INNSWOOD, Ja­maica - If Sri Lan­ka’s first work­out on Caribbean soil is any in­di­ca­tion, the West In­dies se­ries may be a crack­er.

The vis­i­tors warmed up for Wednes­day’s open­ing ODI with a con­trolled, pur­pose­ful per­for­mance against a Ja­maica Se­lect XI on Sun­day, leav­ing bowl­ing coach Ryan van Niek­erk a sat­is­fied man.

Speak­ing af­ter the lim­it­ed-overs hit-out, van Niek­erk made it clear that this was far from a ca­su­al stroll in the sun.