Ireland's own Boom Boom' Kevin O'Brien is looking forward for the sixth time to represent his country on the World Stage. Even though it's his sixth time at a World Event, the occasion hasn't lost any of its excitement or anticipation for the Irish Talisman.

O'Brien generally reserves his best for the big competitions and he is looking for the whole squad to step up and embrace the chance that they have to emulate the heroics of other Irish Squads in past World tournaments.

Barry Chambers: Kevin another World stage for you. You're pretty experienced at them, your fourth T20, sixth in total. Still the same sense of excitement and anticipation as before?

Kevin O'Brien: Yeah definitely, I think when we touched down yesterday, just off the flight from Dubai, you know you could really get the sense of the excitement building up around the tournament. And as a player, you know, it doesn't get any better.

We've got another World Cup, although it is my sixth, myself Nialler and Porty have been to all world cups that we've played in. But this is just as big as 2007, for us anyway. I think as a player, playing in a World Cup, it doesn't get any bigger.

Barry Chambers: Yeah and are you a bit worried about the team's form, a bit mixed, up and down. I mean we beat the West Indies but losing to Hong Kong and Worcestershire. Have you any concern or is it a case that it will be all right on the night?

Kevin O'Brien: I think we've just got to put a lot of hard work in over the next week or so, before our first game. But you know, yeah of course those results in Dubai weren't ideal. We just didn't bat well as a unit, and we probably haven't been batting as well as we would have liked in the last probably four or five weeks.

But you know we're all experienced players, and it just takes one day to get into nick. It's not like we're all out of nick. I think we're all batting pretty well in the nets, you know we're all hitting the ball well. It's just trying to recreate that net atmosphere out in the middle and try and just bring the good things you're doing well in practice into games.

Barry Chambers: Of course yourself, Niall and Paul all played in the Bangladesh Premier League, that must stand you in very good stead?

Kevin O'Brien:Definitely, you know I think to get a tournament like that, an extra ten games in Bangladesh conditions, you know is going to hopefully stand to us, come the end of the tournament. But you know it's just a great opportunity for all the players and the squad as a whole to really stamp out mark on World Cricket.

You know I think back in 2012 I think we were a little bit off the pace at the start, but hopefully if we can get through this first qualifying phase, we're going to go into the tournament with six or seven great games under our belts and hopefully a lot of confidence.

Barry Chambers: Is there a sense of, you know, the level of expectation has changed now from 2007, we're expected to win games, we're expected to maybe go quite far in the competition?

Kevin O'Brien: Yeah definitely, and I think you know that's something that's not easy to take, you know, especially coming from a small cricketing nation like Ireland, albeit we've done well in the past over the last seven or eight years. it is difficult to kind of shift your mind into that kind of way of thinking.

But I think it's something that we have to do, and the team we have available and the players in the squad, you know we can go all the way, and it's just believing in ourselves, and having that self confidence in our own games to go out on the day, and really produce our best performances.