Test five years ago, when a superb spell of fast bowling from Steve Harmison saw West Indies crumble for their lowest total ever in a Test of 47 and provided the springboard for a memorable 10-wicket victory.
The result gave England a jump-start and they duly broke their dry spell in the Caribbean which had lasted for 36 years.
They are hoping that they can achieve a similar, if not identical result to give them an early boost of confidence.
Captain Strauss has some concern about his main strike bowler Harmison. He has fond memories of his Test-best seven wickets for 12 runs, and would relish a chance of proving himself on a pitch that is likely to give him and all the faster bowlers generous assistance.
"We all know that the more Harmy bowls, the more rhythm he gets into and the quicker he gets it through as well," Strauss said.
Dyson meanwhile expects the conditions in the Caribbean to favour his side.
"We are playing at home, in our own territory," he said. "We know the conditions very well, and we're happy to play again in the sunshine, and we are far.happier with the weather here.
Recent history indicates that Sabina Park will produce a result. The last 10Tests have all ended in victory, but West Indies will be distraught to learn that they have been on the wrong side of four of the last five.
SQUADS
WEST INDIES (from): Chris Gayle (captain), Lionel Baker, Sulieman Benn, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Fidel Edwards. Amit Jaggernauth, Xavier Marshall, Brendan Nash, Daren Powell, Denesh Ramdin, Dale Richards, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Devon Smith, JeromeTaylor.
ENGLAND (from): Andrew Strauss (captain), Alastair Cook (vice-captain), Tim Ambrose, lames Anderson. Ian Bell. Stuart Broad, Paul Collingwood, Andrew Flintoff, Steve Harmison, Monty Panesar, Kevin Pietersen. Matt Prior, Adil Rashid, Owais Shah,
Ryan Sidebottom. Graeme Swann.
Umpires: Rudi Koertzen and Asoka De Silva.