WI local: Rain rules out fire cup

The Barbados Fire & Commercial Cup One-Day cricket competition has been hit by another delay. Heavy rains yesterday meant there was no play in the three scheduled matches: two quarter-finals and one preliminary match.

The quarter-finals - between ICB Empire and Caribbean Lumber YMPC, and United Carlton and Mount Gay Maple - will be rescheduled once there is a wash-out, according to competition rules.

However, the preliminary match between BNB St. Catherine and Cockspur Wanderers, which the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) ordered to be replayed after errors in the calculations of overs in the original result, may also be replayed.

On October 8 Wanderers won, but the BCA upheld a St. Catherine protest.

The board of the BCA is due to meet today concerning yesterday's washout and the result of the meeting will be made available by tomorrow.

Nationsport is reliably informed that by ordering "a replay", the match must be played to get a result and points.

St. Catherine have six points and Wanderers two, behind Zone B leaders ESA Field Pickwick on ten. A win would take St. Catherine to ten points and it would require calculations to determine the zone winner.

If Wanderers were to win the "replay" it would bring them to six points, level with St. Catherine, and the calculators would again be required to decide the second-place side to advance to the quarterfinals.

The other teams already in the quarter-finals are Cable & Wireless BET and Big B Spartan, awaiting the outcome of Zone B.