We want to try and get our mental game right. That is shortcoming in Barbados' cricket - the way we prepare ourselves mentally and our general attitude going into first-class games.

We have got a lot of experience in players who have been lucky enough to play test cricket and have been around our first-class setup for sometime, and a lot of youngsters who are looking to create an impression.

I'm hopeful that most of the players would have been honing their skills at home with practice sessions or playing in their domestic seasons. So it is just a matter of showing up and displaying their skills.

It is always a blow to lose a person like Dwayne Smith who can strike the ball so well and is also worth something with the ball and in the field.

He is probably right (about the) longer format, one-day cricket or like Twenty20 cricket the shorter the game the more of a bit of a lottery it can become,

He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.