The Northern Knights finished a three-day camp at Mount Maunganui's Bay Oval yesterday confident they can compete with the best at the lucrative 2014 Champions League Twenty20 tournament in India.
But first the Knights have to finish in the top two of four qualifying teams.
The Knights depart Monday for Bengaluru, where they will train and acclimatise for a week before their opening qualifier against Sri Lanka's Southern Express in Raipur on September 13.
Knights captain Daniel Flynn, who also captained Tauranga Boys' College and Mount Maunganui, says they are pleased with their preparation.
"Obviously you don't go to these tournaments unless you are going there to win, but we realise we have to qualify first and foremost against quality sub-continent teams," said Flynn. "It is going to be conditions familiar to them so it is going to be a good challenge. But we have worked hard over the last month or so at camps here, and have a good build-up over there firstly in Bangalore, so fingers crossed we can get things right on the night."