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Battles of unbeaten highlight third round

Bermuda and Haiti but the third round of limited-overs matches, which have been brought forward to today, should provide plenty of excitement.

In the Gold section, winless Nationals travel to Sea Breeze Oval to take on Bailey's Bay who have won their two matches so far while Devonshire Rec. and Somerset, two other teams with perfect records, meet at Devonshire Rec. field.

In the Green section, the top match will be at St. John's field where Western Stars host Cleveland. Another interesting match sees Police playing Southampton Rangers at Police field.

Nationals, one of the teams expected to challenge Devonshire Rec. and Bailey's Bay in the Gold group after last season's accomplishments, have failed to live up to expectations so far. They have lost both their matches to Somerset and Hamilton Parish and another loss to unbeaten Bay could hurt their chances of finishing in the top four for the quarter-finals.

Somerset, also unbeaten, face a tough away match against league champions Devonshire Rec. while Willow Cuts should be slight favourites over Flatts in a match involving two winless teams.

Either Western Stars or Cleveland will lose their perfect record in the Green section when they meet at St. John's field in one of the day's top matches while Somerset Bridge or St. George's will collect their first win.

Dwayne Steede, formerly of Southampton, has been training with Stars and could figure in the team's plans in the coming weeks.

Bridge and St. George's meet at White Hill field in a match that could go either way. Bridge had a tough start to the season, playing Police and Western Stars while St. George's lost to two of their group's favourites, St. David's and Police.

In the other matches, Warwick should not pose too much of a threat to St.

David's who will be seeking victory number three while Police should be favourites over Rangers at Police field.

The Bermuda Cricket of Control yesterday issued a revised schedule for the open division to allow teams sharing grounds to alternate home matches.

Flatts, for example, are now sharing Devonshire Rec. with the league champions, though they were late in informing the board of their home venue.

The original schedule had both Flatts and Devonshire Rec. playing at home at the same time on seven occasions. The revised schedule now sees Devonshire opening the defence of their league title at home to Southampton Rangers next weekend.

Cleveland are playing their matches at Sea Breeze Oval and Hamilton Parish will be using Wellington Oval.

The limited overs match between Social Club and Hamilton Parish, scheduled for today, has been postponed.