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Bermuda cricketers make it two wins out of two

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David Hemp scored a century and Malachi Jones took four wickets as Bermuda beat UAE under-19s by 29 runs in Dubai today.The win was Bermuda's seccond in a row and sets them up nicely for their first real test of the tour, when they play the UAE senior side on Friday.Hemp's ton was the cornerstone of the Bermuda innings, and gave them a defendable total of 241, after his team had collapsed to 75-4.Lionel Cann (32) also played his part in the recovery, and his stand of 76 with Hemp laid the foundations for Bermuda's respectable total.The visiting side probably should have scored 40 more runs than they did, but they lost Anderson (five) and Crockwell (22) to silly run outs, and Rodney Trott's unbeaten 25 at the end of the innings was just as valuable as Cann's knock.Trott should have been part of a two-pronged spin attack, alongside Delyone Borden, but he cut his leg on a table at lunch time and had to got to hospital to have stiches.In his absence, UAE got off to a flying start, with Zamin Jaleel (41) and Chiraq Suri (52) batting with skill that far belied their tender years.At 156 for three, and a bowling attack that was struggling to make many inroads, Bermuda looked like they might be beaten. But this is a side made of sterner stuff than teams gone by, and they fought back through Malachi Jones and Delyone Borden to take the final seven wickets for just 56 runs.Jones bowled better than he has done for a long time in a Bermuda shirt, while Borden again impressed taking three for 31.UAE will probably feel that they should have won that game from the position that they were in, and although Sathya Ramesh was unbeaten on 65, it took 89 balls to make his 50.The slowness of his scoring rate was mirrored in the required run rate, which never dropped below 4.5, and in the final 15 overs jumped from 5.3 to around nine, by the time Mohsan Khan was the last man out.