Lara calls on team to work harder

Brian Lara has said that West Indies still have plenty of work to do after they stumbled to an unconvincing five-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the opening one-day international at the Antigua Recreation Ground.

After restricting Zimbabwe to 151 for 9 in their 50 overs, West Indies slipped to 77 for 4 before recovering to reach their target of 154 for 5 off 38.3 overs.

"We wanted to win it in a much more authoritative fashion and we didn't. We got to go back and work," said Lara. "The new ball bowlers have to get more wickets early up and that's the sort of attack we have. We've got guys bowling 90 miles an hour, we want them to get wickets. There are areas we are going to talk about and work on.

"I don't think it was as comfortable as it looked and Zimbabwe must be commended for the fight that they gave. [It was] a reasonable result. We set ourselves targets throughout this game [and] we did hit some, not all," said Lara. "I thought that we needed a lot more wickets in the first 25 overs. The Zimbabweans did it, consolidated-didn't score much runs-but didn't lose any wickets. It's situations like that when you are bowling first you would like to get more wickets. Batting last, we set ourselves of getting the runs in 35 overs which we failed to do."