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Bermuda coach Gus Logie has warned his players they cannot afford to treat this weekend's double-header against Uganda as a 'warm-up' match.

Officially, that's exactly what it is.

But Logie knows that the two 50-over games against the Africans on Sunday and Tuesday, represent his team's best chance of their first victories since their last visit to the continent in January.

And he is determined that complacency does not stop his men from grabbing a much-needed win.

Logie, who put the players through their first training session since arriving in Nairobi yesterday morning, said: "No game for us is a practice game. We have to go into them very seriously and be as business like as possible, execute the game plans and put scores on the board individually and collectively."

Kenya's pitches tend to favour the batsmen and Logie, who has bitter memories of putting 280 on the board and losing against Ireland in Nairobi in January, believes his side need to be looking for a total of around 300.

"It's no secret the pitches here are good to bat on. When you look at our line-up this time, the middle order seems to be pretty strong."

David Hemp, who arrives in Nairobi tomorrow after a delayed flight from England, Janeiro Tucker, Lionel Cann and skipper Irving Romaine will be relied upon to carry the brunt of the burden with Cardiff college players Jekon Edness and Stephen Outerbridge likely to open.

On pitches that will take a bit of turn, Dwayne Leverock, is once again expected to be Bermuda's biggest weapon with the ball.

"He's hungry, keen to keep going and he'll be a trump card for us in theses games.

"His batting has improved and he considers himself a front-line batsman now, but I'd rather he took four wickets than scored 40 runs."

Youngster Kian Butterfield is Bermuda's only injury concern, after spraining his ankle coming down the hotel steps and Logie intends to make full use of his 15-man squad over the two games.

"We want to give all the batsmen an opportunity to play. Hopefully a few of them can get good knocks and we can get as much confidence as possible ahead of the Kenya games."

Kenya, who beat Canada in a one-day-international in Nairobi yesterday, are up next at the end of the week.

But Logie is encouraging his players to focus on the challenge of the Ugandans first.

"Cricket is a funny game. Just because we beat this team a year ago, doesn't mean we are going to beat them this time.

"They are improving their cricket too. I think we have enough firepower and enough experience to see us over the line but the game is played on the pitch, not on paper."[[In-content Ad]]

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