Last matches scrapped
Commercial Cricket League organisers have scrapped this Sunday’s scheduled last league match of the season and will head straight into the final two competitions.League champions Spring Garden Cavaliers, who wrapped up the title for the second season in a row with two matches to spare, and North Village agreed to call off the game and share the points.Rain washed out both of last Sunday’s matches, Forties against North Village at Garrison Field and Cavaliers against Jamaican Association at Shelly Bay.Cavaliers and Jamaican Association were due to vie for their annual Caribbean Cup, which has not been rescheduled.“No cricket, but we ate plenty of curried goat,” said league president Barry Richards, who has turned out occasionally for Cavaliers since taking over the presidency from Armell Thomas earlier this year.Cavaliers finished the league season on 84 points, 24 ahead of Forties, who were two points clear of Village and Jamaican Association.Cancellation of the final league match paves the way for the second Twenty20 League Cup semi-final and final to be staged at Shelly Bay a week earlier than scheduled.Sunday’s semi-final pits Village against Forties at 12.30pm with the winners going on to face Jamaican Association in the final at 3.30pm.The Jamaicans reached the final in June by beating Devonshire Stars, who later withdrew from the league, in a preliminary round game and Spring Garden Cavaliers in the first semi-final, ending Cavaliers’ hopes of repeating their clean sweep of the league’s four main trophies last season.Yesterday’s draw for the knockout semi-finals to be played on September 2 sees Village taking on Cavaliers at Shelly Bay and Forties playing Jamaican Association at Garrison Field.The final is set for September 9.