West Indies can play much better: Hooper

West Indies are determined to produce a vastly improved batting display to tie the Test series with New Zealand starting at Grenada's Queen's Park stadium on Friday, skipper Carl Hooper said on Thursday.

The home team are trailing 1-0 in the two-match series after New Zealand clinched their first ever Test win in the West Indies by a crushing 204-run margin in Barbados on Monday.

Captain Stephen Fleming's gritty first innings score of 130 rescued his team from a rocky 89 for three. Then a disastrous West Indies 107 all-out gave the visitors control beyond their wildest dreams.

"It was probably our worst batting performance since I came back as captain. But I strongly feel we can come back and play much better than that," said Hooper.

The West Indies batsmen had walked on to the Kensington Oval pitch at Barbados fresh from an exciting 3-1 win over the tourists in the one-day series, but flopped.

"Its difficult to see what to put it down to, but it could have been a bit of complacency. We played well in the one-day series...but maybe we just did not stop celebrating," Hooper said.

The West Indies are likely to use pace bowler Cameron Cuffy to replace the injured Mervyn Dillon.

However, Hooper said there was also likely to be a role for the spinners, pointing to a possible call-up for leg-spinner Mahendra Nagamootoo or off-spinner Ryan Hinds.

Fleming was adamant his team would be going for a 2-0 series victory.

"This is a chance to win a second Test in the West Indies. If they don't play well we can beat them again and we have some ground to make up here," he said.

Shane Bond and Ian Butler have overcome slight knee and elbow problem and opener Lou Vincent is also expected to be fit.

Grenada's new $41.6 million Queens Park stadium has hosted six one-day internationals and on Friday becomes the West Indies' seventh Test venue.

Mail Cricket Editor