Sharjah - Bermuda, 275-6, beat UAE under-19s, 274-9, by four wickets.The Sharjah Cricket Stadium has played host to 200 One Day Internationals since it was first opened, there won’t be many that will have been as exciting as Bermuda’s win over UAE Under-19s.It might not have the pull of many of the other games that have been hosted at the now rather dilapidated venue, but for sheer drama yesterday’s encounter will be pretty hard to beat.There were moments of quality, moments of mediocrity, and the very serious threat of an upset. Everything in fact that makes sport at any level so compelling.In the end Bermuda won with just four balls to spare, and that they managed to win at all was down to a spirited fight back led by Lionel Cann (85) and Rodney Trott (38*).The pair put on 113 in a sixth wicket stand that rescued Bermuda from 140 for five and the brink of defeat, and took them to within touching distance of victory.Fourteen players will be in the squad that returns to Dubai in April for the Division Two qualifiers, several names are already certain to be among that number, Cann’s should probably be added to that list.If there was any doubt before about the veteran’s place, it has been almost completely dispelled by his performances over the past week.Not that yesterday’s innings wasn’t without it’s dramas, and ideally he would have been around to score the winning runs, but Cann is Bermuda’s best option at five or six, and the batting line-up looks infinitely stronger for his inclusion.Trott too seems a likely candidate to be one of the spinners on that trip, and if anything his day was even better than Cann’s.He took four wickets for 40 runs in 10 overs, and was then around at the death as he, and Stefan Kelly, calmly knocked off the final 22 runs for victory.The honour of scoring the winning run should probably have gone to Trott, but with four needed off the final over, his lofted-drive off the first ball from Aqib Malik stopped short of the boundary and they only managed to run three.With the scores level that left Kelly to drop the ball into the covers and sprint the single that sent him leaping into the air, and brought cheers from the Bermuda side of the pavilion.The joy not only came from a thrilling conclusion to the match, but from the almost certain realisation that they had dodged a bullet.UAE Under-19s have come close to beating them at least twice on this trip, and their best chance yesterday came from a sluggish Bermuda bowling performance on a lifeless pitch, and two impressive displays with the bat from Swapnil Patil (97) and Shaimon Anwar (91).Members of the senior UAE team drafted in to bolster a brittle under-19 batting line-up, Patil and Anwar gave the touring side a lesson in building an innings and compiling a big score.Such was the dominance of the two, that Swapnil was retired when he reached 52 in order that one of the other batsmen might get a look in.At that stage UAE were 125 for one, with 25 overs still left to bat, and Jordan Desilva had blown two chances to catch Anwar on the boundary in the previous over.They had reached that point largely thanks to a Bermuda bowling performance that lacked discipline and penetration.Without assistance from the wicket, the tourists’ bowlers lacked ideas on how to make a breakthrough, and they sent down too many lose deliveries to achieve one through accumulative pressure.Thankfully Patil’s voluntary departure achieved what Bermuda could not do on their own, and three new batsmen, Sathya Ramesh, Chiraq Suri and Zamin Jaleel, were all sent packing by Trott for a combined two runs.Trott then rounded off his ten over spell by trapping Sarwan lbw for 91, and UAE had stumbled 158 for five. That they passed 150 during that time was entirely down to Sarwan, who having taken 73 balls to make 50, needed just 15 more to move within sight of his 100.Bermuda though could not capitalise on their new position of strength, and Aqib Malik (39) and the returning Patil took full advantage of more mediocre bowling as they nudged, cut, and bashed their side to274 for nine.In reply Bermuda started brightly, tailed off, looked dead and buried, and then rose again. All their problems though were self-inflicted, and the soft nature of the dismissals that saw them floundering at 140 for five will be a cause for concern.Openers Dion Stovell (26) and David Hemp (49) put on 43 for the third wicket, before Stovell tried one big shot too many and was caught at mid-off by Muzammal. Kamau Leverock (four), Fiqre Crockwell (14), and even Hemp, who was out lbw trying to sweep a straight, fuller ball from Waleed Ahmed, all followed in similar fashion.When Chris Foggo (35) was then unluckily run out backing up at the non-striker’s end, Bermuda were in real trouble.But then came Cann and Trott, and a period of sensible batting, interspersed with some brutal hitting followed. The real turning point was the 43 runs that the pair put on in the power play overs that they took earlier than a team might normally do.It shifted the momentum of the game to the batting side, who had, up until that point, struggled to get on top of a UAE side that bowled with a tightness and discipline that Bermuda would do well to master.By the time Kelly arrived at the crease the game had become Bermuda’s to lose, they didn’t, and they will return to the Island having won four of their five games on tour.