An under fire West Indies squad arrived in Bermuda late on Sunday night to begin preparations for the ICC Champions Trophy in the UK in September, with coach Gus Logie admitting that they are relieved to be away from the constant glare of the international cricketing media.

Despite reaching the final of the annual one day tournament in the middle of the English summer, the Caribbean team endured a comprehensive mauling in the Tests against England, losing all four matches in the first whitewash since their inaugural Test series in England 76 years ago.

Looking jaded and bleary eyed at a Press conference at the Bank of Bermuda yesterday after only a few hours sleep, Logie admitted that the spectacular run of failures over the last year have taken a severe psychological toll on the Test match team.

He pointed out, however, that the West Indies? record in limited over cricket of late has been more than respectable and expressed confidence that the team would begin to rebuild the West Indies? shattered egos at the upcoming tournament.

?Certainly the tour to England was immensely challenging and the results were obviously not what we had hoped for,? he said.

?But our trip to Bermuda is about regrouping as a unit and working hard on our games. The Champions Trophy is a completely fresh challenge and we are a much better one day side at the moment than we are a Test side so hopefully we can start to put things right when he head back to the UK.?

The bitter public outcry in the Caribbean to their side?s woeful run of results has been keenly felt by the squad, Logie admitted ? but he argued that it was unfair to compare the current crop of players to the all conquering teams of the late 1970s and 1980s.

?We are all very aware that West Indies cricket has a great tradition,? he said.

?And we are doing our best to try and raise our standards. But we can only work with what we?ve got and I think it is very difficult for the young players we have at our disposal at present to try to live up to the very high expectations of the public in the Caribbean.?

Pressed on whether he felt the West Indies had under performed in the last Test series or whether they had simply been outplayed by an increasingly impressive England side, Logie conceded that it had been ?a combination of the two?.

?England are a very good side at present,? he said.

?All their batters are in the runs and their bowling attack is very well balanced and they complement each other well. We had our moments in the series with the performance of the likes of Dwayne Bravo while Chanderpaul produced the most number of runs and had the best average of any batsman on both sides. But collectively as a team we did not perform and I think if we are going to get back to the top of the tree it is this we are going to have to fix.?

The Windies went through a light training session yesterday afternoon at the National Sports Centre and take on Caribbean domestic champions Barbados in a mouth-watering day/night encounter starting at 3 p.m. today at the NSC.

And Logie admitted that although the tour to Bermuda would be a good opportunity for the team to unwind after an arduous itinerary over the summer, they ?certainly could not afford to go through the motions?.

?We have a lot to prove when we head back to the UK and the work we will do here will be crucial,? he said.

?It is obviously nice to be in such a peaceful place away from the media and the constant scrutiny, but we are going to use this time to get ourselves together and prepare physically and mentally for the challenge ahead. There is a lot of competition within the squad and there are places up for grabs so there is no question of us taking things lightly.?