It is always a blow to lose a person like Dwayne Smith who can strike the ball so well and is also worth something with the ball and in the field.

We want to try and get our mental game right. That is shortcoming in Barbados' cricket - the way we prepare ourselves mentally and our general attitude going into first-class games.

We have got a lot of experience in players who have been lucky enough to play test cricket and have been around our first-class setup for sometime, and a lot of youngsters who are looking to create an impression.

I'm hopeful that most of the players would have been honing their skills at home with practice sessions or playing in their domestic seasons. So it is just a matter of showing up and displaying their skills.

The Chinese adoption system is one of the most well-run. For the most part, I don't think there are great concerns about corruption. So parents do feel secure that the children really are abandoned and need loving homes.

This case is tragic and things need to change, but the majority of adopted children are doing well and thriving. We want to keep America open as an option for the 700,000 orphaned children living in Russia right now.