BRIDGETOWN – Bar­ba­dos Pride head coach Vas­bert Drakes said his team has “done their home­work” on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force and are ful­ly pre­pared for their cru­cial semi­fi­nal clash in the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship.

The arch-ri­vals will face off at the Coolidge Crick­et Ground in An­tigua on Sun­day, with the win­ner earn­ing a spot in the fi­nal against de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Guyana Harpy Ea­gles.

In an in­ter­view with the Na­tion dur­ing a train­ing ses­sion on Tues­day, Drakes said the team was pre­pared for the change in con­di­tions ex­pect­ed in An­tigua, hav­ing played their open­ing three match­es in Ja­maica.

“They al­ways present a strong chal­lenge, so we have done our home­work, and we are ready for any­thing they have to throw at us. We will take the lessons from Ja­maica with us to An­tigua for the next bat­tle.

“We have been do­ing ex­ten­sive re­search, and we know that the par score is be­tween 280 and 320 at Coolidge…It will be a to­tal­ly dif­fer­ent en­vi­ron­ment we will be play­ing in,” Drakes said.

“…We al­ways have that win­ning mind­set in this Bar­ba­dos team and that has not changed. Ear­li­er in the com­pe­ti­tion, we came in as un­der­dogs and that hasn’t changed. Trinidad have been play­ing some re­al­ly good crick­et, so we know what is ahead of us. We have sol­id plans and we will play to win.”

The Pride has made one change to their 13-mem­ber squad, with fast bowler Akeem Jor­dan re­plac­ing fel­low pac­er Jair McAl­lis­ter.

BAR­BA­DOS PRIDE SQUAD: Kraigg Brath­waite (cap­tain), Joshua Bish­op, Je­di­ah Blades, Leniko Bouch­er, Ros­ton Chase, Jonathan Drakes, Akeem Jor­dan, Jo­hann Layne, Kyle May­ers, Shayne Mose­ley, Shamar Springer, Jomel War­ri­can, Kevin Wick­ham.

CMC