By Paul Newman for the Daily Mail
Published: 22:34 GMT, 20 January 2019 | Updated: 00:07 GMT, 21 January 2019
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Jimmy Anderson has a simple explanation as to why England have found it so difficult to win in the Caribbean even though the great West Indies teams of the past have long gone.
'Whenever we come here you get the feeling West Indies really want to beat England,' said Anderson ahead of the first Test assignment of a tumultuous year.
'It's something that's been ingrained in them, especially in the past when England suffered all those heavy defeats. You can see it in their players' eyes when you play against them and that means we've got to be at our very best to challenge them.'
Jimmy Anderson will resume duties opening with a Dukes ball against West Indies
If England are to improve a record that has seen them win only one series here in the last 51 years, starting at the Kensington Oval on Wednesday, the leader of their attack should again be at the forefront of the action.
Rarely has the incomparable Anderson played such a minor role in an England triumph than in Sri Lanka before Christmas, taking only one wicket in the first two Tests on the unforgiving pitches of the sub-continent before being rested for the final game.
But he will very much be back in business in front of what is expected to be an almost exclusively English full-house in Barbados. And, significantly, he will have another reminder of home when he opens the bowling with a new Dukes ball in his hands.
Word here is that, even though many in the West Indies camp would prefer to face England on slow pitches with the Kookaburra ball to try to
