It may have been a happy weekend for many but sadly the local cricket fraternity cannot be counted amongst them after the touring West Indies Select clinched their third win in as many days yesterday at Lord's.

This comfortable eight-wicket triumph served again to show Bermuda's inadequacies against top-class opposition as Eugene Antoine, in his first match of the tour, claimed the team's best bowling figures so far -- six for 17 from 8.1 overs -- and then left it to opening batsman Philo Wallace to complete the win with a blistering 83 not out, which is also the best knock of the tour to date.

For the third straight time West Indies captain Roland Holder won the toss and asked the local team to bat on a dampish wicket.

But unlike the previous two matches the early scoring was more fluent as Eugene Foggo and Dennis Archer put on 39 for the first wicket in 10 overs before the introduction of Antoine as a replacement for Cameron Cuffy at the clubhouse end broke the promising stand to spark a collapse.

In his second delivery of the match Antoine bowled Archer for 19 and then came back to take three wickets in his third and fourth (two) overs to have the local team reeling at 49 for four by the 18th over. Foggo (12), captain Albert Steede (eight) and Cleon Scotland (nought), who faced just two deliveries, were all back in the pavilion.

It got worse in the next over from the tall Trinidadian when Charlie Marshall responded to a call by Lionel Cann for a quick single but failed to beat Shivnarine Chanderpaul's throw from backward square leg.

And when Allan Douglas was trapped lbw by off-spinner Nehemiah Perry to make it 66 for six in the 25th over the local team must have feared falling for the lowest total of the tour so far. But Cann showed plenty of character in his 81 minutes at the crease as he led the fightback in a fourth-wicket stand of 42 -- the team's biggest -- with Quinton Burch, which brought up the 100 after 137 minutes.

Paceman Cameron Cuffy returned at the northern end and broke the stand with his only wicket of the match when he got one to move off the seam to the driving Cann and Robert Samuels held a fine, lunging catch at slip. Cann faced 66 balls in his top score of 24, which included two sixes.

Chanderpaul also took his only wicket of the match, with the last ball of his 10th over, when he got Burch to sky a shot to Holder at extra cover after contributing 22 to his team's cause. Roger Blades hit a brisk 21 not out off 23 balls before running out of partners.

Again the West Indies had a bad start when Kenny Phillips knocked back left-hander Robert Samuels' leg stump with his fourth delivery of the innings -- and the first to the Jamaican.

But any thoughts of an upset faded during a 49-minute, 82-run second wicket stand between the lanky Wallace and John Eugene. Eugene, who hit six fours in his 32, departed when he came down the crease to drive a delivery from orthodox leg-spinner Wayne Richardson and was smartly stumped by Douglas.

That was to be the last wicket to fall for the day as Wallace and his captain, fellow Barbadian Holder, put on 56 for the unbroken third wicket. Wallace finished with a flurry of boundaries in his unbeaten 83, which included 15 fours from 84 balls while Holder was not out on 21.

Richardson was the most economical of the Bermuda bowlers with one for 23 from nine overs. Phillips was the most expensive, giving up 38 from his four overs, 15 in his opening two-over spell and 23 when he returned Wallace made him pay for short-pitched bowling down the leg side.

"The wickets we have played on so far have been damp from the start,'' said Holder of his reason to send the opposition in first on three occasions. "The team batting first was always made to struggle. To get a really good game you have to have suitable conditions, conditions that are the same for both sides.

"If we were to bat first we would have got a good score because guts is something you need in this game. I don't think we saw enough guts from your players and running between the wicket was not very good.'' Holder has promised some good cricket from his players right to the end of the tour. "We're here to play cricket,'' he said simply.

"Our bowlers have done reasonably well and the only time we didn't get it quite together was the first game.

"As we play more we will definitely get better. We have a very good side, all young and energetic. The opposition bowlers are all medium-pacers and West Indians thrive on medium-pacers.

"I still believe we can get better because we're not at our best yet. Every individual believes he can do better.'' FABULOUS PHILO -- Philo Wallace finished with a flurry of boundaries in his unbeaten 83.