Jermaine Lannaman, STAR Writer

When West Indies head coach Phil Simmons inspected the Sabina Park pitch on which the second Test against Australia will be played starting tomorrow, he was seen in a lengthy dialogue with the venue's ground curators.

This, it seemed, stemmed from the huge amount of grass that is on top of the wicket, which was covered prior to the team's arrival at approximately 1 p.m.

The grass, which had several shades of green, if it were to be used as is, would be best for fast bowling.

However, with the West Indies struggling to find a penetrative fast bowling combination the pitch would seem likely to favour the Australians, who have more in-form players in that area.

"I will wait until the day before (the match) and judge what the wicket will be like," said Simmons.

"They (curators) will do more work on it before the end of today and tomorrow, so tomorrow when we finish practice we will take another look.

"I will then decide what we will take from it, and what combinations we will have to play," he added.

The West Indies played the first Test with fast bowlers Jerome Taylor, Shannon Gabriel and all-rounder, Jason Holder. The Australians used Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazelwood.

However, perhaps more importantly for the West Indies, returning leg-spinner Davendra Bishoo claimed a career-best six for 80 in the first innings to signal his seeming readiness yet again for international cricket.

The West Indies will enter the contest with the same 14-man squad as the first Test with Jamaican left-arm fast bowler, Sheldon Cottrell, who has been training with squad since last month's England Test series, on standby.