Bermuda go into battle tomorrow against the mighty Kenyans with national pride as their most lethal weapon.

Gus Logie?s men spent their second day in Africa with a tough net session, allowing the players to settle firmly into the high altitude conditions that have caused shortness of breath for some of the team.

And captain Clay Smith emerged from the morning workout full of energy, excitement and promises for tomorrow?s ICC Intercontinental Cup semi-final clash with Steve Tikolo?s men.

?This is about national pride for us,? said Smith, who, like wicketkeeper Dean Minors, played against the Kenyans in the decisive ICC Trophy semi-final in March, 1994.

?And you can?t underestimate how important that is for us. We qualified for the World Cup but there are people who still say we are not good enough to be there.

?We know we are and we want to prove that. Nobody thought we would even get to the semi-finals of this tournament and now we have, we need to show that we deserve to be here.

?We haven?t come here just to make up the numbers, we have come here for one reason and one reason only ? and that is to win.

?We have come here to beat Kenya and then beat Ireland in the final. Losing is not an option.

?You can sense that as the match gets nearer, the attitude of the players is changing, they are getting into their focused mindset. This is a serious job and we are ready to do it.?

Smith?s gung-ho attitude is typical of a team that are happy to punch above their weight and compete despite the criticism of detractors at home and abroad.

But despite his positive attitude, Smith is not being naively complacent, with the veteran skipper all too aware of the magnitude of the task ahead.

?Kenya would be a very big scalp for us,? said Smith, echoing the sentiments of coach Logie and many of his team-mates.

?They have had one-day international status for three or four years and have been playing against the Test-playing nations.

?They are a very good side and a victory would be massive for us. People have said Kenya aren?t as good as they used to be but, as they proved against Zimbabwe last week, they are back to their best.

?But what Kenya have in experience, we have in unity. People talk about the best teams Bermuda has ever produced and this one is certainly the best in terms of unity.

?They say that ?in unity is strength? and that certainly applies for us. We have good players who have fantastic belief in themselves and in each other and that counts for a lot when you are on the field and you are up against it.?

Bermuda will take to the United Sports Ground field tomorrow for the three-day clash with the Kenyans, earned with a victory in the Americas section of the competition against Canada and Cayman last month.

Although the team practised in the nets at Wanderers yesterday, the venue for the other semi-final and the final, they went over to United, just a few minutes drive through the arid area around Windhoek, to check out the facilities.

?It is not a bad ground,? said Smith, now fully recovered from the knee injury that plagued him in Ireland and was the talk of the Bermuda summer.

?The wickets here are pretty hard but this one looked to be a little more grassy, although it was already beginning to crack up.

?This is going to be a good wicket to bat on but might break up later so winning the toss will be important.

?We will be looking to do our usual thing and bat first and try and set a total of around 250 or more.

?We have a lot of faith in the bowlers to do a job from there.?

He added that the first innings would ?make or break the match? and that in the second innings decisions would be made according to the complicated bonus points concept that is used to settle drawn or rain-affected Intercontinental Cup matches.

?It is all going to be about the first innings. Beyond that we would have to look at the points and decide whether to go for the outright win or play for the winning draw.

?There are plenty of things to take into account.?

Bermuda, who will pick the squad after training today and then announce it to players at the evening team meeting, are expected to go with both spinners ? Hasan Durham and Dwayne (Sluggo) Leverock ? while left-arm paceman Kevin Tucker is almost certain to miss out.

Although it is not yet clear who would be the 12th man, Smith is confident that whoever comes to the party will be capable of doing the job.

?We have potential match-winners in the side and if the match-winners are on form and do something special, then we can do this,? he added with the stern look of a captain ready to lead his side into a major battle in which they know the odds are stacked against them.

?We can do this.?