We Were Two Batsmen Short - Chris Gayle

Obviously this was a very disappointing Test match for us. We really have to try and improve and better our performance in the next Test after giving a good account of ourselves in first Test at Lord's. It wasn't the best start for us for this test match. Before the game started we lost our most experienced player in Shivnarine Chanderpaul due to injury and then during the England first innings we lost our captain Ramnaresh Sarwan to an accident on the field. So we were two batsmen short in both innings.

However, having said that we as batters should have looked to apply ourselves more in both innings. It is something we have to take into consideration and improve and build on. We have to ensure we capitalize on starts as much as possible.

The conditions were favourable to the bowlers over the last couple of days and it was extremely and bitterly cold as well. It was very difficult to play cricket in those conditions. However we are aware of it now and we have experienced it first hand. We have to be mentally prepared for the next game as the weather is not likely to be much better.

Mentally we have to go back to the drawing board and improve. We have to do more fitness work and technical work. All the other areas where we can improve our game we have to look at and address as well.

I wish the captain a speedy recovery and hopefully he will be back strong again and be ready to rumble for West Indies once more. In the meantime we may be under a new captain for the next game and we have to support him and try to improve and pull through as a team and supporting each other which we have been doing over the past couple of weeks.

We are a week from the next Test and we have a warm up game against the MCC XI. Hopefully the batters can get a good hit and get back into the groove by getting some big scores. We have to all take it seriously and make the best use of it.

There is room for improvement in the fielding department. We have been working with a fielding coach in Julian Fountain and we need to do even more work with him. That is one area where we need to make a bit improvement. The guys have been working hard with Julian and we need to keep doing it over and over and eventually we will get better.

There were a few positives we can take from this Test match and one of those was the batting of Dwayne Bravo. He looked good with the bat in both Test matches so far. He has been working hard at his game over the past few weeks and has been getting some rewards and hopefully he can keep going and go on to get a couple hundreds as well.

On Tuesday we have a training day. We will be working indoors on our batting and outdoor on our fitness and fielding. We will be doing a lot of batting work with bowling machines in order for us to move forward and get better as a team.