“I’ve been coming on by leaps and bounds and I’m pretty happy with the way I’ve been batting. I have been a little bit more consistent and that is pleasing for me,” Sarwan said Friday on his return to the Caribbean from the 2003 World Cup in South Africa.

But the improving 22-year-old right-handed stroke-maker, who has played 29 Tests and 34 One-Day Internationals acknowledges there is still some fine-tuning to be done to his batting.

“There are still a few things to work on and hopefully I will be able to get them right,” Sarwan conceded.

Sarwan was one of the bright spots for the West Indies during the World Cup despite their first round exit after losing key group matches to New Zealand and Sri Lanka and having their game against lowly Bangladesh prematurely abandoned because of rain.

“I thought I batted pretty well throughout the tournament but it’s a bit disappointing from a team’s point of view knowing that we played so well in the first game.

“I was expecting for us to do pretty well but it’s just unfortunate that we lost, so that was a bit disappointing,” Sarwan said.

Sarwan, who amassed 209 runs in five innings of the World Cup with three not-outs, for an outstanding average of 104.50, also reflected on the painful blow to the head which he received in the match against Sri Lanka when he was struck on the helmet by fast bowler Dilhara Fernando.

“Actually, the first ball the guy bowled to me was a short-pitched ball and I pulled it. I was looking for him to pitch the next ball up a bit more and he caught me a bit off-balance going forward.

“I didn’t see it as early as I wanted to and it was very straight at me and I had really no chance to take evasive action,” Sarwan recalled.

Sarwan said when he resumed his innings after returning from the hospital where he had a couple of stitches inserted in the laceration, he was only thinking about winning the game for the West Indies.

“When I came back, I didn’t have much of a choice. We tried to win every game and I was looking to win the game but we didn’t play that well and we are disappointed,” he remarked.

With his mentor Carl Hooper in the twilight of his career and the search on for a future West Indies captain, Sarwan, a two-time former Guyana Under-19 captain said it would be a dream come true for him to lead the regional side.

However, the youthful darling of West Indian cricket fans made it clear that he doesn’t want to be thrown in at the deep end without being groomed for such a demanding role of captain.

“That’s so far away. I haven’t captained Guyana and I think that (captaining the West Indies) will be some time because I would have to get some sort of experience before I get into that,” Sarwan reasoned.

“I just don’t want to be thrown in at the deep end and then I might drown so I just have to wait but of course to captain the West Indies would be a dream come true,” Sarwan said.

Sarwan, who has distinguished himself in One-Day cricket with an impressive batting average of 55.69 and a commendable strike rate of 81.69, rates his maiden century in both forms of the game against Bangladesh as the most memorable moments to-date.

“Obviously, it would be the Test hundred and the One-Day hundred that I scored but I thought the World Cup was breathtaking, especially the opening (ceremony).

“Apart from the games that we played, it was a wonderful experience to be there and to experience such a World Cup opening,” Sarwan said.

Looking ahead to the upcoming series against Australia, which starts in Guyana on April 10 with the first Test at the Georgetown Cricket Club, Bourda. Sarwan said adhering to the basic principle of batting would be critical.