The remaining two Belco Cup berths for next season and the relegation battle between Somerset and St.George's will be decided today as the 2008 cricket schedule draws to a close.

As it presently stands, league champions Young Men's Social Club and Southampton Rangers are the only two clubs to have qualified for next season's showpiece featuring the top four teams in the standings from the previous campaign.

Third and fourth-placed Police and Cleveland County, who both have 14 points – the maximum amount sixth-placed St. David's can obtain – will go head-to-head at Police Field today.

Elsewhere, St.David's are at home today against already relegated Devonshire in a match they must win and then hope Police lose their remaining fixtures against Cleveland and Rangers in order to stand any chance of Belco Cup qualification.

The Islanders (3.26) have a far superior run rate to that of Police (1.93) and Cleveland (2.23). However, Police have a game in hand tomorrow against Rangers while Cleveland have the upper hand on the head-to-head tie-breaker having swept this season's league series against their Eastern Counties rivals.

Things are just as close in the relegation battle involving sixth and seventh-placed Somerset and St.George's who each have ten points. Somerset are at home today against Rangers and require an outright victory to condemn Cup Match rivals St.George's to First Division cricket next season.

Somerset and St.George's split the season series between them which means the relegation battle could be decided on run rate with the West Enders (1.95) holding the edge over their East End (1.59) counterparts.

Tomorrow will see the final First Division promotion spot decided when third-placed Leg Trappers meet newly crowned league champs Bailey's Bay at Police Field.

PHC, who have already completed their season, currently have 18 points which is the maximum third-placed Trappers can obtain.

Trappers and PHC have one victory each in their encounters this season and as it stands the latter have a superior run rate of 2.87 compared to the former's 2.32.

Meanwhile, Spring Garden Cavaliers and Jamaican Association will put last weekend's defeats behind them when they battle it out tomorrow for the annual Caribbean Cup at Shelly Bay.

Jamaican Association lost to Bermuda Masters at Lord's last Saturday in a match for the new Warrington (Soup) Zuill Cup on the day the 77-year-old cricket historian died following a long illness, while Cavaliers suffered an agonising one-wicket defeat against Forties in the final of the Commercial Cricket League's Knockout final at Shelly Bay.

Cavaliers are the current holders of the Caribbean Cup, sponsored by Hamilton restaurant Spring Garden, but skipper Barry Richards expects a close fight against West Indian rivals in a 35-overs-a-side match.

"It will be a carnival atmosphere and we expect around 200 spectators to come along," said Richards, who was frustrated by his team's defeat by Forties.

"We handed it to them on a silver platter," he said as his side lost with one ball to spare after conceding 46 wides in the 40-overs-a-side match.

The Evening League, run by Stephen West, is scrambling to finish its truncated season after a late start due to ongoing field improvements at Shelly Bay.

Play-off quarter-finals continue next week with Twenty20 finals set for Sunday, October 12 at Sea Breeze Oval. The Second Division final will start at 10 a.m. followed by the Premier Division final at 2 p.m.