Bermuda moved into the Plate final of the ICC Trophy tournament in Malaysia after rain intervened, forcing the abandonment of yesterday's match against Fiji.

A day long tropical downpour, in fact, forced all eight matches to be curtailed, with four reverse quarter-finals declared no results.

The weather, though, benefitted Bermuda as they were allowed to advance based on superior net run rate to the Fijians through the first round. Bermuda, eliminated on Sunday from the World Cup qualifying stage, take on United Arab Emirates on Saturday, the latter having beat United States on Tuesday.

Bermuda won the toss and elected to bat first against their South Pacific opponents. However, once again Bermuda's frontline batsmen fell flat, with only captain Albert Steede producing at the top of the order and Bermuda needing two late stands to take them nearer the 150 mark and adding some respectability.

Arnold Manders top scored with 28 at number seven, a contribution that in the end mattered little but it emphasised the failure of the early order.

Steede, thrust back in the opener position alongside Roger Trott, grafted his way to 21 from 71 balls, stroking just one boundary off 40 balls.

The union between the skipper and Trott lasted but 12 minutes and accounted for just five runs before the latter was caught behind by wicketkeeper Cakacaka off Trione Batina for one.

New batsman Glenn Smith joined Steede as the pair moved to 20 before Smith likewise fell to Batina, bowled for eight.

Clay Smith was next to go for six, leaving Bermuda precariously placed at 32 for three after 6.3 overs.

However, Steede and number five Janeiro Tucker buckled down to the task of resuscitating the Bermudian innings, moving slowly past the 50 mark before Steede's resistance was unearthed by Neil Maxwell, who trapped him lbw with the total 62 and just under 23 overs gone.

Tucker followed three overs later as the second Maxwell victim, bringing together Manders and wicketkeeper Dean Minors.

The pair battled their way across the century mark to 107 with Manders occupying the lead role, however just as they appeared set Minors collapsed against the bowling of Joeli Mateyawa when on 18.

Manders was then partnered by Corey Hill for the seventh wicket and they managed to put on a further 38 before Hill was out caught and bowled by Maxwell for 22.

Maxwell ended up with sparkling figures of four for 17 from nine overs, while Batina and Mateyawa returned three for 23 and three for 35 respectively.

Bermuda had reduced Fiji to 31 for three when rain intervened in the middle of the 13th over, Corey Hill having grabbed two of the three wickets to fall, catching Lesi Soroumkatawi (seven) and having Cakacaka (zero) stumped while Kevin Hurdle claimed the other, that of Soroyakatsmi for a top score of 17.

Hill's victims came at considerable expense, the medium pacer giving up 27 runs in six overs, while Hurdle's single scalp came at a cost of 16 runs in five overs.

Meanwhile, organisers awarded each team involved in the quarter-finals one point each for no result.

In Group E, Kenya batted first against Denmark to make 33 for 4 in 9.4 overs before the reverse quarterfinal game was called off because of rain. In the same group, Canada batted first and made 99 for 4 in 29.4 overs against Scotland before the match was abandoned.

The Bangladesh-Ireland match in Group F lasted much longer. Ireland batted first to be all out for 129 in 49.1 overs. Bangladesh had scored only 24 runs without loss in 6.4 overs when the rain started. In the other Group F match, Hong Kong made 170 all out in 47.5 overs and Ireland could make only 16 runs.