Bermuda coach Cal Waldron is approaching the encounter against Cayman Islands in a calculated manner on matchday three of the ICC T20 World Cup Americas Regional Final.

Waldron’s side bounced back on Monday from an energy-sapping defeat by Canada with a convincing victory over Bahamas. While Cayman have never beaten Bermuda on seven previous occasions, the past three results have been close.

Before Bermuda picked up the win over Bahamas, Cayman had earlier in the day bowled really well to restrict Canada to 162 for five. They were on track in their run chase when Jermaine Baker and Akshay Naidoo put on an opening stand of 44.

However, the rest of the batting order was not able to match the efforts of the opening pair, with Cayman finishing on 103 for nine, losing by 59 runs.

Bermuda must beat Cayman twice and complete a double over Bahamas on Thursday to maintain hopes of securing the Americas’ sole ticket to the T20 World Cup, to be hosted by India and Sri Lanka early next year.

“I think it’s about focusing and believing that you’re able and capable of bringing the required skill set on the day,” Waldron told The Royal Gazette.

“We showed against Bahamas that if we stick to it, it becomes fruitful for us. It’s about learning from the Canada game, where we didn’t really hit all the marks.

“Cayman went in with a game plan and it proved fruitful for them. They limited Canada to a reachable total. Unfortunately, they were not able to chase it down while batting, but kudos to them for sticking to their plan and achieving it.

“It goes to show that if you do the things correctly, we can restrict them [Canada] to totals that can be chased down.

”Reflecting on the opening two matches, Waldron felt that it went awry against Canada before they got it right the next day.

“We didn’t execute our game plan against Canada,” the coach said.

“They gave us a higher total to chase than we wanted and we were unable to chase it down to come out with a favourable result.

“We went back to the drawing board, looked at the good and the bad from the game against Canada.

“We’re looking to emphasise the good things against Bahamas. That showed in the result, we bowled some 60-plus dot balls and kept them to a total below 100.

“We understand where we are and what needs to be done. After Canada, we've had to practically readjust how we approach matches.

“We wanted to improve our net run-rate while at the same time being disciplined enough to be competitive and get a victory.”

Some sloppiness running between the wickets in the Canada match led to Tre Manders and Jermal Proctor being run out. Waldron stated that after reviewing the footage from that match, he made it clear that the players had a standard to uphold.

“We looked at the video footage and obviously spoke about it,’’ the coach said. “Some of the things we did in the Canada match are unacceptable from national team cricketers.

“We identified it [the run-outs] just as we identified all the good things we did. We want to look at both sides of the coin, we want to let players know what’s expected of them and what’s not expected of them.

“They’re national players, they should look different and be different from the mediocrity that we showed in the Canada match.”

Indications are that Manders will be restored at the top of the order to partner captain Terryn Fray when Bermuda face Cayman. That should see former captain Delray Rawlins, who was asked to open against Bahamas, drop down the order.

“Tre is good, he’s still getting his treatment from the little injury he sustained during the Bermuda Smash Invitational,” the coach added.

“Promoting Delray to open was an effort to chase the runs a lot quicker. Once Tre comes back into the team, we’ll look at where people fit in the batting order.”