Heavy rain continued to hamper Bermuda's World Cup cricket preparation in Trinidad over the weekend.

On Saturday wet conditions resulted in postponement of the national squad's third practice match against local league side Police CC.

The weather has badly disrupted the current tour of coach Gus Logie's homeland as their first two matches against Wanderers CC and Clarke Road United were also hit by rain.

"Rain has been pouring here and there's no way we can play any cricket for possibly the next two days. Even the Trinidad and Guyana (Carib Beer Series) match has been washed out and no ball has been bowled yet," Logie told .

Logie admitted weather conditions were hurting his tour plans.

"We came here to get conditioning work done as well as play cricket," he explained. "But we haven't been able to play any cricket, and so that side of things has been hampered."

However, rain hasn't stopped the players from training as the team have enjoyed practising in the indoor net facilities at the Frank Worrell Cricket Academy in Couva.

"Obviously we can't practise outdoors because all of the venues are pretty damp. So we've had morning sessions starting at 6 a.m. going on to 1 p.m. basically consisting of video assessment of our own performances in the nets as well as video sessions of some of the teams we have played against like Kenya," Logie added.

Assisting Logie during the camp are his former West Indies team-mates, all rounder Bernard Julian, batsman Larry Gomes, fast bowler Tony Gray and left arm slow bowler Raphick Jumadeen.

"Larry and Bernard are assisting us with some of the technical stuff and we also had a trip to Port-of?Spain to have a look at the stadium (Queen's Park Oval) where we are going to be playing (in the World Cup) and even the hotel hopefully we are going to be staying at.

"So the players are still getting a good feel for the environment and travelling and moving around the area."

The national team are scheduled to take on local clubs W Connection and Clico Preysal tomorrow and on Wednesday before returning home on January 19.

Preysal, coached by former Windies fast bowler Gray, completed a five-match tour of Bermuda last September unbeaten.

The squad will then depart for Kenya on January 24 for another warm-up match against Uganda before facing associate rivals Canada, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands and host country Kenya in the World Cricket League.

The top two teams at the end of the round-robin competition will automatically qualify for September's inaugural Twenty20 World Championships to be held in South Africa.

Cricket umpire Darrell Hair will return to duty in Kenya later this month and could be behind the stumps for Bermuda's opening match against the hosts in the World Cricket League.

Hair, who was demoted from top flight matches over a ball-tampering dispute, will first officiate in matches involving Kenya, Scotland and Canada in a six-game series from January 17 to 24 and then move on to the WCL.

The International Cricket Council ruled in November that Hair should not take charge of games involving any of the top Test playing nations after a complaint by Pakistan that he was biased against Asian teams.

That accusation came after Hair accused Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq of ball-tampering during the final Test against England at The Oval. Inzamam was later found not guilty of ball-tampering, but he was banned from four games for bringing the game into disrepute by preventing his players from taking the field after Hair had made the ruling.

Kenya, Bermuda's first opponents in the WCL in Nairobi, have excluded three of their leading players from the competition.

Wicketkeeper and opening bat Kennedy Otieno, batsman Hitesh Modi and medium pace bowler Martin Suji were not among a squad named over the weekend.

"Our rules state that when a player is not in camp two weeks before a major tournament, we can't have him in the team," said Cricket Kenya chief executive Tom Tikolo.

Tikolo said the three had not yet been ruled out of the two-month World Cup starting in March.