National coach Logie believes his team have to make a ?quantum leap? in improvement following their worst ever display under his charge in Friday night?s Stanford humiliation against Jamaica.

The team arrived home at 2 a.m. yesterday after an excruciating 21-hour journey from the scene of their embarrassing nine-wicket defeat at the Stanford Cricket Ground in Antigua.

Weather delays of six hours in Philadelphia gave the side even more time to mull over the manner of their defeat, in which Jamaica skittled them out for 74 before racking up the reply in just 35 balls ? made worse after Marlon Samuels was dropped on nought.

?Let?s start off by saying that we were playing against a very, very good Jamaican side with a lot of Test players in it,? said Logie, who had refused an opportunity to comment immediately after the televised defeat on Friday evening in the $28 million Stanford 20-20 tournament.

?But we didn?t execute the way we should have and it is very disappointing for us to lose like that. The players are capable of a lot more and let themselves down badly.?

Logie then admitted that is was the worst performance yet from his side, with the leading batsmen Janeiro Tucker, Lionel Cann, Dean Minors and skipper Irving Romaine contributing just six runs between them.

?There has to be a quantum leap in improvement,? continued Logie, whose side will get together at 6 p.m. today for what is expected to be an honest post-mortem of the defeat.

?We got a lesson from a very good team but it showed the gap between some of the best players in the world and ourselves.

?And it reinforced what I have said all along, which is that without the time to work with the team, it is going to be hard to make the improvements we need.?

One of the few positives to come out of the game for the coach was the performance of OJ Pitcher and Delyone Borden, who built a 31-run partnership in the middle of the innings.

?I was impressed by the youngsters and the way they played,? he continued.

?They did the right sort of things, rotated the players and did the things we talked about. They were never going to provide the big hits and the fast runs but they showed promise ? it was a shame they were let down by their senior colleagues.?

Logie also appeared upset by comments made in the post-match prize presentation and by television pundits about the size of some of the team, and admitted that the players needed to take responsibility.

?We can?t lock the guys down for weeks and tell them what to do, and when and what to eat,? he continued.

?We are working with the nutritionists and the players have to take the responsibility to look after themselves and work on their fitness ? that is not something we can do for them.

?When I took over this team, I saw the size of the players and that is something we have to work with. I do not expect these players to shrink overnight and be able to run like gazelles but we have to make the most of what we have.

?If our mobility isn?t going to be superb then we have to look at ways round that, like the Indians have had to do in the past. You then have to look at technique and have to look at better awareness in the field.?

But for Logie, the most important factor and the one he is most keen to talk about, is the subject of player availability.

?It?s a simple fact that if we are going to be able to compete against these sort of players, we need more time work with the guys,? he added.

?Sacrifices need to be made by everyone if we are going to be able to move forward.

?We are going to Canada soon but with Cup Match trials and all the other games going, plus their jobs, we are not going to get a lot of guys together as a team.

?So all I can ask them to do for now is dominate the games they do play in. These are the best group of players on the Island and they need to show that in every game they play here.?