Ignore past and build on the present - Chappell

Greg Chappell, India's coach, believes that his side's recent Test performances and their overseas record should not weigh on their minds as they attempt to win in the Caribbean for the first time since 1970-71. With India due to play five one-day internationals and four Tests against West Indies, Chappell said it was imperative that India replicate their successful streak of one-day victories in the five-day format.

"People are obviously aware of the history, but we have nothing to prove barring the fact that we can win away from home," Chappell told Reuters. "Worrying about the outcome is not going to help us win the series. You need also to be looking at developing players and the only way they can is to be playing matches under pressure.

"We have made good ground in the last 12 months, especially in one-day cricket," he added. "We need to apply the similar processes to Test cricket, bearing in mind that Test cricket is more demanding. We have got to be more aware of the flow of Test cricket, of the important moments, the important sessions in Test matches."

Under Chappell, India have set the record for the number of consecutive one-day chases (16), overhauling West Indies' 14 chases in the mid-'80s. Chappell gave the example of West Indies sides of the 1980s and 1990s as well as Australia, who successfully transferred one-day success to Test cricket. "If you look at the great West Indian teams that dominated world cricket for two decades and the current Australian team that has been on top for nearly the same length of time, one-day cricket was the catalyst for them getting better," he said.

Chappell added that the return of Brian Lara as West Indies captain was a positive move. "I have no doubt Lara coming back as captain is a positive thing," he said. "It will be a change for them, I'm sure it will invigorate them, invigorate him."