Bermuda's national cricketers resume training this evening as they begin preparations for next months ICC Americas Championship.

The squad will start with two sessions a week, today and tomorrow, and coach Arnold Manders hopes to extend that to three by the beginning of May.

High on the agenda for the 30 players invited to train will be a focus on strength and conditioning, as well as ironing out the basic errors, like running between the wickets, that proved so costly in Namibia earlier this month.

"We've gone over what we expect of them, identify weaknesses, and we'll try and bring a strength and conditioning coach in," said Manders.

"That's what we need to work on, we need to get stronger, the core anyway. Some individuals need to work on certain things, we need individualised training, because guys need different things.

"And then working specifically on the skills, and improving them, particularly the weaknesses."

The 14 players that went to South Africa and Namibia are expected to make up the majority of the squad selected for the Americas tournament, although all the players that didn't make the trip have been invited to training, and will have a chance to make their case for inclusion in the final squad.

However there are unlikely to be wholesale changes made to the team, with Manders insisting there were plenty of positives to come out of a tour that saw Bermuda soundly beaten by Namibia on three occasions.

"I think there is a lot to look forward to," said Manders. "The team is still a work in progress, it's not going to happen overnight. A lot of people are concerned, but I don't know what they are concerned about, we're in the top 20 in the world, we're playing against tough opposition, they're no easy games.

"We could, not go to Namibia, we could take the easy road, go play Argentina and all those other teams, and just beat up on them, but what good is that. If you want to improve you've got to play tough teams and find a way of beating them."

And key to achieving that will be to find a way to solve the age-old dilemma that Bermuda face, playing more four-day games. If the Namibia tour, taught the Bermuda team anything, it is that you cannot continually succeed in one-day cricket if you can't play four-day cricket.

"I wasn't an advocate of the four-day game, but after watching the four-day game (in Namibia) and seeing what it could do for players as far as the mental toughness, and preparing for games, I will endorse it now," said Manders.

"I see, particularly with Bermudians, all our teams are weak at the mental part of the game, and four-day can make or break you, and playing it can only make you get better."

With Open cricket being scrapped this year, Manders and head coach David Moore are aiming to create a competition at the end of the season where four teams made up of the national squad and the best of the rest, will play each other over two long days.

"Definitely after watching it, and seeing what it can do for players, the four-day game is something that we need to play more of, the longer version anyway," said Manders. "There's no way around it, we need to play some type of two-day game, and we can have longer hours, and so just like Cup Match, which is two-days, but when you look at the time, is just short of a three-day game."

Bermuda squad: David Hemp, Stephen Outerbridge, Stefan Kelly, Jekon Edness, Irving Romaine, OJ Pitcher, Delyone Borden, Rodney Trott, Tamauri Tucker, Jordan DeSilva, Justin Pitcher, Dion Stovell, Jacobi Robinson, Malachi Jones, Terryn Fray, Fiqre Crockwell, Landro Minors, Chris Foggo, Kevon Fubler, Janeiro Tucker, Azeem Pitcher, Regino Smith, Kyle Hodsoll, Ryan Steede, Shannon Raynor, Jim West, Chris Douglas, Kevon Tucker, David Lovell, Ryan Shepherd.