Tobago, Bermuda will today attempt to shift gears into a much more attacking mode against a less formidable Windward Islands team.

The Windwards are one of the weakest of the Caribbean's teams and Bermuda's best chances of winning their first ever game in the competition would seem to be against them.

However, they do have the likes of West Indies fast bowler Nixon McLean, former Surrey opening bowler Cameron Cuffy and occasional Test wicket-keeper Junior Murray among their ranks.

That means that while national coach Allan Douglas will not make any predictions of victory, he is upbeat about Bermuda giving an improved performance.

"We've got to remind ourselves that we are here to play positive cricket and to be aggressive. We simply have to think about aggression in tournaments like this,'' said Douglas, shortly before the team left for an intense training session yesterday.

"We weren't pinned down against Trinidad and Tobago's bowling, we just chose not to be aggressive with them. We chose not to attempt to score quick runs; we chose to defend instead of going after the bowling.'' Douglas said a team meeting had helped iron out those shortcomings and the players were in confident mood ahead of today's contest.

"We had a wonderful team meeting on Wednesday night, we went over the entire match, we highlighted all the things that we did well and we are going to try to improve on things we did well during training this morning,'' said Douglas later yesterday.

After yesterday's training session, the team were going to watch the Windwards play Trinidad.

But Douglas promised it would not be simply a social afternoon, with plans to take notepads and to video the game for analysis later.

"We all feel pretty good despite the opening loss,'' he added. "We have a good unit, we've got good leadership, everybody is rallying around their leader and I think we can pull something off only because we've got a good mature team.'' Douglas said that nobody was blaming the conditions for Wednesday's loss.

"The facilities were outstanding, the wicket in particular was good, turning a bit for the slow bowlers and rather bouncy,'' he said.

But, he added, the batsmen strangled themselves by displaying a lack of aggression.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana -- Trinidad and Tobago, led by an accomplished half-century from opener Suruj Ragoonath, booked their place in the semi-final of the Red Stripe Bowl when they completed an easy eight-wicket victory over the Windward Islands at Enmore yesterday.

Man-of-the-match Ragoonath hit six fours in an 148-ball unbeaten 69 as Trinidad and Tobago, chasing the Windwards' modest 168 in 43.1 overs, cruised to 169 for two with 5.3 overs remaining in the Zone One encounter.

Ragoonath posted 102 for the first wicket with Andre Lawrence (39) and featured in an unbroken 56-run third-wicket stand with Darren Ganga (13 not out) as the Trinidadians romped to their second victory in successive days.

After Lawrence, who struck four fours from 83 balls, was caught by wicket-keeper Junior Murray off leg-spinner Rawl Lewis and Phil Simmons (10) was caught at slip off the same bowler, it was smooth sailing for the Trinidadians, although Murray muffed a chance to run out Ganga when the teenager was 11.

Lewis was the only successful Windwards' bowler with two for 29 off 10 overs.

Earlier, the Windwards, who won the toss and batted, recovered from a precarious 58 for six, thanks to a a disciplined half-century from all-rounder Roy Marshall.

Marshall, who hit two sixes and three fours from 93 balls in making 67, received support from 20-year-old Vernon Dumas (29) in a seventh-wicket partnership of 59 after the Trinidad pacemen exploited the early moisture in the pitch.