A travel weary Bermuda arrived in Antigua last night full of optimism and excitement ahead of tomorrow?s 20-20 clash with Jamaica.

An hour delay on the flight from Philadelphia to San Juan meant having to hold the plane for the third leg of the journey for the team to get on ? not too tough a proposition when one considers the tournament organiser owns the airline.

Once out of the airport, the team had to fight through the enormous crowds assembling for Antigua?s clash with St. Lucia, comfortably the biggest draw of the $28 million tournament so far.

After 15 hours on the move, the team finally checked into their hotel, with a scheduled evening training session replaced instead by a more sedate team meeting.

Despite the obvious tiredness after a long and frustrating journey, the mood was still decidedly positive ahead of the impending battle with Chris Gayle and his troops.

?Absolutely we can win,? said squad veteran Saleem Mukuddem.

?Anything?s possible in this form of cricket. We know all about them, we have seen how people like Chris Gayle bat but they know nothing about us ? and I think that can work to our advantage.

?We have prepared well for this tournament and this match, we have played in a 20-20 event already and I think we can really do this.

?We haven?t put up with all this travelling just to roll over. We are a good team and we are confident.?

As well as the short-term importance of the match, Mukuddem also believes there are some important lessons for the World Cup to be learnt.

?We are playing at a ground with enormous replay screens, a third umpire, big, noisy crowds and the games are going to be properly televised for the first time,? he continued.

?These are all things we are going to have to get used to for the World Cup ? and hopefully here we are going to get more than one game to benefit from it.?

The positive aspects for Bermuda of a televised game are two-fold, believes Mukuddem, whose wife is taping the match for him.

?It will be really good for us to hear the opinions of these expert commentators,? he continued.

?Obviously we have done some video analysis before and we have someone of Gus? stature looking at us, but it will be really good for us to get a report card from these experts as well.

?We are going to have to get used to people analysing our game in this way and I, for one, and more interested in someone telling me that I am bowling well and to a good enough level for world-class competition than I am winning the $25,000 man of the match prize.

?When we had Courtney Walsh in Bermuda and we did some drills and he told me that I was bowling a good ball, that meant a lot to me.

?This tournament is important for us but it is a part of a far more important set of events, we are all geared up to the World Cup and everything we do is for that.?

The team will train today both on the beach, for fitness, and a cricket session at a pitch near their hotel.

They are also hoping to schedule a trip to the Stanford Cricket Ground to get another look at the first-class facilities ahead of tomorrow evening?s clash with the Jamaicans.

Logie, who has 13 players at his disposal, is not going to name the starting side until the eleventh hour.