KING CITY (Bermuda won toss): Canada beat Bermuda by 77 runs.

Canada restored a little bit of pride in Toronto with a thumping win over Bermuda in the third and final One Day International.

Abdool Samad celebrated his adopted country's national day, hitting a 130 in a record-breaking partnership with Ashish Bagai (84).

The pair put on 217 for the third wicket, easily surpassing Canada's previous best of 106 against Ireland last year.

Samad likes playing against Bermuda, yesterday's innings was his highest one day score, and his highest first class score, 119, was against Bermuda in an Intercontinental Cup match in 2006.

It was just as well that the pair did manage to put together a decent stand, because, Ian Billcliff aside, no other batsman reached double figures in the total of 276.

In the abscence of Dwayne Leverock, George O'Brien and Ryan Steede, Bermuda's bowlers did well enough to suggest that there is some depth in the squad.

Kyle Hodsoll led the attack well, taking 2-48 in nine overs on his ODI debut, and was ably supported by Tamauri Tucker, who was the pick of the bowlers taking 4-56 in ten overs.

Chasing 277 to win, Bermuda never really got going and their failure to get the scoring rate above four runs an over meant they were always likely to fall short.

There were plenty of positives to come out of the day however, with Stefan Outerbridge and Rodney Trott once again proving that they are more than comfortable playing at this level.

Outerbridge hit 56 in a stand of 90 with skipper Irving Romaine (60) as they rescued their side from a perilous position of 33-3.

The stand though took 24 overs, with Outerbridge facing 104 balls for his 56, and a run rate above five at the beginning of innings slowly climbed above eight.

By the time the youngster was out in the 34th over, Bermuda was well behind the run rate, and although Rodney Trott and Jekon Edness made an effort to move things along, Bermuda was always going to be struggling, eventually finishing on 199-7.

Canada's bowling attack, which had presented only a few problems for the tourists' batsmen in the first two games, was boosted by the debut of the Guyana fast bowler Eion Katchy who took 3-39 in his ten overs.

Katchy was ably supported by his opening partner Sri Lanka quick Sanjayan Thuraisingam who took 2-33 from his ten overs.

The pair went a long way to snuffing out any chance the Bermuda batsman had of chasing down the total.