By Caroline Atkins England women's cricketer

We are good to go. The bags are packed, the visas are in our passports and all the hard work is in the bank.

It's time to fly to India for a quadrangular series to take on the world's best in women's cricket.

We'll play India, New Zealand and Australia twice each to decide who goes through to the final and who competes in the third place play-off.

Our first game is on 21 February and the finals day is 5 March.

This gives us a week in India before the first match to make snow a distant memory and to make a humid 30 degrees centigrade feel normal. I can't wait!

We've got everything we need from SIS (Science in Sport) electrolyte drinks to tried and tested recovery strategies.

The EIS (English Institute of Sport) have been getting us all fit in our respective regions, our cricket coaches have helped us hit form and we've all been thinking about our cricket for months. The preparation is complete. It's time for the games to begin.

The best advice is to travel with an open mind and soak up the buzz that surrounds cricket in India

Our squad has had two changes; Lydia Greenway comes back after helping Kent win the Liverpool Victoria County Championships for the first time.

And Ebony Rainford-Brent has earned her first call-up to make it three members of the squad who are embarking on their first overseas England tour.

The rest of us have all been to India before so we've passed on some experiences for the benefit of Ebony, Holly Colvin and Sarah Taylor.

I think the best advice is to travel with an open mind and soak up the buzz that surrounds cricket in India.

It's such a thrilling place to play cricket and the fact that this tournament involves the best four teams in the world means the atmosphere will be awesome.

It has been eagerly anticipated for long enough and so finally it is time to take-off.