?Dwayne Bra­vo struck an un­beat­en 58 from 34 balls, as T&T reached the Fi­nal of the Cham­pi­ons League Twen­ty/20 yes­ter­day, when they com­plet­ed a sev­en-wick­et vic­to­ry over the Cape Co­bras of South Africa in Hy­der­abad, In­dia. The West In­dies all-rounder hit four fours and three six­es in his knock, as the Ca­lyp­so War­riors, chas­ing 176 for vic­to­ry from their al­lo­ca­tion of 20 overs, reached their tar­get with four balls to spare in the sec­ond semi­fi­nal at the Ra­jiv Gand­hi In­ter­na­tion­al Sta­di­um. Bra­vo for­malised the vic­to­ry, when he swung the sec­ond ball of the fi­nal over from Ro­ry Klein­veldt through mid-wick­et for his last four, af­ter he and T&T cap­tain Daren Gan­ga put on 93 � un­bro­ken � for the fourth wick­et. Gan­ga got 44 not out from 31 balls, and the re­sult meant that his side will face New South Wales Blues in the Fi­nal on Fri­day at the same venue for a chance to win US$2.5 mil­lion.

T&T's dream run in the com­pe­ti­tion looked un­der threat, af­ter Jean-Paul Du­miny hit four fours and three six­es in an 61 not out from 40 de­liv­er­ies, and fel­low South Africa in­ter­na­tion­al Her­schelle Gibbs made 42 from 27 balls to lead the Co­bras to 175 for five from their 20 overs. But Adri­an Barath � in par­tic­u­lar � and William Perkins again gave T&T a sound plat­form of 53 from the first five overs for the first wick­et. Perkins was un­nec­es­sar­i­ly run out for 20 in the fifth over, when Barath played Klein­veldt to point, failed to re­spond to his fel­low open­er's call for a sin­gle, and both bats­men end­ed up at the same end, as Gibbs threw the ball to the bowler to com­plete the dis­missal. T&T suf­fered an­oth­er set­back, when Barath was ad­judged lbw to Du­miny for 29 in the sev­enth over, but Sim­mons was twice for­tu­nate that nerves seemed to over­come Co­bras' Hen­ry Davids, when he dropped him on 11 at deep mid-wick­et off Claude Hen­der­son in the eighth over, and next over, floored him on 14 at deep cov­er off Du­miny.

But Sim­mons failed to make the most of his chances, and was caught at mid-wick­et, when he pulled a long-hop from Justin On­tong straight in­to the lap of the field­er. T&T still faced a tall or­der. They need­ed 91 from 59 balls, but Bra­vo joined Gan­ga, and they made it look like a cake­walk the rest of the way, scor­ing freely against the steady, if not men­ac­ing Co­bras at­tack.

Bra­vo had the plea­sure of reach­ing his 50 from 31 balls in the penul­ti­mate over, when he drove Charl Langeveldt in­side-out over ex­tra cov­er for his third four be­fore his last sparked cel­e­bra­tions. Ear­li­er, T&T were on the back-foot ear­ly, when Gibbs � a strug­gler in pre­vi­ous match­es � jumped them with typ­i­cal en­ter­pris­ing bat­ting.

But Sher­win Gan­ga and Dave Mo­hammed made time­ly strikes to re­move Co­bras' cap­tain Andy Puttick and Davids for ten and sev­en re­spec­tive­ly. T&T were again feel­ing the pres­sure when Du­miny joined Gibbs, and they start­ed to score freely. T&T suf­fered, when Gibbs sur­vived a pal­pa­ble stump­ing chance off Kieron Pol­lard which was re­ferred to the TV um­pire in the eighth over, but he was bowled in the 10th over by the same bowler to leave the Co­bras 82 for three. T&T bowlers' con­tin­ued to leak runs the rest of the way with the Co­bras bat­ting � led by Du­miny � mak­ing the most of every op­por­tu­ni­ty, but it was still was not enough. The Fi­nal will be a re­play of an ear­li­er match in the com­pe­ti­tion, when T&T beat the Blues by four wick­ets in the Su­per Eight stage.