Windies Plan To Take The Fight To Australia

The West Indies head says he isencouraged by the pitch in Australia.

Bridgetown, Captain Darren Sammy says the West Indies plan to play tough cricket against Australia when they get together in a five match One-Day International series preliminary early next month.

The tour starts with a game next to a Ricky Ponting-led Prime Minister's XI on January 29 in Canberra before the West Indies group of actors head to Perth for the first two ODIs.

Speaking to journalists just before the players left the Caribbean, Sammy said his team intend to obtain the fight to the Aussies.

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"We are going downward there confident and we are ready to play the game very hard. We expect Australia to come at us and we be not going to sit back and let it happen," Sammy insisted.

"We are leaving to play the game in the true strength that it should be played in but yet still we are leaving to play it tough."

Sammy says his players are competition ready having participated in the Caribbean T20 tournament which broken on Sunday after two fiercely competitive weeks of thrilling cricket.

The Windies captain says he is confident by the pitches in Australia which are similar to the one at the Beausejour Cricket Ground in St. Lucia where final matches in the Caribbean T20 contest were played.

"The good thing for us is so as to we have been in concert matches. Most if not all the guys in the squad have be playing in the Caribbean T20 and so we be match ready," said Sammy.

"Going down to Australia to similar circumstances like we experience in St. Lucia is good for the team. We are leaving down there and carry on that one day series we had in the Caribbean anywhere the scores were levelled at two-all. We are going out there to finish business downward in Australia."