Since they last hosted Australia four years ago, the West Indies have won only three of the 30 Tests that they've played while trying to rebuild their team. Those three wins have been enough to produce series wins over England and, more recently, in Bangladesh, their first victory away since 2003.u00a0

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Meanwhile, Australia are on a high having had a 4-0 cleansweep over India in their last series in January. They haven't lost a Test series since the Ashes defeat in January 2011 that led to significant changes in their structure and approach to the game. It also saw a change to the playing organization with Michael Clarke taking over from Ricky Ponting as captain and South African Mickey Arthur installed as coach.

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"As a playing group we can take a lot of confidence out of beating India 4-0 in Australia but conditions are a lot different here," said Clarke ahead of the first Test which starts at Kensington Oval on Saturday.u00a0"The hardest part of playing international sport is beating teams away from home in conditions that you're not as used to."

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Despite their woeful recent Test record, there are signs that the West Indies may be closing the gap. They played well in both the recent Twenty20 and ODI series with neither team getting the upper hand as both series were tied.u00a0

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"For me as captain getting the guys to gel well and to execute the team plan, the more results we'll get," said West Indies captain Darren Sammy who believes that attitude was important in the recent performances in the ODIs and Twenty20s.

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