DUBAI SPORTS CITY(UAE won toss)UAE, 257 for nine, beat Bermuda, 214 all out, –by 43 runs.If a death certificate were to be written for Bermuda cricket today, under the causes of death would be just two words: bad decisions.An illness that has plagued the team all this week and, in truth, for several years beforehand, it struck a vicious blow yesterday from which it might take years to recover.Struck down to Division Three of the World Cricket League after this latest defeat, Bermuda have now fallen so far, so fast, that it seems as if the heady days of 2007 are nothing more than a distant memory.And they only have themselves to blame.Once again Bermuda were in with a chance of winning yesterday, once again they blew it, and even if they had managed to hold out until all their overs were up, and still lost, they might yet have survived.Relegated by the tiniest of margins, their -0.708 net run rate, as opposed to Hong Kong's -0.462, may well have been reversed if Bermuda had managed to bat for 50 overs.They didn't yesterday and only managed to do so once in the entire tournament when, batting first, they beat Hong Kong in the second game.The current team will shoulder much of the responsibility for the decline, and it is right that they should do so given their performances of the past week, but they must not stand alone.Bad decisions have been rife in Bermuda cricket for several years, the most recent of which might have been the nine months it took from receiving David Moore's CV in June, 2009, for the Bermuda Cricket Board to finally getting around to appointing him in March, 2010.That was nine months after the team were relegated to Division Two, and almost half way through the two-year cycle that was leading back to this point.There have been other bad decisions in that time, certainly the fact that Bermuda is, or rather, was, the only elite Associate nation without turf practice wickets is not one of the BCB's better achievements. Even Papua New Guinea have turf practice wickets.All that, however, is in the past, and it is the bad decision making on the field this week that has ultimately cost Bermuda their Division Two spot, their High Performance status, and some $400,000 in ICC funding.In all areas of the game the team have been found wanting, and yesterday was no different, it's just that this time there were no second chances.“I'm very angry, because I know how we can perform,” said skipper David Hemp, “but we haven't done all week, so there are no excuses. The bottom line, you get what you deserve at the end of the day.“We haven't played consistently well enough all week, and now we're out of the competition.“I'm not really fussed about whether we should have won today or not, I'm more concerned about the whole week, and why you can't; A) get up for games, and B) put enough effort and commitment in during those games.“There's no point looking at just one game and saying, oh we should have done this, we should have done that, it's been like that all week. And we haven't performed consistently in the bowling, fielding, or batting department across the whole board, for the whole week.“So you get what you deserve at the end of the day.”As has been the case for much of the tournament, Bermuda gave themselves a chance to win yesterday. They bowled reasonably well, and unlike against Namibia, did not let it slip in the closing stages, having restricted UAE to 161 for three off 35 overs.Opener Amjad Ali (57) led the way for UAE, but Saqib Ali (42) aside, none of the other batsmen made it past the twenties.Once again Bermuda's spinners did most of the work, with Rodney Trott taking three wickets for 42 runs, and Irving Romaine four for 37 as UAE rather collapsed towards the end and finished on 257 for eight.Having failed to chase a score all week, there was little evidence to suggest that Bermuda might be successful this time around.However, Dion Stovall (77) picked up where he left off against Namibia and after the early departure of Jason Anderson (17) and then Chris Foggo (13), he and Hemp (39) put on 73 for the third wicket.At 148 for two off little more than 30 overs, Bermuda were well in the game. Then Stovell was out lbw to Ahmed Raza, and Hemp then got out sweeping to Arshad Ali, and Bermuda were 161 for four.Still they needed only 97 from the final 15 overs, and had veterans Irving Romaine and Lionel Cann to come.As it was, Romaine started brightly but was then caught on the boundary for 18 in the early stages of Bermuda's batting powerplay, and Cann fared little better, making it to 17, before getting himself stumped.After that the end was rather inevitable, and the final four wickets went down for just 20 runs.“It's been a very poor tournament and we've only got ourselves to blame,” said head coach David Moore. “Unfortunately at the beginning of the series I spoke about decision making as being one of our keys, and throughout the series we didn't make the right decisions at the right time.“Whether it was batting, bowling, or fielding, overthrows, not being able to bat innings out. When push comes to shove, we've finished fifth by 0.2 of a point, it's just a matter of in one of those games batting 50 overs.“Using all your overs, and adding maybe 15 to 20 runs. Or, bowling better on the first day, or not going so slow against Uganda. Now, once the players leave the dressing room, we've got no control over them.“You make a bad decision every now and then, but our bad decisions cost us games.”Uganda were also relegated yesterday, after they fell just two agonising runs short of beating Papua New Guinea and sneaking into the top four.Chasing 187 to win, Uganda finished on 185 for nine, having recovered from being 106 for six. They and Bermuda face each other today in a fifth place play-off game.Namibia, meanwhile, will meet UAE in the final after they beat Hong Kong by three wickets.More World Cup coverage see Pages 18 and 19, and Clay Smith's column on Page 20.