Bermuda succeeded in checking a quick start by West Indies Board Select openers Philo Wallace and Robert Samuels, but with a challenging winning target of 224 facing them the national squad slumped to the lowest total of the tour against some fine bowling from Jamaicans Franklyn Rose and Nehemiah Perry at Lord's yesterday.

Bermuda did the hard part in restricting the strong West Indies batting to 223 after they had won the toss for the fifth time in six matches and decided to take first strike on a St. David's strip that looked good for batting.

And even though they did not score as many runs as earlier promised, the winning target proved too much for Bermuda as 21-year-old Rose quickly had them on the rack with four of the first five wickets to leave the Bermuda innings in ruins at 14 for five by the 11th over.

Then, after Jeff Richardson and Allan Douglas checked the slide with a 49-run stand for the sixth wicket, Rose's fellow Jamaican, off-spinner Nehemiah Perry, started his 10-over spell with a wicket from his first delivery and went on to pick up two more wickets as he and Rose went through the tail-end to complete a six-game sweep for the tourists.

Bermuda's accomplishments yesterday meant that they scored the two lowest totals (115 and 84) against the visitors during the tour.

Captain Roland Holder had no worries about batting first and when Wallace and Samuels put on 62 for the first wicket in 12 overs they looked well set for another big total. Left-hander Samuels, scorer of his team's second century the day before against Somerset, again dominated this partnership in scoring 49 of his team's first 62 runs.

Samuels succeeded in removing Terry Burgess from the Bermuda attack when he smashed Burgess for 24 (two sixes and three fours) in his sixth over. The stand ended when Noel Gibbons got the last delivery of his first over to lift sharply off a good length to Wallace and Allan Douglas took the catch behind.

Gibbons was also responsible for the wicket of Stuart Williams 12 runs and four overs later, trapped lbw for two.

Bermuda captain Albert Steede's decision to introduce Bruce Perinchief from the clubhouse end the following over also produced quick results with the leg-spinner getting Samuels (67) to sky a catch to Alan Brangman at long-off to end his innings, which lasted 70 minutes and included 12 fours and two sixes from 60 deliveries.

Captain Holder lasted 10 overs before he was run out for 21 after Wayne Richardson's throw from point beat him back to the crease at the striker's end.

The score was 107 for four in the 27th over and when Ridley Jacobs and Shivnarine Chanderpaul were removed by Richardson, now operating from the northern end, on 133 and 139, the West Indians were in some trouble at 139 for six with all of their front line batsmen gone.

A seventh-wicket stand of 46 between Courtney Browne (27) and Perry (17) kept them in sight of 200 before three wickets went down for two runs to leave them struggling at 187 for nine.

Bermuda gradually lost the challenge of preventing last pair Rose and Eugene Antoine from reaching 200 as they added 36 in a dashing stand before the overs ran out.

Rose finished unbeaten on 25 and Antoine 14 as not only did Burgess fail to dislodge the pair but also took some hammering in conceding 22 in his last over to finish with the unflattering figures none for 74 from nine overs in three spells.

Gibbons was the pick of the Bermuda bowlers with three for 21 from 10 overs of seam bowling, having gone off for treatment to his left leg, while Richardson claimed two for 42 and Perinchief one for 28 from 10 unchanged overs. He, too, left the field because of recurring hamstring problems.

Rose was still building up to top pace when he removed the man the West Indies feared most, Ricky Hill, in the third over of the innings. Hill gave a catch to Perry at square leg after clipping a delivery off his toes.

The dismissal started the slump that saw Clay Smith have his leg stump knocked back by a Rose inswinger when the score was five and then Gibbons, Steede and Clevie Wade were all removed on 14 to leave the home team in serious trouble at 14 for five.

Gibbons' only scoring stroke was a cover drive off the back foot against Cameron Cuffy, before Stuart Williams took a brilliant catch at gully off on the last ball off the same over.

Steede played on to his stumps first ball of the next over from Rose and Wade lasted just three deliveries before fishing at a delivery well outside off stump and giving a simple catch to wicket-keeper Jacobs.

Defeat was inevitable now though Jeff Richardson (20) and Douglas (31) at least gave hope of a respectable total with a sixth-wicket stand of 49, smashing 11 fours between them.

Richardson was in such an attacking mood that he also went after the first delivery from Perry and skied a catch to Antoine at long-off to end the stand.

Douglas was soon to follow when he hit a firm drive to long-off where Cuffy held the catch.

Perry then removed Allan Brangman and Perinchief and Rose came back to finish off the tour by bowling Wayne Richardson with the fifth ball of his eighth over.

Rose finished with five for 21 while Perry claimed three for eight from 10 overs. Cuffy had impressive figures of six overs, five maidens, four runs, one wicket while teenage spinner Chanderpaul was tidy in his 10 overs, which yielded one for 29 with three maidens.

TOKEN JOY -- Wicket-keeper Allan Douglas congratulates Wayne Richardson in early action yesterday, but there was nothing to shout about later as Bermuda's challenge wilted.