Bermuda will face a potentially tricky encounter against an unfamiliar Uganda side in a specially arranged warm-up game before next month’s World Cricket League tournament in Nairobi, Kenya.

Uganda, an emerging Associate member country made up of a mix of expatriates and locals, were thrashed 3-0 by Kenya in a recent one-day series in the Ugandan capital Kampala.

But given Bermuda’s recent struggles against the Kenyans on their tour of the country in November, where they too lost three consecutive ODIs, Gus Logie’s men could be in for an appropriately stiff test ahead of what is being billed as the most important tournament the team have been involved in since qualifying for the the World Cup at the 2005 ICC Trophy in Ireland.

Bermuda depart for Nairobi on January 24 for games against the top five Associate member countries, the results of which will arguably give the clearest indication yet of how far Bermuda have progressed since that famous day on the Emerald Isle and what short-term affect the $11 million Government investment has had on the team.

The team travel first to Trinidad on January 8 for an 11-day training camp in the familiar surroundings of the Frank Worrell Cricket Academy in Couva — about an hour’s drive from Port of Spain — where they are once again expected to play a couple of games against local club sides.

The selectors have already named a 19-man squad for this upcoming trip, which they will trim to 15 soon after for the tour to Nairobi.

The final World Cup squad will not be unveiled until just prior to the deadline set by the International Cricket Council of February 11, with the selectors keeping their options open while still assessing form and waiting for various fitness and injury reports to be handed in to the Bermuda Cricket Board.

However, Irving Romaine has already been confirmed as captain and Dean Minors as vice-captain.

World Cricket League

Division One

Schedule

(all games in Nairobi)

28 January — Bermuda v Uganda (warm-up>

30 January — Canada v Netherlands, Kenya v Bermuda, Scotland v IrelanB>

31 January — Canada v Scotland, Bermu<$>v Ireland, Kenya v Netherlands

2 February — Kenya v Ireland, Netherlands v Scotland, Canad Bermuda

4 February — Netherlands v Beda<$>, Ireland v Canada, Kenya v Scotland

5 February — Scotl v Bermuda, Kenya v Canada, Ireland v Netherlands

7 February — Final