Guernsey returned to the same ground, the Royal Selangor Club that saw their first day collapse; chose to bat first on same pitch; and again failed to post enough runs to turn around their fortunes against a more experienced Nigerian side, also searching for their first win.

Both the pitch and outfield at the Royal Selangor Club ground showed signs of the football that gets played on it, and whose lines criss-cross the surface. The surface of both is slow, slightly uneven, the wicket offering neither bounce nor pace, with even the tall Nigerian opening bowlers regularly seeing balls pass the wicket below knee height.

Guernsey's openers showed good patience, adding 63 off the first 20 overs before Damarell was bowled by the spin of Ofem. His partner, Lucas Barker, continued on to 45, working the ball around before also succumbing to a rank full-toss by Ofem that he skied to mid wicket.

James Gale made a fluent 23 full of late-cuts, but he fell 7 overs later. Guernsey was well placed to make a challenging score, at 3/115 off 32 overs, but the difficulty of coming in on a pitch offering no pace, and a reluctance to hit over the top, meant that they crawled through the latter overs to end on 192.

Saheed Akolade was the pick of the Nigerian bowlers, taking 3-29 off a long and rapid shuffling run, and generating good pace to cartwheel the stumps of the lower order.

After keeping the Cayman Islands to 140 on the same pitch yesterday, the Guernsey players felt the score was sufficient. They were dealt an early blow however, when experienced opener Savident injured his back after three overs and left the field. With Stokes a little wayward and the bowling generally a little short, Nigeria were rewarded with boundaries, even as they struggled to turn over the strike.

Wickets fell irregularly for the first 20 overs, but Nigeria kept pace with the target. The crucial partnership came when Olatunji joined Adegbola for the fifth wicket. While the latter struggled to score, finishing with only 20 off 72 balls with no boundaries, Olatunji hit over the top, making 40 at nearly a run a ball.

Guernsey's most incisive bowler on the day, Nussbaumer, repeatedly brought himself back on to rally his side, removing Onatunji in the 34th over and Onwuzulike in the 46th, but his figures of 3-26 were not decisive.

While the required run-rate never differed, Nigeria still threatened to implode. Immediately after Bejide hit the first of his two sixes, Adegbola tried the same tactic and was caught. With singles sufficient, there was no need for the ugly swipes that underlay most of the Nigerian wickets to fall; yet, in the end, their more aggressive approach worked where Guernsey failed to score heavily when they needed to earlier in the day.

Down to the ninth wicket, Nigeria still needed five runs off the final over. Faced with a choice between the more expensive medium-pace of Stokes or the off spin off Le Tissier playing his first game for Guernsey, Nussbaumer chose Stokes. Bejide gambled again, and the first ball disappeared over mid-wicket for his second six, clinching the victory.

Guernsey, win-less and yet to face either Malaysia or Jersey, will need to use the rest day to recover if they are to avoid relegation back to division six. Nigeria will face their fellow single victor, the Cayman Islands, in a match that will determine whether they'll be fighting for promotion or to avoid relegation on the final two match-days.