KOLKATA–Head coach Phil Sim­mons says West In­dies will use their fi­nal of­fi­cial warm-up match of the Twen­ty20 World Cup to­day against Aus­tralia, to al­low play­ers to stream­line their roles for the group cam­paign be­gin­ning next week.

Sim­mons said not all play­ers had man­aged to ex­e­cute in the first warm-up last Thurs­day against In­dia which West In­dies lost by 45 runs, and there­fore the fix­ture against the Aus­tralian would pro­vide that op­por­tu­ni­ty.

"One, we're try­ing to fig­ure out what our best com­bi­na­tion is and two, [we] just [want] to make sure every­body knows their role and what we're get­ting in­to," Sim­mons said Sat­ur­day.

"And it's a case of guys look­ing to per­form their roles–some did it, some didn't [in the last game]–and we're look­ing to cre­ate a stronger al­liance to [the play­er's] role as in you know what your role is and you per­form that role and the team will do well. That's what we're do­ing in this game."

West In­dies were dis­ap­point­ing against In­dia, dis­missed for 140 in pur­suit of 186 at Eden Gar­dens, as their bat­ting strug­gled against the spin-based at­tack.With Aus­tralia bring­ing a dif­fer­ent type of op­po­si­tion, Sim­mons said that type of va­ri­ety would serve West In­dies well go­ing for­ward.

"It's a to­tal­ly dif­fer­ent team make-up and it's a good thing be­cause we ... can see the two sides peo­ple can come at us with," he said of Aus­tralia's threat.

"So it's for us to ad­just to a dif­fer­ent team and a dif­fer­ent way of play­ing and I think that's a good thing about the two to­tal­ly op­po­site warm-up games we have got­ten."

De­spite the loss to In­dia, Sim­mons was im­pressed with the bowl­ing of speed­ster Jerome Tay­lor whose four overs cost just 26 runs and yield­ed two wick­ets.He point­ed out that if the Ja­maican's form con­tin­ued, it would solve one as­pect of the Caribbean side's prob­lems, es­pe­cial­ly at the start of the in­nings.

"It's good to see Jerome start­ing well be­cause I think those first six overs will be the pain for us be­cause we've bowled well in the mid­dle and at the death we have (Dwayne) Bra­vo com­ing back and Jerome's been bowl­ing well at the death with An­dre Rus­sell," he point­ed out.

CMC