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Don't get too cocky, warns King

West Indies coach Bennett King (right) raps with members of his coaching staff during a break from the West indies training session at Kensington Park yesterday. - ANTHONY FOSTER

WEST INDIES COACH Bennett King expects a less lopsided contest at Sabina Park when the second Test against Pakistan starts tomorrow.

"We caught Pakistan without their strongest side and we got some early breakthroughs, which is something we haven't done in the past," King told reporters, adding that he's expecting a more even contest than the first game in Barbados last weekend.

"I just feel like we played reasonably well," he said after both teams arrived in Jamaica Tuesday for the second match in their two-game Digicel Test series.

The West Indies emphatically snapped a four-game losing streak at Kensington Oval on Sunday with a 276-run victory over the tourists inside four days.

Playing without suspended captain Inzamam-ul-Haq and another top batsman Yousuf Youhana in the first Test, Pakistan never recovered after they plunged to 144 all out in their first innings against the West Indies as pacers Fidel Edwards (5-38) and Corey Collymore (3-20), who shared eight wickets.

It was the West Indies' first Test win in almost a year.

"It's good to get a win on the board and hopefully give the boys some confidence and some momentum going into this match," King added.

Lanky pacer

Off-spinning allrounder Shoaib Malik also missed last weekend's match for the Pakistanis but is set to line-up in the second Test with Inzamam-ul-Haq, who is also returning.

West Indies captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul concurred with the view that his side is "going to have a much harder fight."

Pakistan's coach Bob Woolmer said that while Youhana ­ who hastily returned home last week because his father was ill ­ was unlikely to rejoin the team ahead of the second and final Test, he expected everyone else to be available to play including the lanky pacer Shabbir Ahmed who was reported to the ICC during the first Test for a suspected illegal bowling action.

"It (the report by match officials to the ICC) doesn't affect his selection. I will be working with him and talking to him and he is certainly in the squad and will be available for selection," said Woolmer, a former England batsman.