Dubai Sports City Bermuda 241 all out, beat UAE under-19s, 212 all out, by 29 runsThis was a game that Bermuda had absolutely no right to win, and yet they still managed to do so.Staring down the barrel with their opponents cruising along at 174-3 and needing just 67 to win, Bermuda battled back to take the last seven wickets for just 38 runs, winning with 2.4 overs to spare.The fact that Bermuda stuck to their task to the very end is indicative of the change that has gradually taken hold in the team over the past year. Tougher mentally, this is a hard side to beat.And there were plenty of positive individual performances along the way, most notably skipper David Hemp, who held his side's innings together with a knock of 105, and Malachi Jones, who bowled better in a Bermuda shirt than he has done for a long time and was rewarded with a four wicket haul for his efforts.It should also be taken in the context of what this tour is all about, training, and no matter how many net sessions a team has over the winter, it can never come close to match practice or match fitness.Which isn't to say that everything is rosy, nor, as head coach David Moore pointed out after the first win, should results be allowed to paper over the cracks.There are still too many mistakes, too many wasted overs, and too little discipline at crucial times for them to be ready to challenge the better sides on a regular basis.Once again the number of extras the team gave away, 32, was unacceptable, especially as 23 of those were wides. And two silly run outs, those of Jason Anderson (five) and Fiqre Crockwell (22), largely contributed to the perilous position Bermuda found themselves in after 22 overs, when they were 75 for four. A good Associate team would have beaten Bermuda quite comfortably yesterday, fortunately they were playing UAE under-19s, who, while undoubtedly talented, where just a little too naïve when it came to the crunch.“A win is win, but I think we've got to try and put things in perspective,“ said Hemp. “Because you're out of season, and you're in the nets it's completely different to playing a game out in the middle.“There are lots of things that we can work on, but, for me, it's not about who you're playing against, it's about how you play and what you can take from that. It's a good indication of where we are at the moment.”For Hemp the win needs to be taken in the context of the team's development as a unit, and the opposition against which it was achieved.“I think we tend to do things really well, and then we sort of switch off, lose concentration and focus,” said Hemp. “I don't think we are doing it as much as we were a year ago, so I think from that perspective we are a little more consistent in the way we are playing.“But to win games against good sides you've got to play well all the time, that's the habit we need to get into, is playing well over a 50 over period either with the bat or the ball.“You have to string together consistent performances throughout the whole game, and that's obviously what we are trying to do.“I think we're getting better at it, but we are nowhere near where we should be, to compete against good sides.”Hemp, and Lionel Cann (32) put on 76 for the fifth wicket, before Cann got himself out with 15 overs still to go when he tried to hit spinner Justin James out of the ground and was caught in the covers by Saurabhkant Gir.The Bermuda pair had been going along quite nicely at that point, picking up ones and twos and rotating the strike against a UAE team who seemed perfectly content to let them bat however they wanted.Skipper Aquib Malik certainly made a mistake with his field placings, especially over his failure to have a short fine leg, or even a leg slip, when the majority of runs were coming behind the wicket. A more experienced team might also have known to throw the ball up to Cann a little more, and earlier, considering his tendency to hit out at the slightest invitation.Still Bermuda's 241 looked to be a reasonable total until UAE batsmen Zamin Jaleel (41) and Chiraq Suri (52) got set and guided their side to 76-1 in 16 overs, following the early loss of Reuben Abraham.Even when Jaleel was out, Sathya Ramesh (65*) came in, and he and Suri took their team to 156 for two, and Ramesh and Dan D'Souza made it to 174 for three before the wheels came off for the home side.Ramesh's runs though came at a rather pedestrian pace, which had a lot to do with the way Bermuda tightened up their act in the field in the second half of the UAE innings. And when it came time to accelerate the scoring, the younger team didn't have the know-how, or the physical strength, to bash their way over the line.“In terms of the game we were never too far away, the (required run) rate never got below five, they never got it down to four, 3.5,” said Hemp. “So even though we had to battle, the game wasn't getting away from us, and in those situations what you need to do is keep it tight, and from 4.5, it (the required run rate) went to 5.3, and then up to 6.3.“I know they (UAE) are inexperienced, but that's what you need to do, that's how one-day games are won. I thought generally we weren't too bad in the field.”SCORECARDB>UAE Under-19s v BermudaBermudaD Stovall c Vijaykumer b A Malik 3D Hemp b Ahmed 105J Anderson run out (A Malik) 3F Crockwell run out (Gir) 22K Leverock st Vijaykumer b Muzammal 4L Cann c Gir b James 32D Borden lbw Suri 0M Jones st Vijaykumer b Ahmed 15R Trott not out 25D Bell c A Malik b James 2Kelly c Gir b A Malik 5Extras (4b, 13lb, 11w) 28Total (all out: 50 overs) 241Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-21, 3-60, 4-75, 5-151, 6-155, 7-203, 8-208, 9-220Bowling: A Malik 9-1-27-2, S Malik 3-1-8-0, K Vedhasinghe 4-1-14-0, S Gir 1-0-8-0, W Ahmed 10-0-53-2, C Suri 6-0-25-1, Muzammal 10-0-49-1, J James 7-1-40-2UAER Abraham c Jones b Kelly 0Z Jaleel lbw Borden 41C Suri c Bell b Jones 52S Ramesh not out 65D D’Souza c Anderson b Bell 5A Malik run out (Hemp/Anderson) 3Muzammal c Bell b Jones 0S Gir b Jones 3M Hamid c Kelly b Borden 9W Ahmed b Jones 0M Khan lbw Borden 2Extras (2b, 2lb, 5nb, 23w) 32Total (all out: 47.2 overs) 212Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-76, 3-156, 4-174, 5-183, 6-184, 7-197, 8-207, 9-209Bowling: Bell 10-0-60-0, Kelly 9-1-34-1, Jones 10-0-48-4, Borden 8.2-0-31-3, Stovell 10-1-35-0Umpires: R Shah, D Ahmed.Result: Bermuda won by 29 runs