Heavy weekend downpours have thrown the final round of local cricket?s Two-Day League fixtures up in the air with players, club officials and fans left confused as to how the season will now end.

After several matches were washed out, including the Premier Division championship clash at Wellington Oval involving St.George?s and St.David?s, Bermuda Cricket Board?s technical committee will now hold a special meeting tomorrow to decide what course of action to take.

?The regulations do state what to do in a play-off but we are going to hold an executive meeting on Tuesday to look at the balance of the schedule for the rest of the year,? stated BCB treasurer Neil Speight yesterday.

?There are some recommendations there and I think the intent of two-day cricket was for it not to be decided in a 30-over slugfest and so the executive will consider rescheduling the important games.?

Board president Reggie Pearman also agreed the show must go on.

?Once we receive reports on these matches then we will decide where to go from there because championships have to be decided from these matches,? he told yesterday.

According to existing Two-Day regulations: ?If the match commences on the second day ? which was the case over the weekend as Saturday?s play was totally washed out ? the first innings of each team will automatically be forfeited and the match will commence with the second innings. Each team shall face a maximum of 60 overs. Play will commence 30 minutes earlier on day two to ensure extra eight overs can be played. Overs in day two will be 120. Overs not used by team one will be added to the maximum number of overs team two faces.

?In the case of a match being abandoned without a ball being bowled, the teams will participate in a bowl-off. The captains shall nominate five bowlers in the order of bowling to each other and the umpires prior to the toss. A full set of stumps including bails will be pitched at both ends of the designated pitch but the bowlers will all bowl from the same end.?

However, neither Pearman nor Speight were prepared to comment as to why standard protocol pertaining to rain-affected two-day matches was not adhered to as the rules of the competition were clearly outlined in Board regulations.

Meanwhile, the Premier Division contest involving Western Stars and Bailey?s Bay was postponed due to the unavailability of a pitch after it was discovered Sea Breeze Oval, the original venue, was due to host a Junior Eastern Counties match on Saturday.

In the only Premier Division match which did get completed, Southampton defeated Willow Cuts by 12 runs at Somerset Cricket Club to lay claim to third place honours in the standings.

Batting first, Southampton could only muster 133 runs with skipper Janeiro Tucker top scoring with 33, Kwame Tucker 30 and Rohaan Simons 18 as the visitors were dismissed for a paltry total in exactly 38 overs.

Bergon Spencer led the Cuts attack with three for 39 while Charles Swan and Rodney Fubler claimed two wickets apiece.

In reply, Cuts were 83 without loss and only 50 runs adrift of Southampton?s total when disaster struck with the next nine batsmen all falling in the space of 37 runs in only 19.4 overs with Gary Crofton (six for 30) and regular wicketkeeper Kwame Tucker (four for 21) accounting for all the wickets to fall.

At Lord?s, Social Club player/coach Charlie Marshall was perhaps the happiest cricketer in Bermuda after his team achieved the double, adding the First Division Two-Day league championship to their limited overs title following a hard-fought two-wicket triumph over Flatts.