On this evidence Bermuda’s trip to Dubai for the World Twenty20 Global Qualifiers next March is likely to be a painful one.Lionel Cann’s near schizophrenic performance over the course of one and a bit games against MCC on Saturday glaringly exposed the deficiencies in the Island’s senior team, at least among those who bothered to show up.Having spent most of Friday trying to round up enough players for two Twenty20 matches at the National Sports Centre, Bermuda head coach David Moore had just 14 who made themselves available.The result was a 35-run loss in the first game, and a second match that lasted just 9.1 overs before rain brought it to a premature end, during which time Bermuda reached 61 for three and showed more attacking intent than in the whole of their first innings.If Moore had been hoping to learn anything new from Saturday’s cricket he will have been sorely disappointed. All the Bermuda performances did was reinforce two already obvious points: the team are still too inconsistent, and some younger players are unfit.Which is not to say there weren’t some bright points to come out of Saturday’s encounters. Dennico Hollis again batted well in a Bermuda shirt, and the team’s batsmen seemingly learned their lesson from defeat in the first game.“These sorts of games are invaluable to what we are trying to achieve, what we are trying to get out of these games,” said Moore. “We are trying to learn from situations, we didn’t bat well in the first game, the second game we came out and dealt with it very well.”Cann batted twice on Saturday, facing a total of 51 balls and scoring 45 runs. At first glance those statistics do not seem too bad, however, Cann’s first innings saw him score 22 from 40 balls in a 53 run partnership with Dion Stovell that crippled Bermuda’s run chase.The pair were together for nearly 13 overs before Cann was caught on the cover boundary by Michael Baer, and it wasn’t until the following over that Stovell finally hit his team’s first boundary in their attempt to overhaul MCC’s 131 for seven, which was built on the back of a near run-a-ball 45 from Chris Benham.Stovell’s 24 from 50 balls wasn’t much better, although he received little help in the running department from Cann, who seemed disconnected from the situation on occassion.Not that the MCC didn’t play a part in Bermuda’s struggles, they did, with spin twins Craig Wright and Baer causing all sorts of trouble on a wicket that turned and bounced wildly for much of the day.While Baer didn’t take a wicket, he put a stranglehold on the openers, conceding just 13 runs from his four overs and paving the way for the rest of the bowling attack to take advantage of some increasingly desperate Bermuda batting. Wright meanwhile picked up three wickets, and Tim Van Noort got two to help offset the golden duck he had in MCC’s innings.“It was hard because their spinners bowled well, but you’ve still got to try and find a way to score, you can’t allow them to dominate,” said Moore.Hollis did his best to get the Bermuda innings moving, but by the time he came to the crease his team were 64 for five with little more than four overs remaining. The Bailey’s Bay man was unbeaten on 15 at the end, which included a big six off Van Noort, as his side finished well short on 96 for seven.Keen to make amends in the second game Cann launched the sort of all out assault he is known for and crashed MCC’s openers for 23 runs from just 11 balls. Richard Gilbert took most of the punishment, which included being hit for six into the swimming pool, but also had the last laugh when he dug a ball in slightly shorter and Cann’s mistimed swipe sent the ball looping into the hands of Will Jones.Hemp (14*) and Irving Romaine (18) put on 22 for the third wicket, after Stephen Outerbridge had come and gone, and Bermuda looked like reaching a reasonable total at one stage. The rain put an end to that as Romaine’s departure, caught behind off the bowling of Andrew Birley, proved to be the final act of a less than satisfactory day.“Intent was the difference I thought,” said Moore about his side’s performances. “When you’re 30 off 10 that hurts you. We had a discussion about it between the two games and clearly what we spoke about was followed.“But we had the same match plan we just couldn’t execute it in the first game. We got a flying start from Lionel (Cann), then (David) Hemp and Stephen (Outerbridge) continued, and after that Hemp and Irving (Romaine) took it on. That was great, that was exactly what we wanted.”Whether Bermuda have truly learned their lesson remains to be seen. The only consistent thing about the team during the past three years has been their inconsistency, in any form of the game. Similar performances against the likes of Ireland, Afghanistan and Namibia in Dubai will bring nothing but defeat, as it has consistently in the recent past.Moore’s side have two more chances to prove themselves against MCC, in a 50-over game tomorrow, and in the final match of the tour the day after, a Twenty20 day/night match at the National Sports Centre.