West Indies captain Darren Sammy said his team would consider including an extra spinner in Samuel Badree in Monday's crucial match against New Zealand.
"There's a bit of possibility that Badree could play. It's horses for courses," Sammy said.
"If it is dry like it is on Monday he stands a good chance of playing."
The West Indies batsmen struggled against Sri Lanka's spinners on Saturday but Sammy said the team had enough experience to adapt to the turning wickets.
"At the start of the tournament the ball was coming through but as the tournament went on we expected the pitches in Sri Lanka to have low and slow turn type of wickets," Sammy said.
"We have enough experience in the dressing room to adapt to such conditions."
New Zealand have the slimmest chance of making it to semi-finals, having lost both their Super Eight matches.
They need to beat West Indies by a big margin and hope that Sri Lanka defeat England in the second match on Monday.
Former New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori said Sri Lanka's thumping win against West Indies has given them some hope.
"It was disappointing to lose to England, a game we should have won," Vettori said.
"We slipped up in that game and now we find ourselves fighting to stay in the competition.
"We can take a lot of positives the way Sri Lanka beat West Indies. Hope we can come up with something to pull off a win."
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