Watford Sports Club remained on course to complete a hat-trick of Commercial Cricket League Knockout titles when they registered a four-wicket semi-final win over old rivals Forties to reach a remarkable seventh successive final.

Their opponents in this Sunday's 40-overs-a-side showdown at Sea Breeze Oval, where Watford have won the last two finals, will be league champions Hemisphere Leg Trappers, who coasted to a six-wicket victory over Jamaican Association in last weekend's other semi-final.

Troy Berkeley, who helped Watford thrash Forties by seven wickets in last season's final with a swashbuckling unbeaten 75, was again their chief tormentor on Sunday when he lashed 10 boundaries in a half century that swung the match irrevocably the west enders' way after a shaky start.

Leg Trappers' hero at Sea Breeze Oval was Damion Henderson, an occasional leg-break bowler who snapped up four wickets and then stroked an unbeaten half century to ease his side home with 16 overs to spare.

Three run-outs and several dropped catches ruined Forties' chances of turning the tables on Watford at the Royal Naval Field after they had been sent in.

Forties, league runners-up this season and 10 times winners of the Knockout, suffered a setback when veteran George Rock swooped on a ball at square leg and hit the stumps at the bowler's end to run out skipper Gordon Campbell for 11.

Gladwin Ingham (16) was also run out in a terrible mix-up with Alan Lamb, who responded by hitting two sixes in Ray DeSilva's fifth over that went for 26 -- including five wides -- to lift Forties to 96 for for three from 20 overs.

But left-arm medium pacer David DeSilva (two for 34) dealt two major blows by having Harold Minors caught at mid-off and bowling Lamb in the same over to rip the heart out of the batting.

Gerald Simons (14) led a revival but he became the third run-out victim when skipper Terry Corday hit the stumps with a direct throw from gully. The tail wagged as Forties -- helped by 35 extras, including 28 wides -- were dismissed for 150 in 37 overs. Rock finished with two for 20 and Blake West two for 31.

Watford, who beat Jamaican Association in the 1997 final and have won the tournament four times in all, suffered a major reverse when David Jarrett bowled leading batsman Terry Ward for a duck.

Fellow opener Andrew Paynter, who played for Forties in last season's final, was run out for 12 and Michael Corday (24) fell to a brilliant diving catch by Ingham.

David DeSilva also went cheaply as Watford slipped to 52 for four after an hour but Berkeley, who smashed six fours and four sixes in his 56, teamed up with Terence Corday (34) to wrest the initiative away from Forties with a match-winning fifth-wicket stand of 85 after Corday was dropped before he had scored.

Leg-break bowler Oscar Andrade, introduced into the attack late, removed Berkeley and Corday with two for 10 from 1.5 overs, but Watford completed the victory with more than seven overs remaining.

Skipper Ian Coke, batting at number four, topscored with 47 but Jamaican Association, after being sent in and reaching a promising 86 for three, tumbled to 115 all out in the 30th over as Henderson's five overs of spin earned him four for 19, well supported by Graham Strange (three for 18) and Rodddy Moore (two for 21), who is unavailable for the final.

Henderson, who came in at the fall of the first wicket when Jeremy Franklin was trapped lbw for five, took charge, adding 24 for the second wicket with Gary Knight (28).

Although free-scoring Strange was bowled by Ramotar (two for 21) for nine, Henderson secured Leg Trappers' first berth in a Knockout final by guiding them home with an unbeaten 53 punctuated by six fours and a six.

Captain Eddie Lamb slammed a record-breaking 128 to lead the Officers Mess to an easy 153-run victory over Warrant Officers in the Bermuda Regiment's annual cricket match at Southampton Oval on Saturday. Scores: Officers Mess 308, Warrant Officers 153.

During a run feast dominated by Lamb, new staff officer Rupert Lucas contributed a well played 70 while David Gibbons struck 18 not out.

Top bowler for Warrant Officers was Roderick Masters with four for 46.

Warrant Officers' leading batsmen were Quinton Francis with 31 and Herman Eve with 29.

Lamb rounded off a fine all-round performance by taking three for 29 while Lucas returned two for 29 and Smith two for 46.

The victory saw Officers Mess increase their eight year record to seven wins and just one loss.