BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Two-time de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Set­tlers will bat­tle with War­riors in their chase for a third con­sec­u­tive BIM10 crick­et ti­tle.

Both Set­tlers and War­riors record­ed thrilling vic­to­ries over the Pel­i­cans and Ti­tans re­spec­tive­ly in their semi­fi­nal clash­es at the Wind­ward Crick­et Ground on Sat­ur­day.

Set­tlers need­ed hero­ic ef­forts from Zach­ery Carter and cap­tain Nicholas Kir­ton to get past Pel­i­cans by sev­en wick­ets off the penul­ti­mate ball of the match.

The de­fend­ing champs slipped to 30 for three be­fore Carter, who thumped 40 from 19 balls and Kir­ton, who smashed 37 from 20 balls, added an un­bro­ken 81 runs for the fourth wick­et to car­ry them to 111 for three off 9.5 overs in pur­suit of Pel­i­cans’ 109 for six.

In the day’s sec­ond match, Ti­tans would have been pleased with their ef­forts af­ter Ray­mon Reifer’s 68 from 31 balls and Car­los May­nard’s 33 off 16 balls pro­peled them to a for­mi­da­ble 136 for four from their 10 overs.

How­ev­er, Yvan Grant blast­ed 38 off 15 balls, cap­tain Jonathan Carter hit 30 from 11 balls and Ke­mar Smith, who scored an un­beat­en 29 from eight balls, hit the win­ning runs off the last ball of the match to car­ry the War­riors to 140 for five to give them a five-wick­et vic­to­ry.

CM