KINGSTON– Tamar Lam­bert sees to­day's Re­gion­al Four-Day Tour­na­ment against Trinidad & To­ba­go as an­oth­er step on a jour­ney to leave an in­cred­i­ble lega­cy be­hind for the game in Ja­maica.

The Ja­maica cap­tain said yes­ter­day his side was pre­pared for the chal­lenge from De­nesh Ramdin's T&T and they un­der­stood the im­por­tance of win­ning, know­ing how hard they have worked over a num­ber of years, in­clud­ing this sea­son, to de­vel­op a suc­cess­ful unit.

"I ex­pect it to be a chal­lenge," Lam­bert told WICB me­dia.

"It will be tough. Trinidad & To­ba­go are a com­pet­i­tive side and we have to pre­pare our­selves well for them.

"We are the de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons. We did not win the Re­gion­al Su­per50 ti­tle and we want to make sure that we do not end the sea­son emp­ty-hand­ed, so we want to win this tour­na­ment."

Reign­ing five-time cham­pi­ons Ja­maica en­ter the se­mi-fi­nals with a max­i­mum 72 points, af­ter win­ning every match in the pre­lim­i­nary com­pe­ti­tion, in­clud­ing a 93-run vic­to­ry over T&T in the penul­ti­mate round.

Lam­bert said he was wise enough to know not to place too much em­pha­sis on past vic­to­ries and is ea­ger for his side to keep their fo­cus and build on what they had achieved dur­ing the sea­son.

"We are go­ing to try to take it one day at a time," he said.

"Know­ing it's a se­mi-fi­nal, we want to play well. We are not a side that will get com­pla­cent that eas­i­ly.

"We have set our goals and it is to win the Re­gion­al Four-Day Tour­na­ment and this is just an­oth­er step­ping stone to the Fi­nal. We will not be dwelling too much on hav­ing won every match in the pre­lim­i­nary com­pe­ti­tion be­cause this is a se­mi-fi­nal and we will be out of the com­pe­ti­tion if we lose."

Lam­bert said fa­mil­iar­i­ty had bred the suc­cess­ful Ja­maican side, which has now won an in­cred­i­ble 15 straight match­es in the Re­gion­al Four-Day Tour­na­ment, play­ing most of the time with­out such in­ter­na­tion­al stars as Chris Gayle, Mar­lon Samuels and An­dre Rus­sell.

"The team uni­ty has been strong over the years," said Lam­bert.

"We have been do­ing well be­cause this group of play­ers have been play­ing to­geth­er since 1996. We have come through the ranks and we un­der­stand each oth­er in­side out and the game."

But Ramdin be­lieves his side can spring an up­set and turn the ta­bles on the hosts.

"We played un­beat­en in the Re­gion­al Su­per50 pre­lim­i­nar­ies and then Com­bined Cam­pus­es & Col­leges took us out in the se­mi-fi­nals, so we be­lieve we can do a sim­i­lar thing to Ja­maica," he told WICB me­dia.

"They have not lost a match for the sea­son and we are well aware they will be con­fi­dent, but we be­lieve we can pull off a re­sult and reach the fi­nal."

Squads:

J'ca - Tamar Lam­bert (capt), Carl­ton Baugh Jr, David Bernard Jr, Jer­maine Black­wood, Nkrumah Bon­ner, Odean Brown, Shel­don Cot­trell, Dan­za Hy­att, An­dre Mc­Carthy, Jamie Mer­chant, Niki­ta Miller, Bren­ton Parch­ment, An­drew Richard­son.

T&T -De­nesh Ramdin (capt), Yan­nic Car­ri­ah, Rayad Em­rit, Shan­non Gabriel, Akeal Ho­sein, Amit Jag­ger­nauth, Steven Kat­wa­roo, Im­ran Khan, Ja­son Mo­hammed, Kjorn Ot­t­ley, Mar­lon Richards, Je­re­my Solozano, Lendl Sim­mons.