Bowling is West Indies captain Brian Lara’s main concern ahead of the four-Test series starting on Thursday. "In the batting department I think we’ve performed really well. Of the eight batsmen we’ve brought here, at least six have centuries which is really good," Lara told a news conference at Lord’s on Wednesday. "Bowling is a bit worrying. I think the run rate... the opposition is scoring against us is something we have to try to correct before tomorrow’s game. But we had similar problems in the one-day series and it seems that in the international arena, when they do get to that, the fast bowlers seem to get things together," Lara said. The bowling problems may prompt Lara and his fellow selectors to rely on all-rounders, Dwayne Bravo, Omari Banks and Dwayne Smith to support two specialist pacers in Tino Best and Pedro Collins. Fidel Edwards has taken one expensive wicket in the two first-class matches on tour while Jermaine Lawson went wicketless in the final warm-up over the weekend. Both could miss out as Bravo, the 20-year-old all-rounder, is given his Test debut. Banks, the off-spinner would complete an inexperienced bowling lineup. Conditions Lara said the main challenge the West Indies face in the series are the playing conditions in which the ball moves around. "It’s a situation where you know when you conquer English conditions you feel like you have achieved something part of your career has been put to closure," he said. But he admitted that England, after their 3-0 Test series win in the West Indies earlier this year - their first on Caribbean soil since 1968, would be tough opponents. "England played really well in the Caribbean and credit must be given to them. They also beat New Zealand 3-0 which was outstanding and definitely a team moving upwards. Our job is to stall that process." England's injuries In their attempt to do so, the West Indies may have some luck on their side. Injuries have disrupted what had been a settled England team with number three batsman Mark Butcher, an ever-present for the past 42 Tests, ruled out on Wednesday with a neck injury following a car accident. England have recalled Robert Key who has so far only managed one fifty in eight Tests. Meanwhile key all-rounder Andrew Flintoff's ankle injury means he cannot bowl, leaving a big hole in England's pace attack. England captain Michael Vaughan has also been out of form recently managing just 47 runs in five innings during the one-day triangular series with New Zealand and the West Indies where England failed to reach the final. Plan B? Lara said England's dependence on in-form Durham quick Stephen Harmison could be a weakness. Harmison, 25, took 23 wickets at less than 15 apiece during England's win in the West Indies. "He's a good bowler. What is nice is that England want to seem to turn to him each and every single time. "I'm not sure if he's going to last the entire summer and if we do get hold of him I don't know if they have a plan B," added Lara, who in his last Test innings against England made a world record 400 not out in the drawn fourth Test at Antigua in April. "We definitely realise he (Harmison) has taken almost double the amount of wickets most of the other bowlers in the England team. "Our plan is to play confidently against whoever we come up against," Lara said. SOURCE: BBCCARIBBEAN.COM