DUBAI SPORTS CITY(Bermuda won toss)Bermuda, 242 for seven, beat Hong Kong, 173 all out, by 69 runsBermuda head coach David Moore said he did not want the win over Hong Kong, nor Jason Anderson’s unbeaten 106, to mask the deficiencies in his team’s overall performance.The Island got their World Cricket League Division Two campaign back on track on Saturday, and other results mean it is still anyone’s competition.Only hosts UAE are unbeaten, while Uganda, who Bermuda play today, haven’t won yet. Of the rest Papua New Guinea, Hong Kong, Namibia and Bermuda have all won one, and lost one.However, Bermuda still have to play UAE and Namibia, and there were obvious signs this weekend that they still aren’t ready to take on, and beat, those two teams.First and foremost, the running between the wickets still leaves a lot to be desired and Bermuda were at least 30 or 40 runs shy of a total they should have scored against Hong Kong.Of the 300-odd deliveries that made up the Bermuda innings on Saturday, they failed to score off 180 of them. On top of that there were numerous occasions when twos were turned into ones by a complete inability to run the first single hard.Bermuda got away with it against a naïve Hong Kong side, who might well have won if they had kept their heads. Against UAE or Namibia, however, it will inevitably lead to defeat.“We didn’t score off around 60 percent of the balls that we faced in the innings, which isn’t good enough in a one-day game,” said Moore. “We’re just getting bogged down in the middle overs, where we’re not rotating the strike and guys aren’t looking to bat with intent to score.“They’re waiting for the bad balls, and again, at this level of cricket, you don’t get the bad balls. So then we’ve got to accelerate in the last few overs then there is a higher level of risk there.”Ultimately a stand of 93 between Anderson, who was dropped twice over the course of innings, and Cann (50) for the fifth wicket gave Bermuda a defendable total. The 50 runs the pair took off the batting power play helped break Hong Kong’s stranglehold, which had seen Bermuda restricted to 135 for four off 35 overs.“Cann came in and got 50, and batted very nicely, but we don’t really want (to rely on) that,” said Moore “I’d suggest we were 30 or 40 runs short of where we should have been because of our running between wickets and the fact that the batsmen at the top of the order soak up too many balls.“It’s great to have a batsman to bat through the innings and get a hundred (Anderson), that’s excellent, but we can’t cover up the cracks that we’re just not scoring off enough balls, and working the ball enough . . . because you can in Bermuda, you block three or four balls, and then go six, because of the small grounds and standard of bowling these guys face most of the time. They’ve got to understand that it’s a must to rotate the strike, because better teams will chase down 240-250.”Not that Moore isn’t delighted to have got a win on the board, and still has an eye on winning the whole thing.“It’s very good to get a win, obviously that’s what we’ve come here to do, is to win (the tournament),” said Moore. “We’ve got to beat Uganda and we really need to beat one of the other two top teams. We’re still not here to (just) survive. If we had lost today (Saturday) we would have been in deep trouble, but we’re back in it.”Hong Kong, meanwhile, are probably wondering what might have been after a recovery led by skipper Najeeb Amar (49) and bowler Ifran Ahmed (21) got them within sight of victory.The pair rescued their team from being 89 for six, after Damali Bell (two for 61) and Rodney Trott (three for 22) had put Bermuda on top, and put on 76 runs in 16 overs. In that time they had rotated the strike well, hit the bad ball and seemed perfectly at ease with everything Bermuda threw at them.Needing 79 runs from 72 balls, and with a batting power play still to come, Hong Kong were well in the game. Then Ahmed and Amar both got themselves out in one Dion Stovell (three for 25) over and their side collapsed, eventually losing their last four wickets for just eight runs.“We’ve done really well in the past chasing, even when we have lost early wickets,” said Hong Kong coach Charlie Burke.“That’s one thing we’ve prided ourselves on is backing ourselves, especially when two blokes are set like that, but Irfan (Ahmed) threw his wicket away, Najeeb (Amar) followed soon after and that really hurt us, obviously.”