as firm favourites against challengers Devonshire Rec., but Stars' skipper Gary Brangman is not about to take victory for granted.

Although Devonshire suffered a demoralising defeat against lowly St. David's in last Sunday's Premier Division league match at home, Brangman still wants his team to be aware of the great potential of their opponents.

The skipper regards Devonshire as being a group of fighters with unlimited potential, even though they have been very inconsistent so far this season.

Brangman also wants his team to forget about last year's crushing seven-wicket defeat they handed Devonshire in the final.

"We must be aware of the fact the team are rivals and that Devonshire always hype themselves up when they take us on, so our players are going to have to forget about past results and concentrate fully on this game ahead of us,'' said Brangman yesterday.

"We simply cannot take anything for granted. Looking at last year's final, we happen to get on top of them early and they were just unable to recover after the early setback when they lost both openers without scoring.'' Devonshire would obviously love to forget that mediocre performance, although skipper Albert Steede led them on the road to recovery when they has scored just one for the loss of two wickets. Steede contributed 29 runs and helped to added stability by joining then skipper Anthony Amory in a third-wicket stand that put on 32 runs.

Devonshire though were eventually dismissed for a modest total of 121 with Arnold Manders taking three for 22. Manders also led the batting for Stars with 41 as they reached their winning target with three wickets down.

"Arnold is one of our many bowlers who is bowling quite well again this season. For the final we will have a good attack, led by two medium pacers and four spinners,'' said Brangman.

"Our bowling has certainly been one of our stronger points so far, we have batted well and our fielding has been quite steady. Overall I think we are a little stronger than we were a year ago because our goal is to improve on our collection of trophies.'' Brangman could not give an account for the demise of Devonshire at home against St. David's a week ago, but he points out that winning tomorrow is something that will not be handed to his team.

"I strongly believe that Devonshire do not need anything special to get themselves motivated to play us in the final. We cannot underestimate them.''