They scored 300 against the West Indies in Sydney last week, coming within boundary of a win in the practice match - and there will be no excuses.
Their campaign starts against New Zealand at University Oval tomorrow, and they are buoyed by a one-run loss to the co-hosts at Lincoln last October. Again, it was a practice match and New Zealand have come a long way since then.
Still Bradburn, who played the last of his seven tests in 2000-01, knows they'll have taken great heart from that experience and he's working to get his players thinking about the process of winning one-day games.
"You've got key battles when the game is broken down and we know if we win the majority of those battles we'll win the game," he said.
"It's about preparing well. We realise our challenge is huge. We've never beaten a top tier national but we'd love to be resetting those goals in a few weeks."
Bradburn said there's no talk of targeting the two potentially easiest group A games against Afghanistan and Bangladesh. They're relishing the idea of jousting with not only New Zealand but Australia and England as well.
He knows they are light on experience - Dan Vettori has played more ODIs than their entire squad - but there is substantial belief in their skills.
Bradburn talked of dynamism with the bat as a strength. There have been concerns over how they'll cope with quality spin and seam bowling. They have been working hard to improve that.
"It's not about averages or aggregates for them.
"It's about understanding their skills to dominate situations. We are starting to take quality teams a lot deeper into the match and if you're doing that you start winning more than you lose," Bradburn said.
Scotland have two games in their spiritual home Dunedin, dubbed the Edinburgh of the south, also facing Afghanistan here on February 26.
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