Sports Club to an emphatic seven-wicket win over old rivals Forties in Sunday's final of the Commercial Cricket League knockout at Sea Breeze Oval.

Berkeley's belligerence, coupled with David DeSilva's earlier telling five-wicket burst which scythed through Forties' top order, enabled Watford to retain the trophy with embarrassing ease after the match had appeared evenly balanced with 20 overs left.

Watford were 68 for two at the break -- Forties were 90 for four at the same stage -- but they required only a further 56 balls to reach the winning target of 165 as man-of-the-match Berkeley, who had been pushed up the order to boost the run rate, cut loose with a barrage of boundaries.

Berkeley, who hit two centuries during the league season, hammered eight sixes and three fours in his swashbuckling 58-minute innings, adding 106 for the third wicket with Michael Corday (36), a partnership which carried Watford to the brink of victory.

The win gave Watford -- appearing in the final for a remarkable sixth successive season -- their fourth knockout title and their second triumph over 10 times winners Forties, who sorely missed their show-bound inspirational captain Gordon Campbell, in the past five seasons.

"I was getting a little concerned about our run rate so I moved Troy up the order to push the score along. He did a great job, batting like he has all season,'' said a jubilant Watford skipper Terry Corday after receiving the trophy from league president Al Seymour.

Forties, who reached the final with convincing victories over league runners-up Jamaican Association -- last season's losing knockout finalists -- and league champions Hemisphere Leg Trappers, were given another flying start by openers Harold Minors and Hugh Hollis after being sent in.

Minors plundered three fours in the second over bowled by teenager Trevor Corday and the opening pair raced to 64 runs from 11 overs but the introduction of slow left-arm bowler DeSilva, who also took five wickets in Watford's semi-final win over North Village, plunged Forties into immediate trouble.

Minors played on to DeSilva's second ball -- he struck five fours and a six in his 32 -- and in his third over DeSilva trapped Mark Melvin lbw for one. A run later Hollis was bowled for 23 by Ray DeSilva.

DeSilva struck again in his fifth, seventh and eight overs to finish with five for 23, removing Andrew Paynter (6), acting skipper Alan Lamb (19) and Gerald Simons (1) as Forties slipped to 129 for six.

Craig Cannonier revived Forties' fortunes with a stand of 30 with David Hyland (seven not out) but when top scorer Cannonier fell to a smart one-handed return catch by Blake West for 34, the tail folded tamely in the 37th over with extras -- 23 of them wides -- accounting for 41 of the runs. West finished with three for 13.

In reply, David DeSilva and teenager Ian Armstrong gave Watford a fine start with an opening stand of 46 -- broken when DeSilva miscued Hollis to Paynter at mid-on for 24 -- and nine runs later Lamb trapped Armstrong lbw for 20.

Berkeley tilted the match irrevocably Watford's way right after the water break, rifling 15 runs off Oscar Andrade in the 21st over and then slamming Hollis, who had taken one for 16 in his first five overs, for 16 more in the next.

Forties missed the bowling of Campbell, who was forced out of the final because of a full dress rehearsal for the current Gilbert & Sullivan Society show Les Miserables , in which he is appearing, and, although Lamb switched his bowlers around, there was no stopping Berkeley as he and Corday took command.

Cannonier returned to trap Corday lbw -- the batsman's first 18 runs came in singles -- but by then the west enders were only four runs short of victory.

Berkeley, who survived a confident appeal by wicketkeeper Minors for a stumping early in his innings, enjoyed a slice of luck in the 30th over when he was bowled by Brian Holdipp.

But it was called a no-ball and, to add insult to injury, Berkeley then edged the next delivery for four to win the match.