St. George's 132-8 Tailender Sinclair Gibbons clinched a dramatic victory for St. George's on the last ball of the shortened Knockout Cup final yesterday at Lords's when he scampered through for a single down the leg side.

St. George's set a target of 6.55 per over when they finally went to bat at 6.25 after a three-and-a-half hour stoppage because of rain, replied with 68 in the first 10 overs as Wendell Smith (48) and Dexter Smith (39) gave them the perfect start -- 95 in 13 overs.

But the match still came down to the last delivery after champions Bay swung the match with five wickets for 22 runs before Ricky Hodsoll and David Adams added a crucial 14 for the seventh wicket to put the scores level with one over remaining.

However that winning run would prove very difficult to get as Eugene Foggo and Ricky Hodsoll (12) were run out on the third and fifth balls of that last over from Clarkie Trott to leave Gibbons to face the final ball of the match.

With the game hinging on the final delivery, some minutes were lost before Gibbons took strike as a St. George's fan ran onto the field to confront umpire George Francis after the dismissal of Hodsoll and had to be restrained by Bailey's Bay players.

Hodsoll's dismissal looked fatal as he had earlier driven Jermaine Outerbridge for a six in the 18th over. However, Gibbons was just as composed as he pushed the winning run off his pads and raced through for the single as St. George's fans raced onto the field again, this time to celebrate.

Jermaine Outerbridge and Corey Hill kept Bay in the game by taking five wickets between them, Outerbridge claiming three for 22 and Hill two for 12.

Earlier, captain Ricky Hill blasted 67 from eight fours and two sixes as Bay, sent on on a damp wicket which delayed the start of the match to 1.07, were 106 from 17.4 overs when the rain delay came at 2.28.

Hill shared an opening stand of 52 with Chris Smith (20) while Noel Gibbons scored 22 in a stand of 48 with Hill for the third wicket. At that point Bay were perfectly placed, having scored at a rate of 6.09.

The late start delayed the match to 48 overs per team and when play finally resumed at 5.58, it was reduced to 20 overs per side, with Bay losing four wickets in the final 14 deliveries they faced in their innings as all the batsmen went for big hits in trying to build as big a total as possible.

In the end not even the 131 proved enough.