scrapped plans for the six clubs to play each other three times this season.

Teams will take a break this weekend and then swing into League Cup action the following Sunday.

The teams have been split into two groups for the League Cup -- Devonshire Stars, Pembroke United and West Indian Association are in Group A and Sandys Sports Club, North Village and Forties in Group B -- and the winners of each group will meet in the final on August 29.

League Cup games will be played along the same lines as the former Safeguard Shield competition with 40-overs matches and bowlers limited to a maximum of five overs each. In the event of a tie, run rate over the two matches will be used to determine group winners.

The second half of the league season will resume on July 18 and end on August 22 after teams take another break on the Cup Match holiday weekend. The first round of the Knockout will be held on September 5 with the final set for September 19.

Forties, who shared the league title last season with North Village, will resume the second half of the league programme in a strong position after stretching their lead to 10 points by notching up their second successive nine-wicket victory on Sunday.

Forties dismissed Devonshire Stars for 137 at Nationals -- only Kirby Grant with one six and eight fours in his 55 provided any real opposition -- and then knocked off the runs for the loss of skipper Gordon Campbell's wicket in 30.2 overs.

Grant Tomkins shackled Stars with four for 11 in seven overs.

Opener Gary Edwards struck his fourth half-century in five innings and took his season's average to 98 with an unbeaten 53 (six fours), sharing in a second successive second-wicket century partnership with James Thomas, who hit eight fours in his 59 not out.

North Village were held to a draw by Pembroke United at Shelly Bay where Pembroke batted for 45 overs to reach 108 for eight in reply to Village's 159.

West Indian Association edged home by three wickets in a close struggle with Sandys Sports Club at the Royal Naval field.

Acting skipper Paul Ross hit top score of 47 in Sandys' modest 119, Jerry Callender snapping up five for 26 in 10 overs.

WIA reached their target in only 23 overs but Terence Corday, after drawing a blank the previous week against Forties, rocked the favourites with five for 67 from 12 overs. It was his third five-wicket haul of the season. Olwin Clarke, with an unbeaten 43, saw WIA home.

The league this week agreed to let Chris Graham-Ward rejoin WIA immediately, even though he played one match for Police earlier in the season. Devonshire Stars decided to drop their appeal against their one-wicket defeat by North Village. Stars initially claimed the match had been tied.