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Carlton's Dominic Drakes.

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Wanderers Kirk Edwards bowled three overs and took four wickets for 13 runs.

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Marlon Welcome-Goodman topscored for Carlton with 66 runs off 55 balls which included 10 boundaries and one six.

Wanderers, Gladiola to meet in BCA’s T20 Cup final

Despite not having some of their key players Wanderers still cantered to an easy three-wicket victory over defending champions Carlton and a place in the final ofthe Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) T20 Cup Wanderers were set a victory target of 166 runs for victory after 12 penalty runs were added to Carlton’s score due to a slow over rate by the home team.

However Wanderers were never behind the required run rate and when Roshon Primus and Jono Drakes came together they dispatched the ball to all parts of the ground.

In the fifth and sixth over the two put on a whopping 37 runs.

Primus seemingly responded to something said to him in the middle with some heavy blows which saw him score 23 runs off a mere 14 balls and included four boundaries and one six.

Drakes was not to be outdone and he finished with 26 runs also off 14 balls, which included four boundaries and one maximum.

There was an all-around team effort by Wanderers with Kirk Edwards scoring 34 runs and Ian Boyce also scoring 34 runs.

There was some exquisite shots by these four players with Boyce and wicketkeeper Moore taking the team to victory with an over and two balls to spare.

There were some exciting moments earlier in the innings as Carlton’s Keon Harding removed two of the key players in the Wanderers innings.

Harding dismissed Primus as he edged a rising delivery through to the wicketkeeper Harding then produced an excellent yorker to remove Drakes but Wanderers never eased up off the gas pedal.

In the end it was a drive for four that gave Wanderers the victory.

Wanderers opponents in the final will be Gladiola who defeated UWI A at Rices by 14 runs.

Gladiola scored 144/6  thanks to Martin Nurse who scored 37 runs off 32 balls and Kadeem Alleyne who scored 29 off 14 balls.

In reply UWI A was on target with about a run a ball, left to score off about three overs left.

However UWI A was losing to wickets quickly and in the end they ran out of wickets.

Topscoring for UWI was Tevyn Walcott with 34 runs off 21 balls and a late surge by Akeem Dewar – with 30 runs off 20 balls.

A key wicket to fall was that of Jonathan Carter who was brilliantly caught by Renaldo Brathwaite on the boundary for 21 runs.

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