KOCHI, India:

West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo said his side has put the Test series defeat behind and have regained confidence ahead of the first one-day international against India today at the Nehru Stadium.

Bravo said he had watched India's previous ODI series against Australia, where totals of 300-plus were scored regularly, but believes that West Indies have bowlers more suited to the conditions and that off-spinner Sunil Narine, the No.1 ranked bowler in ODIs, could be the trump card.

"Their previous series was a run-feast. . .but these are different conditions, different venues, and we have a different bowling attack," he said.

"Our bowlers are similar to the Indian bowlers. We have Ravi Rampaul, Sunil Narine, Jason Holder ... I think we expect this will be a high-scoring series and the team that bowls better will win the series, so it's up to us as bowlers to try and get things right."

He added: "We have some good fast bowlers in our line-up, but in India, the grounds are small, the outfields are fast, the pitches are batsman-friendly, so the team that bowls better will win.

"This will require more skills, not too much pace, as we saw with the Australians, most of their bowlers delivered at 140 kph and they were not successful. My advice to my team will be to be skillful and smart."