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BRIDGETOWN – Fresh off a his­toric Test se­ries win over Eng­land, in­ter­im West In­dies head coach Richard Py­bus wants the home side to ex­e­cute their plans in the up­com­ing five-match One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries.

The Windies re­cent­ly de­feat­ed Eng­land 2-1 to cap­ture the Wis­den Tro­phy for the first time in over a decade.

The two sides will meet at Kens­ing­ton Oval on Wednes­day for the first match of the ODI se­ries.

Py­bus said morale was high among the team and the play­ers were ea­ger­ly look­ing for­ward to the chal­lenge.

“Morale is great. We’re com­ing off the back of a Test se­ries win and we’ve still got a cou­ple play­ers trav­el­ling back in­to the squad and we’re look­ing for­ward to them ar­riv­ing, but the guys are very keen to take on Eng­land.

“I was de­light­ed with the out­come of Test se­ries. I would have loved it to be 3-0, but the loss of Ja­son [Hold­er] and then Keemo [Paul] with a quad pull, that set us back in the Test match, but I thought the guys stood up very, very well,” Py­bus said.

“We have clear plans, but great plan­ning doesn’t mean you’re go­ing to ex­e­cute, so all cred­it to Ja­son and the play­ers, they were ab­solute­ly su­perb. They showed tremen­dous com­mit­ment and dis­ci­pline and they spoke about what they want­ed to de­liv­er and they re­al­ly did. Tak­ing that in­to the se­ries now we will be get­ting this ODI squad to­geth­er do­ing the same plan­ning.”

The West In­dies had to make three changes due to in­juries to key play­ers and will al­so have to do with­out the ser­vices of Shan­non Gabriel for the first four ODIs due to his sus­pen­sion.

How­ev­er, Py­bus said he ex­pect­ed the new faces to step up to the plate if called up­on.

“We’re pret­ty good. Both squads have had a lot of crick­et so our lads have a few aches and pains that we are work­ing through but I think we’re pret­ty good,” the head coach said.

“Car­los is back in the squad so it’s great to have him com­ing in. Ob­vi­ous­ly, he’s a won­der­ful crick­eter and com­ing back in­to the squad in Bar­ba­dos is al­ways great be­cause it’s his favourite ground. Chris Gayle is back in­to the squad as well, so he brings his for­mi­da­ble ex­per­tise and ex­pe­ri­ence…Ash­ley and De­ven­dra as well, so we’ve got a few chaps com­ing in so we’re re­al­ly look­ing for­ward to get­ting the squad to­geth­er.”

Py­bus said the se­ries would serve as the last warmup for the home side ahead of the World Cup, which will be held in Eng­land and Wales from May 30 May to Ju­ly 14.

“What an op­por­tu­ni­ty for us to play. We are on the wrong end of the ta­ble, so play­ing a world ranked side which has been sight­ed as favourites for the World Cup, it’s not on­ly a good chal­lenge for us it’s a good lit­mus test for us to test where we’re at…” Py­bus said.

“What an op­por­tu­ni­ty for us to play. We are on the wrong end of the ta­ble, so play­ing a world ranked side which has been sight­ed as favorites for the World Cup, it’s not on­ly a good chal­lenge for us it’s a good lit­mus test for us to test where we’re at…” Py­bus said.