Jersey will meet Nigeria in the third round of matches at World Cricket League 6 on Wednesday, in what will a top of the table battle between the last two unbeaten teams.

Nigeria hammered Kuwait by 111 runs and while Jersey also enjoyed a comfortable seven wickets win over Bahrain at Les Quennevais, the bowlers had to be rescued by their batsmen after another below-par performance.

Jersey bowled 22 wides and a no ball, costing 40 runs, as well as extending the Bahrain innings to 54 overs. Add on far too many misfields and Bahrain's final total of 245 for seven could have been reduced to 185. But, all was well in the end and the extra runs only gave the batsmen a stiffer test which they passed with flying colours.

Leading from the front was captain Peter Gough who, along with Ben Stevens, made up for their first day failures by scoring 169 runs. Gough scored exactly 100 from 122 balls with 10 fours and Stevens was unbeaten, with 12 boundaries to his name, when Jersey won with exactly six overs to spare.

Gough and Corey Bisson put on 105, the first century stand for the opening wicket in the tournament, with Bisson bringing up his 50 from 53 balls. He was out six runs later, driving straight to short extra but that let in Stevens, determined to make amends for his first ball duck on Monday.

A reverse sweep for four brought him his first boundary and he grew in confidence after that, all of which augers well for the rest of the week. With his captain, Stevens added 109 for the second wicket in just 16 overs, the last 42 from just 22 balls in the batting powerplay. That was ended when Gough drove tamely to short extra cover but not before he received a standing ovation from his team-mates, when he brought up his hundred with a glorious extra cover drive.

Ed Farley is the one batsmen still struggling for form - he was caught at mid-wicket for just one - but Andy Dewhurst, as he did against Kuwait in the opening game, saw the game to its conclusion.

There is plenty of work to do in the bowling and fielding departments before the Nigeria game. The first dropped catch came in only the fourth over when Adnan Butt was missed at long-off and the wides quickly mounted up. Before the end, the extras has passed 50, beaten to top score only by Muhammad Dar who hit a bright and breezy 60 off 65 balls with nine fours and a six.

He was sixth out in the 44th over with the total on 198 but with the help of some tired fielding, the last six overs yielded 47 runs with Qamar Saeed hitting three fours and a six in his unbeaten 28.

Corney Bodenstein and Tom Minty finished with identical figures of two for 53, exaggerated by four bundles of five wides. Paul Connelly, although wicketless, was probably the most consistently accurate bowler and ensured that Bahrain's total did not reach unmanageable proportions.

There was an unusual end to the Bahrain innings when captain Yasir Sadeq, who had to go to the middle to watch Saeed hit the last ball for six, came off to be handed a telephone where, before he had even left the field, had been told he had become a father for the third time, his first boy.

Meanwhile, the wait went on for what will be a rather more famous baby.