Bermuda vice-captain Stephen Outerbridge insists that the side have the ability to not just perform well, but beat Namibia in the process.

The squad will spend a week at the High Performance Centre in Pretoria which in Outerbridge's words is shaping up to be a 'daunting task', and from there head to Namibia for the four-day Intercontinental Shield clash, followed by several one-day encounters.

A young, relatively inexperienced Bermuda team have been given little chance of beating Namibia in a game that both sides must win to maintain any hopes of reaching November's final in Dubai.

However, Outerbridge is confident that this team can take heart from their international predecessors who beat the likes of Scotland, Kenya, and Canada when no-one expected them to do so.

"I think when you play sports it's basically a David against Goliath (contest)," said Outerbridge.

"We can beat teams when we do put our heads together, we beat Scotland and Kenya, and nobody thought we would beat Scotland, and there is the example of playing and winning in Canada, people didn't give us a chance then either.

"I think we always look for our big name players to always get us out of holes, and sometimes that gets us into bigger holes.

"It's a big thing with attitude, and if these guys show me attitude I'm sure we can cause an upset in South Africa and as well as Namibia."

For Outerbridge that attitude, the desire to win, will come from within a squad made up of players that have been fighting for places since winter training began in earnest in January.

"They (the players) all deserve to be here," he said, "and, to tell you the truth, the four stand-bys were all unlucky not to get in.

"But what that does is create competition, and I think in previous sides that competition was never really pushed to some degree, players had contracts and at the end of the day they were almost guaranteed a spot on the team which is never good.

"You've got to have competition in your side if you're going to get the best from your players.

"Now with this competition you'll really see what certain players are really made of, and hopefully it will bring out the best in everyone."

First though they must survive the week's training in Pretoria, with days that begin at 7.30 a.m., and end somewhere around 5 p.m., and will be the first chance for the players to impress new coach David Moore, who arrives here on Saturday.

"This week in Pretoria is really important for the season, and the (training) schedule is a daunting task, but we're looking forward to it," said Outerbridge.

"We getting away from our families, so we won't have that distraction and we can really focus on cricket, so Pretoria is a perfect place for us to fine tune our skills before we get to Namibia.

"We'll basically be training from 7.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. every day to some degree, with plenty of breaks in between, but it's just constant.

"There's a lot of field work, especially as we have been (training) indoors, there's gym work, pool in the morning, breakfast, gym, break, nets, break, and then extras till about 4pm or 5pm.

"It's definitely a good way to start, and the coach will be around, so there will be time allocated for him to meet players one-on-one, so it should be a really good time for us.

"It should give us a good base to go to Namibia and do well."