HAMILTON (day one of four) - Uganda, with six first innings wickets remaining, trail Bermuda (91) by 20 runs.

When David Hemp and Gus Logie were discussing worse case scenarios for their Intercontinental Shield game against Uganda, being bowled out for 91 is unlikely to have featured heavily, even in their wildest imaginings.

Similarly, having their opponents at ten for four is not something they will have expected, even less so when three of the wickets were taken by debutant Kervon Fubler who had to pass a late fitness test just to play, after hurting his back on Friday.

Both things happened yesterday, on a day when fourteen wickets fell at the National Sports centre, all of which, without exception, were down to bad batting.

The affliction began with Bermuda opener Terryn Fray, continued on through the entire Bermuda innings, then affected Uganda, and only came to a halt after the visiting team had lost their fourth wicket.

Only Uganda skipper Baig Akabar (32*) and team-mate Frank Nusugba (20*) seemed immune to the affliction, as they put on 61 for the fifth wicket, the highest partnership of the day, to guide their side to 71 for four at the close of play.

Even then Uganda should have been in a far worse position with Akabar being dropped twice, first by Jekon Edness early in his innings, and again later by Terryn Fray when he was –on 22.

"I don't think anyone expected 14 wickets to fall in the day, the surface this morning looked good." said Bermuda skipper David Hemp who won the toss and elected to bat.

"It certainly wasn't a 90 all out wicket.

"The disapointing thing for me was that none of the batters really got in, we gave away too many soft wickets.

"Then we created two chances that we didn't take, so from our point of view it's disappointing that they've walked off four wickets down instead of six.

"But we're still in the game, and there's a lot of cricket still to be played, and we've got to believe that.

"The thing for me, and we talked about this in the changing room afterwards, was the batting display, which simply wasn't good enough.

"You can't get bowled out for 90, especially on a surface that wasn't a 90 all out surface.

"But I was pleased with the way we stuck at it with the ball, they're only scoring at two an over. We took four wickets and we created chances to get more than that, which is a plus thing.

"The players need to think about how we are going to bat in the second innings, and our approach individually.

"It's important that we bowl them out as close to us as possible. We can't afford to give easy runs away and we can't afford to give easy wickets away when we bat again."

It took just nine deliveries for the first wicket to fall yesterday, with Fray falling after facing only six balls on his senior debut for Bermuda.

The Bailey's Bay youngster was caught out by the pace and bouce that Uganda's Dennis Tabby created, and was caught at second slip trying to fend off a rising delivery.

Fellow opener Fiqre Crockwell followed in similar fashion moments later, and when Stephen Outerbridge was caught by wicketkeeper Lawrence Sematimba having miss-timed a hook shot, Bermuda had lost three wickets for just one run.

Hemp and Irving Romaine (15) briefly steadied the ship, putting on 25 for the fourth wicket, before Romaine tried to hook a short ball from Waiswa and only succeded in lobbing a gentle catch to Fred Isabirye at mid-wicket.

At 26 for four Bermuda looked like they could quite easily all be out before lunch for less than 50, but Jekon Edness and Hemp managed to stem the bleeding long enough to guide their side safely to the first break.

Unfortunately they couldn't do the same afterwards as the Uganda spinners picked up where the pace bowlers had left off.

Hemp was out soon after lunch, lobbing an attempted sweep into the hands of Roland Semanda to give Nsubuga the first of his four wickets.

Any hopes Bermuda had of putting up a competitive total disappeared with Hemp, and they lost their last five wickets for just 29 runs.

The last three of which all fell to Nusugba in a single over, and the Uganda spinner will be on a hat-trick the next time he gets his hands on the ball.

If Bermuda's innings had started badly, then Uganda's was equally shocking.

The visiting team managed to get nine runs on the board before they lost their first wicket, but they then proceded to lose four for just one run.

Jones began the collapse having Sematimba caught by Rodney Trott in the slips, but from then on it was all about Fubler. The 17-year-old produced a fine spell of fast bowling, and although helped by some lose shots from the Uganda batsman, was well worth his three wickets.

The Willow Cutts bowler finished with three for 11 from his seven overs, and a five wicket-haul in his first senior appearance for Bermuda is not out of the question.

At ten for four Uganda were wobbling, but a bit of luck and some sensible batting, means they will go into the second day slightly the happier of the two sides.

USA under-15s 200

Bermuda under-15s 199

Bermuda suffered an agonising one run defeat in their opening match of the ICC Americas Under-15 Northern Division against hosts USA at the Erkshire Cricket ground, in Brooklyn, New York.

The Islanders bowled the USA all out for 200 runs off 36.2 overs and looked well set for victory at 193 for seven before collapsing to 199 all-out, losing their last two wickets without scoring. Bermuda take on Canada today.

Bermuda: Shea Pitcher, Joshua Gilbert, Kamau Leverock, Christian Burgess, Tre Manders, Kamel Easton, Kwasi James Kirt Brown, Shaquille Jones, Winton Woodley, Jonte' Smith.

USA: Steven Taylor, Roshan Varadarajan,

Adithya Nagaraja, Amarnauth Persaud, Arsh Hemant Buch, Krishneal Kumar Goel, Kwiese Edmondson, Omar Naseer

Orvindo Singh, Pranav Pradhan, Rishi Patel, Travis Ross, Vikram Valluri, Zachary Zadoo

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Bermuda first innings

Terryn Fray c Akabar b Tabby 1

Figre Crockwell c Musoke b Waiswa 0

Stephen Outerbridge c Sematimba b Tabby 0

David Hemp c Semanda b Nsubuga 28

Irving Romaine c Isabirye b Waiswa 15

Jekon Edness c Isabirye b Arinaitwe 20

Rodney Trott c Isabirye b Arinaitwe 6

Malachi Jones c Tabby b Nsubuga 7

Kevon Fubler not out 0

David Lovell c Tabby b Nsubuga 2

Tamauri Tucker c Isabirye b Nsubuga 0

Extras (3b, 4lb, 3w, 2nb) 12

Total (all out, 43.5 overs) 91

Fall of wicket: 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-26, 5-62, 6-81, 7-88, 8-89, 9-91

Bowling: C Waiswa 7-4-10-2, D Tabby 10-4-23-2, J Sebanja 7-2-15-0, R Semanda 5-2-9-0, F Nsubuga 9.5-2-20-4, D Arinaitwe 5-2-7-2.

Uganda first innings

Roger Mukasa c Trott b Fubler 4

Lawrence Sematimba c Trott b Jones 3

Baig Akabar not out 32

Benjamin Musoke c Jones b Fubler 0

Fred Isabirye c Hemp b Fubler 0

Frank Nsubuga not out 20

Extras (1lb, 3w, 8nb) 12

Total (four four wickets, 33overs) 71

Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-9, 3-9, 4-10

Still to bat: Ronald Semanda, Davis Arinaitwe, Jonathan Sebanja, Charles Waiswa, Dennis Tabby.

Bowling: M Jones 10-4-11-1, K Fubler 7-2-11-3, R Trott 9-5-20-0, D Lovell 4-0-17-0, T Tucker 3-1-11-0.

Umpires: S Douglas, R Dill

Third umpire: A Fubler

Match referee: L Harnett

Statistician: M Glasford