MUMBAI, India – West Indies will be banking on a total team effort when their launch their ICC World T20 tournament campaign on Wednesday night.

The 2012 champions will face England in the much-anticipated contest and a large crowd is expected at the Wankhede Stadium.

First ball is 7:30pm (10am Eastern Caribbean Time/9am Jamaica Time).

Captain Darren Sammy said the team was well prepared following their four wins on the recent tour of Dubai and come-from-behind win victory over Australia in their last warm-up match.

“We’re fired up. We’re ready for this. We’re ready to win it again for the people of the West Indies the same way we did it back in 2012 in Sri Lanka. We have 15 potential match winners in our dressing room.” he noted.

“We have one of the most destructive T20 batsmen at the top with Chris [Gayle]. Obviously Chris is a massive figure but you look at the dressing room and we’ve also got [Dwayne] Bravo, Russell, Sammy, Jason [Holder] and Carlos Brathwaite … that’s a lot of power.”