Two all-rounders ? a prison officer and an emerging 16-year-old ? stole the Commercial Cricket League honours while Forties returned to the top of the table after completing the double over eight-man West Indian Association.

Craig Smith and Machai Campbell enjoyed contrasting fortunes, however, as Smith helped Fine Leg Byes to a three-wicket win over title-chasing Hamilton Parish while Campbell?s efforts proved in vain as nine-man Western Stars slumped to their ninth successive defeat, losing to Jamaican Association by 53 runs at St. John?s Field.

Campbell, whose younger brothers Seth and Swayne and father Wayne are part of the St. John?s Road team?s set-up, claimed six for 49 from 17 uninterrupted overs of medium pace and then stroked four boundaries in an unbeaten 38 in Stars? 115.

Prison officer Smith, who bowls right-handed and bats left, undermined Parish with figures of seven for 42 from 14.1 overs of medium pace, helping to dismiss them for 130 in the 26th over at Shelly Bay, and then rode his luck as he struck two fours and two sixes in an unbeaten 42 to guide FLB to victory and avenge a 55-run defeat in the earlier meeting at the same venue in May.

Campbell?s six-wicket haul, coupled with Derek Wellman?s two for 38 from five overs, helped dismiss JA for 168 in the 35th over with the major contributions coming from Keniek Wallen (33), Ian Coke jr (31), skipper Junior Lindo (25) and newcomer Shawlan Morrison (21).

The task was beyond Stars, despite having 49 overs at their disposal, and they were finally all out in the 42nd over for 115 despite the efforts of Machai and his father Wayne, who made 36.

Lindo was the pick of the JA attack with four for seven in eight overs.

Skipper Chris Smith, who was left to take the reins after Cup Match player Allan Brangman turned out only once this season, sang Machai?s praises, saying: ?He?s a very good player and you?ll hear a lot more about him before long.

?We put up a pretty good fight. We?re still struggling to put out a full team each week but we have potential and I?m hoping we?ll improve. The club has so many former ?greats? and I hoping they?ll come out and play.?

JA?s manager/scorer Glenmore Barrett was impressed by Stars, saying: ?We should have got 200 or more but the youngsters put up a good fight ? they weren?t pushovers.?

Skipper Irving Burgess provided the backbone of the Parish innings, scoring 57.

With Curtis Lee taking three for 29 and Neil Robinson two for 36, Parish had FLB had on the ropes at seven down but Smith, who survived a vigorous appeal for a stumping with 51 runs required, and Janaka Perrera (20 not out) teamed up to steer FLB to 133 for seven in the 36th over with an unbroken half-century stand.

Parish took three excellent catches but also dropped three, including two costly ones off Smith. But it was the stumping appeal rejected by umpire Angus Lynn that angered a number of Parish players who let fly with a volley of abuse.

Vacations, injuries and the call-up of detectives to investigate the Ord Road murder of a teenager left WIA three short at Garrison Field where Forties completed a five-wicket victory in the 18th over after dismissing their opponents for 104 in the 28th over.

Courtney Weekes, who punished the bad balls in walloping eight fours and a six in his 50, and Stan Francis, who struck three successive sixes off David DeSilva in his 24, helped WIA race to 95 for six from 20 overs before Deputy Governor Nick Carter (whose eight not out were all singles) and Clevon Cunningham (two) held out for a further 8.5 overs.

DeSilva claimed three for 30 in seven overs, accounting for Francis, who perished to the next ball following his three sixes, and Weekes, who fell to a stunning diving catch by Braxton Stowe off the wicketkeeper?s pads.

Skipper Gordon Campbell, who took two for 29 from nine overs, said Forties owed their victory to ?our youth explosion?, with 24-year-old Yatin Gawas making 21, 19-year-old national team footballer Logan Alexander, 26, and David Campbell, who is also 19, chipping in with an unbeaten 15, the trio smashing ten boundaries between them.

Francis was WIA?s most successful bowler with three for 27 from nine overs while former Bailey?s Bay pace bowler took one wicket but his five overs went for 40 runs.

Fast bowler Adrian King, a former Cup Match star who came to Bermuda from the Caribbean island of Canouan in the late 1970s, was in the WIA team ? but there was no chance to see how quick he is these days as he couldn?t bowl because of an injured shoulder.

The victory lifted Forties to 70 points, five ahead of North Village, who had the day off.