In a post-match interview after the West Indies were beaten by 25 runs, giving Australia an unprecedented 20 consecutive One-Day victories, Lara told reporters he is hopeful his players can turn things around in the twin games in Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada over the next two weekends.

"We got four matches ahead of us and I honestly think that Ricky Ponting is going to be speaking first in one of them," said Lara, a reference to the Television policy where he losing captain is asked to speak first in post-match interviews.

"It is one-day cricket and sometimes you have batsmen playing great innings and I think it is a possibility to beat the Australians," Lara said.

"They played better cricket than us in the three matches we've played so far (but) if you know one day cricket, it is not really the best team that wins, it is team that plays best on the day," Lara conceded.

"I remember West Indies losing to Kenya in 1996. There is a possibility of Australia being beaten and I see in the next four games that it can happen," added Lara.

For this to happen, Lara reckons the batsmen pull their weight and show more application.

"I think I will speak collectively. We are not batting properly. I think in the three matches we've played so far, the bowlers did a good job.

We've been short of a fast bowler today and still got Australia down to 258 which is a good effort," Lara noted.

"We just have to bat a lot better. We seem to be losing wickets in a short space, one, two, three wickets at one time and that definitely is going to handicap any team. We need to look at that situation. Our batting is really and truly what not carrying us through," Lara contended.

"We got to concentrate on what we have in front of us which is a series of seven matches. Of course, they've dominated at least two of the three matches so far and we have to look to find a way to turn things around," added Lara.

Lara zeroed in on exactly where the West Indies have fell down in their three defeats to the Aussies.

"It is pretty straight forward that in two of the three matches, we lost the match in the first 15 overs when we were batting, losing that amount of wickets.