Bermuda 193-7 Jamaica 7-0 Bermuda's last chance for glory at the Red Stripe Bowl limited overs tournament died a wet death when their quarter-final with hosts Jamaica was washed out at Melbourne Cricket Club on Saturday.

As Jamaica defeated Bermuda in the group stage of the competition they moved into the semi-finals, which will be held here next weekend.

A similar scenario unfolded in the Trinidad & Tobago v Windward Islands quarter-final at Chedwin Park in St. Catherine where not one ball was delivered due to an unfit outfield. So Brian Lara's men, with a victory over the Windwards in earlier play, are now within two results of successfully defending their title.

For Bermuda, though, there was a silver lining and an achievement of precedence as Clay Smith became the first player to score two unbeaten centuries in the competition.

Smith stroked an unbeaten 101 on Saturday and, though he gave two chances before reaching double figures, there was no denying his quality at the end of the day.

"Coming into this tournament my main goal was to average over 40,'' said Smith before umpires Steve Bucknor and Basil Morgan called a premature end to the day at 3.30 p.m. local time. "I felt if I could do that it would show some sort of consistency. To get two hundreds not out, it's a feat in itself.

It definitely wasn't expected.

"Early on it was tough with (Franklyn) Rose and (Patrick) Patterson doing a lot with the ball but I knew that once Albert got out the runs had to come from my bat.'' Jamaica only faced four balls from Gregg Foggo before rain that always looked to be heading off the mountains to the island's north coast came and spoiled a good day.

Earlier, on the heels of a team-best opening stand of 46 against Jamaica in the previous match at Alpart, St. Elizabeth, Bermuda were off to a dreadful start on Saturday.

Albert Steede was out without scoring to the second ball of the match when he gave a simple return catch to Rose, who still looked as if he had not loosened up.

On perhaps the fastest track Bermuda have had to bat on, Rose was slow the first two balls and it was on the latter that Steede was ahead of himself and nevertheless noncommittal to put the team on the back foot.

Donald Norford and Smith toiled on for seven further overs at which time Norford was run out, anxiously looking to get off the mark after 19 balls faced in 31 minutes in the middle.

It was a run he took with will while batting with Steede in the previous match, but on this occasion Smith failed to respond and Norford was just beaten by Nehemiah Perry's throw to the `keeper having ventured almost half the pitch. Smith was clearly at fault here and he would later on claim another run out victim in the midst of a 21-ball spell when he was stranded on 49.

But, all said, the 27-year-old more than made up for his indiscretions running between the wicket. He scored freely through the on side mostly and picked the Cow's Corner (deep mid-wicket) for boundaries with regularity.

And with this being his second century at Melbourne CC, Smith had quite a following.

Bermuda's third wicket fell at 35 in the 13th over when Anthony Amory (0) was adjudged to have got a nick to a rising delivery from Jamaica captain Courtney Walsh.

Rain ruins Smith's day From Page 23 Still, all the runs from the bat had come from Smith.

It was not until the first ball of the 20th over, when Bermuda skipper Arnold Manders guided a delivery from Laurie Williams to third man, that a player other than Smith had troubled the scorers.

It took Manders 17 balls to get going but once he did, the burly 38-year-old senior statesman looked the part; especially against off-spinner Perry.

After 23 overs Bermuda were crawling along at 52 for three, but in the 27th both batsmen hit sixes off Perry in a 15-run blitz that helped the team to 77.

Manders' run out for 20 -- he hit a six and a four from 49 balls in 67 minutes -- was unfortunate, and came with the score 82 in the 31st over.

Smith was joined by Janeiro Tucker (two) and soon after brought up his half-century with a pre-determined paddle to fine leg off Perry.

Once past that milestone, Smith's efficiency at this level shone through. It had taken 115 balls and was adorned by a six and seven fours.

The next fifty was virtually effortless. And it was in no small part due to the efforts of number eight Irving Romaine that Jamaica did not only have Smith with whom to be concerned.

The start was nothing to write home about but from the sixth ball Romaine faced from left-arm spinner Jimmy Adams, the stocky right-hander clearly looked the part. That delivery sailed, against the wind, well over the wall at long-on and he followed up with an another straight hit six off pacer Rose and a square cut boundary off Walsh in an important knock of 25.

Meanwhile, Smith was inching his way to another ton and he waited until the final over, while partnered with Lionel Cann.

The pair smashed Rose for 18 runs in the penultimate over, marked by Cann's petulance of tapping down the area of the Test bowler's follow-through after hitting him for six over backward square leg.

Not to be ignored in the festivities, Cann again warranted attention in the final over when he bundled over Adams at the bowler's end on completing a quick single to get Smith now 97 -- on strike.

Smith quickly picked up two with a push through short mid-wicket and two balls later flicked to fine leg for a well-deserved century. He had faced 168 balls and struck three sixes and 11 fours.

Finally, after a week and a half in Jamaica, Bermuda felt they were in with a chance. It was not an imposing total by any stretch of the imagination but given the recent frailties of the Jamaica line-up -- Adams clearly was still not recovered from his ankle injury -- Bermuda's ambitions were not unrealistic.

"It was unfortunate because the guys had mentally given themselves up to work and put the 100 percent effort in,'' said Smith after the match was called.

"One game we batted well, one game we bowled well and today we were hoping that it would all come together.''