The relatively quick pitch at Sabina Park led to some fast and furious action - even before the game's dramatic Sunday conclusion - but all the signs at Queen's Park Oval indicate a scrap.
A pitch that is grassy in places and bare in others will be low and slow, probablyproducing increasingly variable bounce. That means, like as not, runs being chiselled out while bowlers try to frustrate batsmen.
Steve Harmison, the destroyer at Sabina, may struggle to put the frighteners on anyone here. But that doesn't mean he can't be successful, provided his accuracy remains good and his patience is long.
A more likely bowling match-winner for England this time, though, could be spinner Ashley Giles. There is a bare patch just made for the Warwickshire left-armer outside a lefthandedbatsman's off stump at the pavilion end of the ground - and West Indies may once again field six southpaws in their top seven.
Lara is one of those six and, fully fit or not after dislocating a finger in Jamaica, he really has to play.
The home captain blamed his failures and those of senior batsmen Gayle, Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul - for the defeat. They managed only 44 runs in eight innings.
Realistically, England cannot expect to knock over those four players so cheaply here. But they can keep them under intense pressure.
"It looks like it's going to be tough work for batsmen and bowlers," said paceman Matthew Hoggard.
"I'm hoping the West Indies will be shell-shocked after Jamaica but I'm expecting them to come back hard. It's up to us to keep them under pressure, whether we bat or bowl first."
England (probable): M Vaughan (Capt), M Trescothick, M Butcher, N Hussain, G Thorpe, A Flintoff, C Read (Wkt), A Giles, M Hoggard, S Jones, S Harmison.
West Indies (from): C Gayle, Devon Smith, R Sarwan, B Lara (Capt), S Chanderpaul, R Hinds, Dwayne Smith, R Jacobs (Wkt), T Best, P Collins, C Collymore, A Sanford, R Powell.
Umpires: D Harper (Aus), B Bowden (NZ). Match referee: M Procter (SA).
