Bermuda?s depleted Under 23 cricket team suffered a crushing defeat against Trinidad and Tobago by an innings and 42 runs at the Jamaica Broilers ground in Kingston yesterday.

Having bowled Bermuda out for 101 on Tuesday, Trinidad compiled 283 for the loss of only two in reply.

Then, set 182 to avoid an innings defeat, the Island?s batsman once again struggled to counteract a Trinidad attack which contained five frontline spinners, eventually being dismissed for a paltry 140.

In Bermuda?s first innings, opener Treadwell Gibbons top-scored with 24 while Dion Stovell (22) and Azeem Pitcher (15) were the only other batsman to make any sort of impression.

Trinidad, meanwhile, had few problems with the Island?s inexperienced attack ? although St.David?s? Steffan Kelly bowled well on the sluggish surface by picking up the only two wickets to fall.

In Bermuda?s second innings of 140 all out, Dion Stovell batted for almost two hours in notching up his 38, while Kian Butterfield (33) was the only other batsman to achieve a score of any note.

?Our guys are hugely inexperienced in this form of cricket,? said assistant coach Andre Manders from Jamaica yesterday.

?Many of them are still in one-day mode and are not content to be patient and accumulate. But we are missing most of our best player and we are acquitting ourselves OK in the circumstances