Bermuda will face West Indies HP for the third time today on their tour of Canada, and the most interesting thing will be to see which Bermuda team shows up.

Will it be the one that lost by just 19 runs to West Indies in a rain-affected 30-overs game last Wednesday, or will it be the one that was hammered by West Indies and Canada in the Twenty20 matches on Saturday?

Will the Malachi Jones who took four wickets in two overs in the first game be on hand to lead the bowling attack, or will the other version appear and deprive his team of a fast bowler who has the ability to get out any batsman?

Whatever the case, there is no doubt that Jones will play, unless he gets sick or injured because head coach David Moore cannot afford to leave him out.

However, not even Moore can predict with any certainty which team will turn up today. And that's primarily because in his six months in charge, Bermuda have yet to produce a complete team performance.

There have been good individual displays throughout the summer, ones which have masked the issues with the side and the first game against the West Indies is the perfect example of that.

While the bowling effort was impressive, getting West Indies all out for 172 after an 89-run opening partnership is no mean feat, the batting, once again, was well below par.

David Hemp (78) and Jason Anderson (11) were the only two batsmen to get into double figures and the West Indies helped Bermuda on their way by bowling 19 extras.

If not for Hemp's innings, then Bermuda would have been on the wrong end of a serious hiding. And while some might argue that as the skipper, and most experienced batsman, that is partly his job, he won't succeed every time.

So what of the rest?

For many in the team this game will be another lesson in a steep learning curve that was always likely to be a little painful.

Anderson, Dion Stovell, and Kevon Fubler are really facing this quality of opposition for the first time, Kyle Hodsoll and Tamauri Tucker are largely inexperienced at this level while it is easy to forget that Joshua Gilbert is a relative newcomer to the team and is only 16.

Even Terryn Fray, who is at home in this environment, is still learning his craft as a top order batsman. Fray though won't play today as he is back in Bermuda preparing to leave for university.

All is not lost, however. Although Bermuda were thrashed at the weekend, Stovell, Anderson, and Fiqre Crockwell all showed glimpses of being more than capable of playing at a higher level.

With the ball, Fubler has bowled just one solitary over but has done enough in training to warrant a further look. While, for all his issues, Jones is still the best bowler in the side.

If Bermuda are to win today, and the players to justify the faith shown in them by David Moore, all will have to perform. That's something they need to start doing anyway.

And what if they lose?

Four defeats in four games could hardly be viewed as unfortunate, especially considering the manner of two of those defeats. And there will still be two 50-over games against a good Canada team to come.

Bermuda could end the tour without having won a game.

The trip though was always meant to be about education, about exposing a largely inexperienced squad to a better standard of cricket. They are certainly getting that against a West Indies team packed with future Test stars, and bowlers who fire the ball down faster than anything seen in Bermuda for more than decade.

Results though are what teams live and die by and defeat could see the noise created by the clamour for the return of several veterans grow even louder.