Rain was the only winner on the fifth day of World Cricket League 6 with the three games all abandoned as no results.

The rain arrived at Farmers Field when the post-lunch session was due to begin and had not stopped when umpires called off play in the game between hosts Jersey and Vanuatu two hours later. The game, like the other two, will be played again tomorrow and the scheduled play-off games will not take place, the final rankings to be decided by the group placings.

It means Jersey must wait one more day to confirm their place at the top of the table but there was nothing in yesterday's abbreviated play to indicate that it will be the only weather which will stop them making it a clean sweep of victories this week.

For the fifth successive game, Jersey were able to bowl first - the opposition captain called wrongly for the fourth time - and despite a positive start which saw Vanuatu put on 52 for the first wicket, they lost both openers to successive deliveries and although they recovered to 93 for three, those 41 runs had taken 17 overs.

Once the partnership between their two best batsmen, captain Andrew Mansale and Nalin Nipiko was ended by Ben Stevens, the last seven wickets fell for 42 runs. Stevens, who has been Jersey's man of the match in the last two games, finished with four for 22 and on course to win another, but the rain came before he had a chance to bat.

With Vanuatu bowled out 45 minutes before lunch, Peter Gough and Corey Bisson had to face nine overs before the interval and the ease with which they scored 27 augers well for Sunday, the south Pacific islanders having already shown off four of their bowlers.

Paul Connelly and Corney Bodenstein, as usual opened the bowling for Jersey but it was not until Tom Minty, back in the side after being rested on Thursday, that they made the breakthrough. Indeed the gentle medium pacer, but getting tremendous movement off the pitch, claimed the wickets of the top three, the first to a finely judged overhead catch by Andy Dewhurst at cover. Minty's final figures were three for 20 and although Stevens had one wicket more, it was the former who was the pick of the attack.

To be fair, Stevens could have had a five-for, he had Trevor Langa dropped first ball at slip, and not for the first time this week, the tail-enders just had no answer to him. The openers came back to join the wicket-takers and Luke Gallichan finished the innings in the 45th over when Patrick Matuataava pulled him straight to deep mid-wicket.

A tame end to a disappointing innings but there will be no complaints from Jersey if the same happens again tomorrow with a trip to Malaysia as the prize.