MUM­BAI–De­nesh Ramdin says West In­dies need to sharp­en up in all as­pects of their game if they are to beat In­dia in the up­com­ing one-day se­ries, and be­lieves the ar­rival of the play­ers from the Cham­pi­ons League Twen­ty20 will en­hance their chances.

The Caribbean side face In­dia in a five-match se­ries start­ing to­mor­row in Kochi but will head in­to that game on the backs of two de­feats to In­dia A in the 50-over tour match­es.

"We have to play well in all de­part­ments. We can't bat well and don't field well. It is very im­por­tant our bat­ters come out and put the runs on the board," said Ramdin, who struck a siz­zling cen­tu­ry in the sec­ond game on Sun­day at the Wankhede Sta­di­um.

"We will be with­out Sunil Nar­ine so hope­ful­ly the guys will pull their weight more and come up with the goods. Young Jerome Tay­lor in the fast bowl­ing de­part­ment is go­ing to be very ex­cit­ing...but the In­di­an bats­men are very tal­ent­ed as well so we need to get ear­ly wick­ets and put the mid­dle and low­er or­der un­der pres­sure."

West In­dies lost their first match by nine wick­ets at Brabourne Sta­di­um last Fri­day and went down again, this time by 16 runs in Sun­day's sec­ond match.

On both oc­ca­sions, the Windies bat­ting dis­ap­point­ed. They were bun­dled out for 148 in the first game and then crashed to 65 for four in pur­suit of 283 for vic­to­ry on Sun­day, be­fore bat­tling their way to 266 for nine.

Ramdin, how­ev­er, be­lieves the ad­di­tion of cap­tain Dwayne Bra­vo, Dwayne Smith and An­dre Rus­sell will bol­ster the strength of the squad.

Bra­vo and Smith were part of the Chen­nai Su­per Kings squad that won the Cham­pi­ons League Twen­ty20 fi­nal on Sat­ur­day while Rus­sell cam­paigned for los­ing fi­nal­ists Kolkata Knight Rid­ers.

"There are a cou­ple guys miss­ing from our team who are very im­por­tant, the cap­tain Dwayne Bra­vo, Dwayne Smith at the top of the or­der–a dev­as­tat­ing bats­man–and then An­dre Rus­sell one of our bet­ter fin­ish­ers," the wick­et­keep­er said.

"Hope­ful­ly when these guys come in and fill their slots, we can have bet­ter fin­ish­ing (es­pe­cial­ly) with Kieron Pol­lard and (Dar­ren) Sam­my (there)."

De­spite West In­dies' loss on Sun­day, Ramdin en­joyed a great day, tak­ing five catch­es and scor­ing a run-a-ball 102.

He put on 101 for the fifth wick­et with Sam­my (50) and a fur­ther 62 for the sixth wick­et with Ja­son Hold­er (54).

"It was a good day in terms of my glove work and then bat­ting I got a good score. But I wasn't hap­py with me not bat­ting down to the end and fin­ish­ing of the game for the team," Ramdin point­ed out.

"Young Ja­son Hold­er bat­ted very well and I got a lit­tle part­ner­ship with Dar­ren Sam­my but we just need­ed some help in the end and we couldn't get that sup­port." (CMC)