Nigeria were left regretting the arrival of the rain as they looked poised to beat Argentina at Grainville.

The Nigerians dismissed Argentina for 144 in 46.3 overs, captain Kunle Adegbola picking up 3-24 in his 10 overs and Osita Onwuzilike taking his first wickets of the tournament in returning 3-23 from his 10. Gary Savage top-scored for Argentina with 40 from 97 balls, including four boundaries.

In reply, Nigeria reached 26-1 in 6 overs, seemingly well set for a successful run-chase, but they will have to instead come back and try again tomorrow.

In the bottom-of-the-table clash, Bahrain made 238-9 in 50 overs batting first against Kuwait, Imran Ghulam top-scoring (57 off 36 balls, five 4s, three 6s) and Anil Hanif (39 from 67 balls, five 4s) and Adnan Butt (31 from 24 balls, five 4s, one 6) also making significant cotnributions.

Azmatullah Nazeer was Kuwait's stand-out performer with the ball, bowling five maidens in a spell of 10 overs that went for 14 runs and included three wickets.

The tournament table remains unchanged following today's action, meaning that all four of Jersey, Vanuatu, Nigeria and Argentina still harbour hopes of promotion if results go their way tomorrow.