POTCHEF­STROOM–Bowl­ing coach Rod­dy Es­t­wick be­lieves West In­dies can build on last week's Test win over Pak­istan and use it to cre­ate a new cul­ture in the em­bat­tled Caribbean side.

West In­dies have en­dured a lean run of late in the longest for­mat but broke out of their pro­longed slump when they beat Pak­istan by five wick­ets in the third and fi­nal Test in Shar­jah.

Es­t­wick said the vic­to­ry was more than just a tri­umph as it had served as a tem­plate of how West In­dies ought to ap­proach their crick­et go­ing for­ward.

"What we've got to do is build on it. We've got to make sure that any­body com­ing in­to the side now would see a cul­ture of hard work and dis­ci­pline and once you can achieve that, [im­prove­ments will come]," Es­t­wick point­ed out.

"[When play­ers] come in, you don't sit back, you've got to work hard and if you want to stay in the unit, you've got to be pre­pared to work hard and stay dis­ci­plined. West In­dies crick­et is very im­por­tant to all of us and es­pe­cial­ly to the peo­ple of the Caribbean.

"I know it's on­ly one game we've won but we've won be­cause of hard work and prop­er plan­ning. We're try­ing to take the crick­et to an­oth­er lev­el and once we con­tin­ue to do that, we've got a greater chance of suc­cess."

The match was the on­ly suc­cess for the Windies on tour af­ter suf­fer­ing 3-0 white­wash­es in the Twen­ty20 and One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries, and al­so los­ing the first two Tests of that three-match rub­ber.

West In­dies lost the open­ing Test in Dubai by 56 runs and the sec­ond in Abu Dhabi by 133 runs but de­spite this, Es­t­wick said the side need­ed to take heart from the way they chal­lenged Pak­istan.

"It should give you con­fi­dence. You've come to the UAE against the num­ber two side in the world. Not a lot of teams have suc­cess here and we man­aged to push them in all three Test match­es," he not­ed.

"Ob­vi­ous­ly it's a young team but it should give them con­fi­dence and it should give them the be­lief that if they work hard and are pre­pared to be dis­ci­plined that you can reap the re­wards."

He con­tin­ued: "It shows that the hard work and fit­ness they are try­ing to im­ple­ment in­to West In­dies crick­et is be­gin­ning to pay off and it's a good sign that we came away with a win.

"I thought we played rea­son­ably well in the UAE. We still have a way to go but if we can keep that dis­ci­pline and work eth­ic up, I'm sure we'll be ok."

West In­dies kicked off a one-week prepa­ra­tion camp here on Sun­day as they tune up for the Tri-Na­tions Se­ries against Sri Lan­ka and hosts Zim­bab­we from No­vem­ber 14-27. (CMC)