JOHANNESBURG, South Africa

West Indies play Kenya on Saturday September 8th and New Zealand on Sunday September 9th. Both games will be played at Willowmoore Park in Benoni.

The game against Kenya begins at 10am while the game against New Zealand commences at 2pm local time. South Africa is six hours ahead of Eastern Caribbean Time and seven hours ahead of Jamaican time.

"It has turned into a serious bruise and the physiotherapist (Jacqui King Mowatt) is going to keep a close eye on that and hopefully he will be right for the game against New Zealand (on September 9th), there is no major damage, it's just a matter of giving him time to rest and recover," Moore assured.

"Bravo has been ill with a flu-like virus since arriving and he has been treated by the doctor here, we haven't been able to include him in our preparations so far," Moore said.

"He is getting better every day and we are hoping that he might be available for the second warm up game against New Zealand and definitely hopeful that he will play the opening game against South Africa," Moore explained.

Following are excerpts from responses by Moore on various issues raised with him on the eve of the first warm up game.

On how the team's preparations have gone thus far:
So far so good. We would have liked to get here a little earlier but that wasn't to be. The preparations have been very good. The players have been enthusiastic, the facilities have been excellent and we've been able to achieve what we wanted to achieve.

On Kenya:
It's a bit difficult because we don't get to see much of them. We will be concentrating on doing the things we can control and setting those processes right and set ourselves targets and look for benchmarks rather than specifically looking at the opposition. It's a bit difficult in a Twenty20 game to make close analysis because any day anyone can come off and make a massive difference. We'll be looking to get our players in form and get them in a match scenario and playing in the positions that they will be batting and bowling and work hard on that.
 
On New Zealand and some of the new batting order changes they will be making:
We know that they can be quite a dangerous side. With (Jacob) Oram at number three they are obviously trying to get a couple of their bigger strikers like him and (brendon) McCullum a little bit up the order so that they can face more balls than they would in a traditional fifty over game. They will be people we will have to watch out for and pay particular attention to where they bat and how they play. Most of the teams will try and get their better batters up the order, the ones who can score bigger runs and then have 'safetys' underneath who work the ball around.

On South Africa:
They are a bit similar to us, they have strong, long hitters of the ball. Their bowling has been observed in the past of being a bit one dimensional but that's not something we are going to take for granted. We've got power hitters and we've got people like(Shivnarine) Chanderpaul who is versatile and can adapt to any situation, as can (Ramnaresh) Sarwan.

On the West Indies bowling attack:
We have a reasonable bowling attack. Our bowlers can do a couple of things. Ravi Rampaul can score runs down the bottom and you have the all rounders in Gayle, (Marlon) Samuels, (Dwayne) Bravo, (Darren) Sammy and (Dwayne) Smith. In a game like Twenty20 you need to have people who are good at all three parts of the game and if they are not then at least two parts of the game.

On Pedro Collins and Narsingh Deonarine returning to the squad:
They've come back and shown that they are enthusiastic to be back but they might have to bide their time a little bit to get their chance. I'm impressed with both their attitudes towards training. They've both been performing well in the nets. Both of them are very good players it's a matter of them taking their opportunities now that they are back at the highest level.

Full squad with shirt numbers: Ramnaresh Sarwan – captain (53), Chris Gayle – vice captain (45), Dwayne Bravo (47), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (6), Pedro Collins (17), Narsingh Deonarine (66), Fidel Edwards (20), Runako Morton (37), Daren Powell (39), Denesh Ramdin – wicketkeeper (80), Ravi Rampaul (14), Darren Sammy (88), Marlon Samuels (52), Devon Smith (28), Dwayne Smith (50)

Team Operations Unit: Mike Findlay (manager), David Moore (head coach), David Williams (assistant coach) Jacqui King Mowatt (physiotherapist), Richard Smith (strength and conditioning coach), Imran Khan (media manager)