Somerset Bridge have been penalised for not having their wicket at White Hill Field covered for last Sunday’s Twenty20 match against Somerset Cricket Club.

The ten points have been awarded to Somerset Cricket Club, while five points each were awarded to Devonshire Recreation Club and PHC after their opening match was rained out.

Rain saturated the uncovered wicket, forcing the two First Division matches to be called off.

The Bermuda Cricket Board committee ruled this week that Somerset Cricket Club be awarded the points, which ends Somerset Bridge’s hopes of reaching Sunday’s semi-finals.

Somerset Cricket Club and St George’s, who meet tomorrow at Somerset in the final group match, are already now assured of semi-final places and will be playing to decide who tops the group.

The five points awarded to PHC gives them a spot in the semi-final after their opening win over Flatts, which now leaves Devonshire Recreation Club and Flatts to battle for the other spot when they meet in the first match at Somerset tomorrow.

St David’s and Somerset, the venues for tomorrow’s final group matches, will also host the semi-finals on Sunday.

In the Premier Division T20 on Saturday, Southampton Rangers and Cleveland County will meet at 11am at Lord’s, with both teams already through to the semi-finals after both defeated Western Stars in group matches.

St David’s and Willow Cuts will battle in the second match at Lord’s to determine who joins Bailey’s Bay, the cup holders, in the semi-finals after they won both their group matches.

Sunday’s first semi-final will pit Bailey’s Bay against the losers of Rangers and Cleveland at 11am at Lord’s in what will either be the first of two meetings between the two teams in May at Lord’s or a match between Bay and Rangers, last year’s finalists.

This will also be the first meeting at Lord’s between Bay and Cleveland since they met in the controversial Eastern Counties first-round match which saw Cleveland stripped of the cup after time-wasting tactics prevented Bay from reaching their target. They were later reinstated as champions.

The two teams will meet in the Belco Cup semi-final, which is scheduled for Lord’s on May 14.

In Sunday’s other T20 semi-final, the winners from Saturday’s other matches between Rangers and Cleveland and St David’s and Cuts will meet for a spot in the final, which is scheduled for next Saturday at a venue still to be confirmed.

The First Division T20 should also produce some exciting cricket this weekend with Flatts and Devonshire Recreation Club battling at Somerset to clinch the final semi-final spot from their group, while St George’s and Somerset will both try to finish top of their group.

On Sunday the losers of St George’s-Somerset will meet the winners of the other group, PHC or Devonshire Recreation Club, while the winners of St George’s and Somerset will play the runners-up from the other group. The outcome of the Flatts-Devonshire match will determine the second team for that semi-final.