Vaughan wants fun in the sun

England fly to Grenada today desperate for a change in the weather to enable their young squad to take a break from their repetitive routine and complete their first full match of the one-day series.

Since assembling prior to the start of the seven-match series in Guyana nearly a fortnight ago, the squad have been frustrated in their efforts to gain valuable experience in the Caribbean at venues which may be used in the 2007 World Cup.

Their warm-up match with Guyana was washed out, they claimed a two-wicket victory in the 30-overs-a-side opening match at the Bourda and the back-to-back matches in Trinidad this weekend were also abandoned.

With two matches also being washed out by rain in Sri Lanka before Christmas, England's one-day squad have been denied valuable experience.

It is little wonder that captain Michael Vaughan is anxious to see the sun shine again prior to Wednesday's fourth match in a series.

"We wanted to give certain players an opportunity on this trip and we have four games left and hopefully the weather will be good for us and we can get four good games in before we go home," said Vaughan.

"We now have four to play in seven days which is a lot, but we haven't played a game for a week and a half so we will just have to practise indoors and hopefully the weather will be better in Grenada and we can get a full game in there.

"We want a proper game to test the inexperienced squad members."

Both Vaughan and coach Duncan Fletcher had hoped to return home with a better awareness of what each player is capable of producing.

"You pick a squad of 15 players and in seven games you would think that every member of that squad would get an opportunity but now it could be difficult to give everyone a game," said Vaughan.

"We are not learning about the players which is disappointing. We had two games washed out in Sri Lanka and that is valuable experience we are not gaining."