the second Test between England and Pakistan.

Yesterday it was Church who kept the scorers busy as he guided MCC Young Cricketers to a four-wicket win over Bermuda with an unbeaten 103.

Once this young man from the Lord's training programme got into his stride the tourists never had a prayer, but it almost goes without saying that he was dropped very early in his innings.

So the coldest day of the tour ended on a suitably miserable mote as Bermuda failed to overcome relatively inexperienced opposition at the Knowle and Dorridge ground near Birmingham.

Captain Wendell Smith said before the match that after winning four tosses and losing four matches he was looking for a reversal of fortune.

Part one of the plan was executed perfectly -- John Harvey won the toss and sent Bermuda in.

Almost immediately things started to go wrong, but Smith had the considerable consolation of making a splendid personal contribution to end a run of low scores.

By lunch he had lost brother Clay (one), Charlie Marshall (15), Noel Gibbons (17) and Darrin Lewis (nine) but looked suitably relieved with his unbeaten 36 and remarked: "I feel like a man let out of jail.'' His joy was short-lived as Clevie Wade went soon after lunch, closely followed by Jeff Richardson and Bermuda's innings was in a sorry state at 103 for six when Dean Minors arrived to join his captain.

Not before time, the pair embarked on a partnership, which almost threatened to take the game beyond the reach of their opponents.

Minors cracked six fours and put a six on the roof of the pavilion but after making 51 he went the way of so many of his colleagues in earlier matches.

Instead of setting out to build a really big total he fell leg before to Karl Bird.

Smith carried on where Minors had left off and was still there at the end, unbeaten on 89 having hit 14 fours. But with so little coming from the other end, Bermuda could only set MCC a modest total of 215 from 50 overs.

A spectacular start to the MCC innings saw the match swing one way and then the other -- all in the opening six overs.

After the first three, MCC were 21 without loss. After three more they had scored one more run but had lost two wickets to the fiery pace of Terry Burgess.

With his pace partner Kenny Phillips, Burgess bowled flat out on the first wicket of the tour that has provided some reward for the speed merchants.

At one stage, Minors was standing 20 yards behind the batsmen and still taking deliveries from Phillips at head height.

Burgess made the breakthrough in the fourth over when Carl Thomas drove straight to Charlie Marshall at mid-on. Church enjoyed his slice of luck in the next over when Phillips found the edge but perhaps had too much pace for Gibbons who flew high and to his right but could not cling on to the ball.

New batsman David Eckles was out without scoring when Burgess found an edge and Minors claimed the catch. Eckles said afterwards that the ball was skidding off the green top and clearly a few of his colleagues had problems before the MCC batsmen settled.

Carl Rogers became the second victim for Phillips and then Gibbons kept up the pressure by claiming the wickets of Brinkley Gilbert and Steve Cooper to leave MCC in trouble on 68 for five. Like Bermuda they were in need of a partnership and they found one when Keith Newell joined Church.

Del Hollis, Wade and Marshall all proved expensive as MCC first staged a recovery and then set off after the target. At times the required run rate climbed above five an over but there was never any doubt MCC would get there if Church remained.

With Newell, he put on 122 for the sixth wicket. When Newell played Wade to give Hollis a catch in the deep MCC were just 25 from their target. The only question was whether Church would reach a well-earned century before MCC won the game, but that doubt was removed as the 20-year-old struck fours to all parts of the boundary and emulated Minors by hitting a six onto the pavilion roof.

It all ended in the 47th over as Church struck two successive fours off Burgess -- who still gave up only 29 from 8.3 overs -- to end any hopes of a late fightback by the tourists.

Today, the Bermuda side will be rejoined by Ricky Hill, who spent yesterday with a dentist for repairs to the bridge, which was broken when he was hit in the face in the Worcestershire match.

A relaxing day is planned and some of the squad will be looking to pick up a few tips by watching Warwickshire against Middlesex. Tomorrow they will be back in action, training at Edgbaston in preparation for the last match of the tour at Leicester on Friday.

The feeling is that their best chance of a tour win has now gone but the hope is that the hard lessons will amount to good experience for the next ICC Tournament.