Steve Tikolo may have retired to bed last night the happiest man involved in this semi-final, but the Bermudian contingent are still positive going into today?s second day.

Both coach Gus Logie and skipper Clay Smith played their ?it-could-have-been-worse? cards while also maintaining that the batsman-friendly playing surface is now there for the taking.

?When you come up against a class player like Steve Tikolo you have to get him early or you?re in trouble,? said a tired Smith whose side ending up having to use eight bowlers over the best part of three sessions to dismiss the Kenyan skipper.

?Ryan (Steede) thought he had him lbw on two but we didn?t get the decision and then after that he just took control.

?At this level you are going to come up against players like him and he was on top form and there wasn?t a lot we could do to stop him.?

Smith admitted that the loss of Kevin Hurdle to a virus contributed to Kenya?s big score as did the three dropped catches in the first 40 overs.

?We have to be disappointed with those,? he continued. ?But these things are going to happen to any side and it is about how you respond to them. I thought we kept things pretty upbeat.

?It was hot out there and even three days here can?t prepare you to field for that long in that sort of heat.

?Some of the guys really felt it but I thought we did well to keep our heads up and keep things positive.

?It is a shame we didn?t have Kevin ? on that sort of pitch he really could have done something early on but losing players is something that happens and you have to deal with it.?

Logie was also in a positive frame of mind despite having just had to endure Kenya?s late-innings boundaryfest.

?I think I am content at this point,? said Logie, who had prowled the boundary ropes clapping and encouraging for large parts of the day.

?Hey, we lost two players to illness. We have come out here against a class side and a superb batsman and we have got through it.

?We have 11 fit players still and they did what they could to contain a dangerous side in very favourable conditions for the batsmen.?Yes, we could have bowled better but I think if you look at the score, things could have been much worse.

?Four hundred is a big total but on this sort of wicket it is to be expected.

?And when we get on to it, we will look to be patient, build an innings and hopefully post a big total of our own.?

Logie, in a break from coaching tradition, was keen to single out Kwame Tucker for special praise, lauding him for both his alert fielding and his ?mental toughness? to keep his wicket in that painful final hour of Kenyan aggression.

But without doubt the happiest man of the day was Tikolo, who described his innings as ?one of the best of my career?.

?We had lost two wickets early on, so when I came in the aim was to occupy the crease,? said the gentlemanly skipper who is as polite off the field as he is determined on it.

?We had to be patient and just made sure we got in a position where we were seeing the ball well and were comfortable.

?I was very happy with the way we stuck to that plan and then we started playing our shots when we were ready.

?That was the highest total of my first-class career and my first double-century. It is a real boost for me and for Kenyan cricket.

?We have gone through a lot of changes recently but I have always said that this team is good enough and we just need opportunities to show it.?