With four wins out of five to their name, Bermuda appeared to enjoy a very successful time of it in the UK ? though coach Gus Logie was only guardedly optimistic when assessing the performance on his cricket-weary squad yesterday.

Winning, of course, is a habit, and after being on the receiving end of some almighty batterings from the Zimbabweans in Trinidad last month, an extended run of victories will have done the national side?s confidence a world of good.

But Logie is not kidding himself.

Bermuda lost their one and only game against a side of any real quality ? even if they were unfortunate to lose the toss and be asked to bat on a damp wicket in the opening game against Sussex?s Second XI on a miserably cold morning at East Grinstead Cricket Club ? while they might have been more ruthless in dispatching the feebler challenges of both Lloyds and Guernsey.

?Results are always good for the confidence, but as I have repeatedly said, they do not always tell the whole truth in terms of how we performed,? said a refreshingly candid Logie after Bermuda?s final win over a Guernsey Cricket Association President?s XI on Monday.

?To be sure there were plenty of positives that can be taken out of the games, and the squad as a whole I think is moving in the right direction. But we were expected to win the majority of these games and even though we did, there were times when we did not make the most of certain situations and against better sides we might have been punished for that.?

The main area of concern for Logie was the inability to convert good starts into scores in excess of 250.

Before this particular trip, it is difficult to recall an opening partnership of any great substance, though now that there has been some significant improvement in this area, it is unfortunate that the usually sound middle order has suddenly fallen short.

Part of the problem, Logie believed, was that even though the top order were not giving their wickets away quite so cheaply, in not scoring quickly enough in the first 15 overs and taking advantage of the fielding restrictions, the likes of Irving Romaine, Janeiro Tucker and Dean Minors were under a huge amount of pressure to increase the tempo as soon as they arrived at the wicket.

?We?ve had some good opening partnerships on this tour, which was good to see, but scoring at more than four an over is crucial in the first 15 overs,? Logie said.

?Against Lloyds for instance we were something like 80 for no loss, but we had used up almost 25 overs getting there and you are asking a lot of your middle order, particularly on early-season English wickets, to come in straight away and score freely.

?That?s why we gave George O?Brien a chance to open against Guernsey because I was looking for somebody to really get after the bowling early on ? which to his credit he managed to do. This is an area we are going to have to improve because it is very difficult to get more than 250 if you do not score quickly enough at the beginning.?

Logie stressed before the start of the three-game series in Guernsey that he was more interested in seeing three of his batsmen score hundreds than winning games ? though what he got in the end was a 57 not out from Irving Romaine, a 71 from Delyone Borden and a 93 from his skipper Janeiro Tucker.

?It was good to see some of the batsmen get in and then go on to a decent score,? he said.

?But the best sides have batsmen capable of scoring hundreds in limited overs cricket and I believe that we have players capable of doing that. It?s a confidence thing to a certain extent, and I think once one person does it, we could see a few more. Twenties and 30s will only get you so far against good teams.?

One of the major plus points that can be taken from the tour was the performance of the three spinners, Dwayne Leverock, Delyone Borden and Hasan Durham.

With Leverock his normal self with the ball, the addition of Borden in particular gave Bermuda?s attack a cutting edge it previously lacked while Durham also enjoyed himself on the drier wickets of Guernsey where the ball tended to grip and turn.

With only Saleem Mukuddem and to some extend Ryan Steede looking anything like threatening with the new ball, it became obvious that Bermuda?s main bowling asset is spin and Logie agreed that serious consideration must be given to playing them together on a more consistent basis.

?The slow bowling department is looking very healthy,? he said.

?All three of them were impressive and it was particularly good to have Delyone back playing cricket again because it gives the side an added dimension with the ball as well as with the bat. We?ll have to see how it goes, but if the conditions are right we will look to play the three of them when we can.?

The national squad will now be given an extended break after back-to-back tours and will return for fitness assessments in two weeks? time.

They must then begin to prepare for their Stanford 20-20 campaign in Antigua next month, quickly followed by almost a month-long tour of Canada, beginning the day after Cup Match.