Skipper Gordon Campbell expressed his delight and amazement after Forties turned the tables on Spring Garden Cavaliers to lift their 16th Commercial Cricket League Knockout Cup title with a 27-run victory in the season’s finale.Cavaliers thrashed Forties by seven wickets in a low-scoring final last season and looked odds-on favourites to win again after dismissing Forties for a modest 130 inside 34 overs of their allotted 40, but in reply the league champions subsided to 103 all out in the 31st over, undone by the new-ball attack of Brian Holdipp and Robin Stovell, who picked up two wickets apiece, and third-change Guyle Pietersz, who completed the demolition by claiming the last five wickets.Earlier, medium-pacer Pietersz, a 33-year-old Sri Lankan, who has only been on the Island for four months, engineered a smart run-out from the covers to remove number three batsman Trevor Haynes for a duck.For Campbell and wicketkeeper Simon Jones, who took four catches, Sunday’s win at Shelly Bay represented a double triumph as they also featured in The Associates’ narrow victory over Fine Leg Byes the previous day in the Evening Cricket League’s Premier Division Twenty20 final at the same venue.Campbell, 60, who has led Forties since 1990 but is looking for a successor to take over the reins as captain next year to keep the league’s oldest club going for a 31st season, said: “In the annals of cricket upsets this must rank among the greatest.“Well, perhaps a little hyperbole, but not much.“As with almost all of our other matches over the years this was a hard-fought cliffhanger.“I’ve always enjoyed playing Spring Garden. We fight tooth and nail on the field but we have great camaraderie afterwards.”He added: “We knew we were up against a very strong team and, having lost our trio of sub-continental stalwarts in Yatin (Gawas), Saniru (Dushantha) and Kavi (Selvarajah), weknew we were up against it.“I am so grateful to our old guard of Allan Lee, Clevie Smith, Braxton Stowe and Brian Holdipp, who have come out of retirement for the umpteenth time to support us when we needed it,” added Campbell whose team also shared the Twenty20 League Cup with Jamaican Association earlier this month after the final ended in a tie.Cavaliers’ skipper Dave Greenidge said: “It was a fitting way to end the season. Despite the loss, it was a very exciting game. The season saw three different teams secure hardware and I extend congratulations to Forties and Jamaican Association.“I sincerely hope that this is not Doc Campbell’s last season and to ensure that it won’t, I have arranged a fundraiser to purchase a new pair of knees for him!“I also hope that the league will continue next year and we need to recruit at least two more teams (there are currently only four).President (Barry) Richards has started an off-season campaign, so hopefully it is successful.”Pinned down by tight bowling and a slow outfield after being sent in, Forties managed only two boundaries in their total, which was boosted by 31 extras, including 21 wides, and needed a fighting knock by number seven David DeSilva, last out for a 49-ball 33, to reach three figures, having shared a seventh-wicket stand of 35 with Johnny Simoes (12) as Rohan Henry (2-22), Freston Hurdle (2-23), Janaka Pereira (2-31) and Craig Brangman (2-33) grabbed the lion’s share of the wickets.Holdipp (2-28) made the breakthrough for Forties at 18, trapping opener Ricky Hill lbw for 12 playing across the line, and Stovell (2-6) plunged the league champions into deeper trouble as he removed the other opener, David Gibbons, for four and big-hittting Craig Smith for two when he snicked a catch to Jones before Haynes was run out and Craig Brangman was bowled by Holdipp.Ricardo Waldron and skipper Greenidge (12) led a recovery by adding 35 runs for the sixth wicket but Pietersz halted Cavaliers in their tracks, picking up 5-24 from 7.5 overs.Waldron went for 29 from 51 balls but Chris Clarke named man of the match for his half-century in PWC Byes’ 15-run win over Renegades in the Evening Cricket League’s Division Two final on Saturday gave Forties some anxious moments before he was last out 25 after adding 20 runs for the final wicket with Henry.Added Campbell: “Defending 130 against this classy batting line-up there was only one thing in our minds: wickets.“Brian Holdipp and Robin Stovell delivered and before long they were 34-5. For the rest of the game the bowling was accurate and the effort in the field was supreme. Guyle Pietersz blew them away with the last five wickets.“We were a little worried during their sixth-wicket partnership of 35 between Dave Greenidge and Ricky Waldron and then the 10th-wicket rearguard between Chris Clarke and Rohan Henry of 20 but Guyle just plugged away and was finally rewarded with a fine edge off Clarke to keeper Simon Jones.”He added: “In a season during which we have struggled to find a team every week this was altogether a surprising and gratifying ending.“As usual, it was a pleasure to have official umpires (Hector Watson and James McKirdy).”