West Indies v England 4th Test, Bridgetown - Preview

Bridgetown: England had a decent workout on the final day of their tour match against the Barbados Cricket Association President's XI which ended here on Monday and ended in a draw.

After the third Test at St John's we might yet get some cricket out of the whole thing. As they did against India three years ago, the West Indies fought to the very final ball to salvage a draw in one of the outstanding recent Tests and hopefully the series is now on track.

England will be feeling the pressure at 1-0 down with two to play, but the remaining Tests are at Bridgetown and Port of Spain. Neither of these grounds has produced a draw since April 2001, a run of 12 matches encouraging the tourists to believe that all three series results are still possible.

Ramnaresh Sarwan: With scores of 107, 94 and 106 in three innings, there is no doubting who is the form batsman of the series - though even Sarwan himself would admit that with those totals he is selling himself short.

Devon Smith has made six, 38 and 21 in the series so far and though he showed better patience at St John's - a constant gripe against the left-handed - he is under severe pressure from Lendl Simmons, compiler of 282 for West Indies A in a tour match that now seems some months ago.

Tim Ambrose was always expecting to play at some stage in this series, after it was agreed that Prior would fly home to attend the birth of his first child, but the early arrival of Prior's first-born has brought Ambrose's recall forward by a game.

Match facts
Thursday February 26 - Monday March 2
Start time 10.00am (14.00 GMT)

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