England's players are not the only ones who need to deliver a display in Barbados, says Michael Holding.
Windies must build on Antigua endeavour, says Mikey
The resilience shown by the West Indies in Antigua means Chris Gayle's side arrives in Barbados in a very healthy position.
England, 1-0 down in the series, are the side under pressure and make no mistake, the weight of expectancy on them is great and rising.
Many arrived in the Caribbean thinking this series was just a warm-up for the Ashes - that England would roll the West Indies over - but it has turned out to be totally different.
Daren Powell said the West Indies would win 3-0 before the series started even though I don't think even he believed that at the time! Well, that prediction is still mathematically possible but the hosts cannot afford to get carried away.
All the players deserved another opportunity after their efforts in Antigua so I was pleased to see the selectors name an unchanged squad for this Test even though there are a couple of guys whose places must be under threat.
Actually, there are three players who haven't performed their respective jobs up to scratch in the series and no-one could have any argument if they did not deliver this week and were replaced.
Schoolboy
Devon Smith looks good every time he goes to the crease but doesn't get runs while Ryan Hinds, from what I've seen of him, simply isn't improving within the West Indies team.
Smith is as good as he was when he was a schoolboy or when he played U19s cricket and got tons of runs, but little better - that is his problem.
I don't think he appreciates how much work you have to put in to score runs at the highest level, which means he always gets found out in that company. The shot he played to get out in the first innings at the ARC was a No 9 slog.
What would I like to see from Hinds? Runs! Lendl Simmons smashed 282 against England in the warm-up game in St Kitts - if Hinds is going to keep someone like that out of the team he has got to start delivering as a specialist batsman should otherwise he will surely be saying goodbye at the end of this Test.
And then there's Powell. It was great to see him show some grit and determination with the bat in Antigua - because it is an area of his game he appeared to have given up on. But his job is to bowl and four wickets at 48.75 apiece from two Tests isn't a good enough return.
I think he has a tendency to get emotional, to get a bit carried away with his bowling; he tends not to stick to a plan when he would be better off concentrating on what his job is and sticking to it without experimenting too much.
Determination
In his defence, it was difficult for any bowler to impress in Antigua given the batsman-friendly nature of the pitch. It was a case of putting in the hard work and all of the West Indies attack - and England's, for that matter - stuck manfully to the task.
Graeme Swann did pick up 5-57 in the first innings but he was helped by a lot of bad batting; the West Indies did not bat as well as they could have or should have first time round.
It was a different story in the second innings, though, and it was good to see the side battle hard to secure a draw; I was heartened by that because in recent times - over the last five or six years or perhaps even a bit longer - we haven't seen that from a West Indies team.
Even the lower-order batsmen went out and decided they would not give their wickets away cheaply but would strive to bat out the match.
It is something that people have been saying to the players for years 'show some grit, show some determination, don't give up when things are getting tough, stand up and fight to the end'. They did that this time around, so possibly the message is getting through!
I expected nothing less than defiant innings from Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul on a pitch as helpful as that one. When you are a top batsman, as Sarwan is, you are expected to get hundreds on those types of surfaces.
If things aren't going to go your way in those types of situations, when are they?
But I must admit that I feared the worst when Stuart Broad removed them both and then I gave up with about 15 overs to go, to be honest; I certainly didn't expect the last pair to bat out 10 overs but they did and now England have it all to do.
