Seem­ing­ly re­cov­ered from their ear­ly se­ries stut­ter­ing, West In­dies will look to wrap up the se­ries against Zim­bab­we in the fourth One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al of the five-match se­ries which bowls off here to­day. The hosts start­ed the se­ries with a shock­ing two-run de­feat to the feisty tour­ing side but their em­phat­ic 141-run win in the third game on Wednes­day, point­ed to a de­ci­sive turn­ing of the tide.

While their bat­ting will re­main a con­cern, the bowl­ing has twice now kept Zim­bab­we un­der wraps and new coach Ot­tis Gib­son will hope this is the match when it all comes to­geth­er. "We're mov­ing for­ward but as I say to the play­ers all the time, that's just one small step. We've just got to keep our feet on the ground and keep plan­ning for the next game," Gib­son said. "We're build­ing to­wards some­thing far big­ger than where we are now. The guys have worked very hard since I've got here so I've got to com­mend them on the work they've done.

Ot­tis Gib­son...play­ers have worked very hard.

"They've tak­en on­board al­most every­thing I've said and gone with it. They've worked hard in the nets, they've worked hard on fit­ness. We've done some ex­tra stuff that they've all ful­ly com­mit­ted to." Gib­son said if the team con­tin­ued to ap­ply them­selves with a high lev­el of dis­ci­pline, even­tu­al­ly they would be­gin to reap div­i­dends. "If we put in the work and we work in the right way and we come to work with a pos­i­tive at­ti­tude, most days you will en­joy your work," Gib­son point­ed out. "Ob­vi­ous­ly win­ning will hap­pen as well. You will start to win more."

For Zim­bab­we, they will seek to res­cue a se­ries which start­ed with much hope af­ter back-to-back vic­to­ries, but which now is slow be­com­ing de­railed as West In­dies ex­ert their su­pe­ri­or­i­ty.

They won the one-off Twen­ty/20 In­ter­na­tion­al by 26 runs and then carved out an up­set win in the first ODI in George­town, to lay the foun­da­tion for a suc­cess­ful cam­paign. "We still be­lieve in our­selves and each oth­er - that doesn't change af­ter one game � and we know we can hit back in the fourth game on Fri­day," Zim­bab­we cap­tain Pros­per Ut­seya said. (CMC)

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WEST IN­DIES �

Chris Gayle (cap­tain), Adri­an Barath, Sulie­man Benn, David Bernard, Dar­ren Bra­vo, Dwayne Bra­vo, Shiv­nar­ine Chan­der­paul, Nars­ingh De­onar­ine, Niki­ta Miller, Kieron Pol­lard, De­nesh Ramdin, Ravi Ram­paul, Ke­mar Roach, Dar­ren Sam­my.

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ZIM­BAB­WE �

Pros­per Ut­seya (cap­tain), Hamil­ton Masakadza, El­ton Chigum­bu­ra, Charles Coven­try, Graeme Cre­mer, Kyle Jarvis, Greg Lamb, Timycen Maru­ma, Shin­gi­rai Masakadza, Stu­art Mat­sikeny­eri, Chris Mpo­fu, Ray Price, Vusi Siban­da, Taten­da Taibu, Bren­dan Tay­lor.