reversal of fortune to bundle out Jamaican Association in the first round of the Commercial Cricket League's knockout competition on Sunday.

Forties were joined in this weekend's semifinals by holders Watford Sports Club, North Village and league champions Hemisphere Leg Trappers.

North Village trounced Public Transportation Board by eight wickets while Watford and Leg Trappers both advanced without bowling a ball.

It was the third week in a row that Watford won a match by default and the second time in a fortnight that St. David's failed to field a team against the west enders.

Not a single St. David's player turned up for the recent league match at Royal Naval field and only three players showed up at Spice Valley Middle School on Sunday.

Fumed Watford skipper Terry Corday, who drove straight to the game after flying in from an overseas trip: "Something has got to be done about this next season. My guys are fed up not getting any cricket week after week.'' Leg Trappers, who take on Forties at Sea Breeze Oval on Sunday, advanced when struggling West End Warriors pulled out of the competition last Thursday. The other semifinal, between North Village and Watford, will be played at Garrison field.

Although they have won the knockout a record 10 times, Forties started underdogs against league runners-up Jamaican Association, who were cock-a-hoop before Sunday's game at Sea Breeze Oval.

The good-natured "39ers'' taunts followed a recent match at National Sports Club where the Jamaicans skittled out their rivals, who had a modest league season, for a paltry 39. But Forties had the last laugh on Sunday after man-of-the-match Hugh Hollis helped spin them to a deserved four-wicket victory.

The Jamaicans, last season's beaten finalists, were given a flying start by skipper Norman Godwin (28) and Chris Cox (20) after being sent in, rattling up 51 runs in the first 10 overs.

But slow bowlers Hollis and Alan Lamb (one for 21 in eight overs) stemmed the flow of runs and Hollis turned the game on its head by removing both openers on his way to a five-for-27, eight-over haul as the Jamaicans crumbled from 91 for two to 127 all out in 30.3 overs.

Teenager Trenton Tankard stood firm with an unbeaten 18 at number seven but Brian Holdipp, a new barrister just admitted to the Bermuda Bar, laid down the law with three late wickets while Craig Cannonier, in his first game since suffering a serious leg injury against Leg Trappers in late June, returned for a second spell to bowl danger man David Gibbs for six.

Gibbs and Michael Campbell pinned Forties' openers down and Junior Lindo struck the first blow when he bowled Hollis for five but skipper Gordon Campbell and Rohaan Simons lifted the total to 58 in the 18th over before Errol Wray, atoning for a duck on his 31st birthday, struck twice in successive overs before finishing with two for 30. First Simons holed out to long on for 25 (five fours) and two runs later Campbell was caught behind off his glove for 18. Lamb (11) and Andrew Paynter, who hit the only six of the match in his 16, added 31 for the fourth wicket before Lamb was caught in the deep and Paynter was yorked by Gibbs.

A brilliant, one-handed return catch by Campbell sent back Gerald Simons (10) at 104 but Cannonier, who blasted five fours -- three of them in Godwin's only over -- in an unbeaten 20, and David Hyland (seven not out) steered Forties home in the 34th over.

Public Transportation Board elected to bat after skipper Dennis Robinson won the toss at Garrison field but it was a decision he soon regretted as man-of-the-match Dion Ball, the Village skipper, captured five for seven in four overs, and Derek Bell two for six to send the bus drivers, with six ducks, tumbling from 52 to four to 70 all out in 18 overs. Brian Brangman top-scored with 23 while Wally Manders made 18.

North Village soccer coach Kenny Thompson, who hit an unbeaten 39, and Mike Young (16) added 43 for the first wicket to lay the foundation for an easy win, 10-man Village reaching 71 for two in the 12th over. "We were humilated,'' said Robinson. "I have never felt so embarrassed in my entire life.''