Dec. 1, 2009 -- (www.wiplayers.com) Chris Gayle: Times are tough but I'm determined to be the strong captain the team needs right now. Make no bones about it – our loss in Brisbane was not only disappointing but it was also downright embarrassing. When you have a bad loss like this, it's to be expected that a lot of people are going to speculate over my captaincy. Some say I'm not the right person for the job.

I've got a message for those people – I'm not going anywhere.I have been chosen as captain and it's a job I will continue to do to the best of my ability.

My heart is in it and I feel really strongly that I am the right man to lead the West Indies through this challenging period. A lot has been happening over the past eight months but I am not into negativity. Negative energy is the last thing we need right now because we are just starting to try to regroup as a team. With my captaincy coming under fire, the really heartening thing for me is to see how I have respect from each and every one of the players in our squad. It makes my job easier to know that each individual supports me and it helps me get the best out of the players.It is tremendous and it gives me the extra drive to be the person who leads from the front and copes with all the things that happen when the side doesn't play well.Enough said about me and the captaincy.

We have to look forward to the Adelaide Test this week but we also have to look ourselves in the mirror and be honest with ourselves. To lose 15 wickets in a day on a beautiful batting track is simply not good enough and there are no excuses for that.

We all know where we went wrong and after thinking about it for a while and coming up with some answers we have to try to get it out of our system as quickly as possible. We can't afford to be too hard on ourselves, the Test series is still up for grabs and we have to be strong and positive if we are a chance of beating Australia.

An important thing for us will be to use Adrian Barath's wonderful century as a motivating force.

That is a huge positive for the team – a 19-year-old getting a Test century against Australia on his debut. If a teenager in his first Test can do that sort of thing, it should drive the rest of our batsmen to produce some big scores.

In my opinion, it is a huge shame that the video referral system is being used for the remainder of the Test series because I'm just not a fan of it. The new technology they have put in place still makes mistakes. I also don't agree with the decision-making process. If there is a line-ball decision on the video review, they send it back to the standing umpire to make a decision.

But the umpire is automatically going to stick by his original decision because he doesn't want to make a goose of himself on the field. That just doesn't make sense to me. I've heard that some people have said I was selfish for video challenging my lbw decisions in Brisbane. I've now watched the replays and there is no doubt – I was certainly out both times.  But I'm a key wicket for the side so at the time I thought why not give it a try?

That's the thing, you never know what the technology will show up.

Chris Gayle's column as appeared in the Courier Mail