Scotland's cricket head coach believes his team is ready to make a breakthrough on the world stage as they fly to India for the World Twenty20 Cup.

Grant Bradburn leads his squad of 15 to Nagpur in central India for the competition, which starts on March 8, confident that his team is capable of winning matches at a major tournament for the first time.

Bradburn, whose team must defeat Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and Hong Kong to get a crack at the full member nations in India, said he is excited about Scotland's prospects.

He said: "The task is simple. We’d love to win three games, get into the main draw and then take down some big nations.

"We are all ready to break through that barrier of beating a full member nation and then we feel confident that the floodgates could open.

"This is a young side – I believe still two or three years away from its peak.

"There is some young blood and a few older heads – I’m incredibly happy with the balance of this side.

"We are comfortable with white ball cricket, the associate nations are brought up on a diet of it.

"We have a dynamic T20 side and we’ve selected this team specifically for this format – every member of the team bring dynamic skills for this format."

Hopes were high that Scotland would return from the 50 over World Cup in Australia and New Zealand with some victories under their belt but it was not to be as they suffered a one wicket loss to Afghanistan and were beaten by England, New Zealand, Australia and Bangladesh.

Bradbury said: "The World Cup was of huge benefit to us and we were absolutely gutted not to come back with a victory or two.

"But we came back from the tournament hugely excited because we saw where we needed to be and as a coach it showed me where to instill the changes we needed to make.

"What an opportunity this is it is to tour India. I’ve only been there once – I was lucky enough to tour with New Zealand A as coach.

"To be in the company of the best players in the world – what better place to enhance the skills and experience of our team?"