BRIDGETOWN–West In­dies head coach Otis Gib­son says the Caribbean crick­eters will ar­rive in Eng­land for the Cham­pi­ons Tro­phy full of con­fi­dence on the strength of their tri­umph at the ICC T20 tour­na­ment last year.Gib­sons, play­ing down sug­ges­tions that the Windies could be un­der pres­sure to per­form, says the suc­cess in Sri Lan­ka late last year, could in­stead pro­vide a fil­lip.

The Windies head coach was speak­ing at a news con­fer­ence in Bridgetown Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon as the squad pre­pared to leave the re­gion for the June 6-23 tour­na­ment in Eng­land and Wales."Win­ning ma­jor events give the con­fi­dence," Gib­son told re­porters. "There will be some pres­sure of course but the fact that we have won the last ma­jor event means that we get con­fi­dence from it al­so and there is a lot of be­lief amongst the play­er."The play­ers were Eng­land bound af­ter wrap­ping up a five-day train­ing camp in Bar­ba­dos, held with­out sev­er­al mem­bers of the squad due to their com­mit­ments to the In­di­an Pre­mier League which cli­max­es to­day.

West In­dies are drawn in Group B along­side reign­ing World cham­pi­ons In­dia, Pak­istan and South Africa.Gib­son says the full Windies squad will be to­geth­er by Tues­day in­clud­ing play­ers from the IPL such as Cap­tain Dwayne Bra­vo, Kieron Pol­lard, Chris Gayle, Ravi Ram­paul, and Sunil Nar­ine.West In­dies hold an­oth­er train­ing camp in Wales be­fore tak­ing on Aus­tralia and Sri Lan­ka in of­fi­cial warm-up fix­tures.The re­gion­al side is an­tic­i­pat­ing strong sup­port from Eng­land's West In­di­an com­mu­ni­ty in their bid to re­cap­ture the ti­tle they won in the 2004 edi­tion which was al­so played in Eng­land. (CMC)