West Indies confident of sealing series: Sarwan

Prolific batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan is confident West Indies can produce another consistent performance against England in the fifth and final cricket Test beginning on Friday and clinch a long-awaited series victory.

West Indies, which leads England 1-0 entering the finale, has not won a Test series since 2004, when it beat Bangladesh at home. The Caribbean side last beat a team ranked above it in the rankings a year earlier when it edged Sri Lanka 1-0 at home.

It's been 11 years since West Indies won a series against England.

"It presents a great opportunity for us to win a series against a top team," Sarwan said before training on Wednesday. "Obviously, we haven't done that for a while and everyone is excited about that and everyone is looking forward to this game.”

"We are going to go out there and give 100 percent and hopefully at the end of the Test match, we'll be victorious or be able to still win the series 1-0.”

"We're very confident. I thought we played really well in the last Test match. Obviously, we didn't play well in the third one, which was in Antigua. But I thought we came back pretty well in Barbados. So we're pretty confident.”

"It's a new Test match so we have to start all over again. It's important that we continue to do the basic things."

Sarwan has been West Indies' and the series' standout batsman, with scores of 107, 94, 106 and a career-best 291 in the drawn fourth Test in Barbados.

West Indies was on the cusp of winning back the Wisden Trophy for the first time since 2000 when England began a stretch of four series wins, in which it won 13 of 17 Tests and lost just once.

Sarwan revealed a simple reason for the turnaround in the home team's fortunes.

"I think the difference is we are a lot more consistent, whether we bat or bowl," he said. "It's important that we try and continue that."

He also explained what has led to his rich vein of form this year.

"I just try to do the basic stuff, try to play the ball straight, take away some of the rash shots, try to leave as many balls as I can, especially early in my innings and, so far, it has been working," he said.

"Nevertheless, it's the start of a new Test match. I would have to start all over again. It's important that I get my mind set and continue to do the basics."

West Indies retained the same 13-member squad from Barbados but underachieving fast bowler Daren Powell was under threat from rookie Lionel Baker, who played his only Test in New Zealand last December.

Pacer Jerome Taylor was nursing a sore left ankle but was expected to be included.

England confirmed that Matt Prior, who missed the fourth Test in Barbados to spend time with his wife and newborn son back in the United Kingdom, will come straight back into the 11 for the series decider.

The rest of the selectors' options were more taxing with doubts over the fitness of Ryan Sidebottom and the enforced absence of talismanic all-rounder Andrew Flintoff.

Denmark-born Amjad Khan had a chance of making his Test debut while England contemplates a five-man bowling attack.