BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos-West In­dies A team Twen­ty20 cap­tain Dwayne Smith hit a half-cen­tu­ry but was up­staged by Trinidad and To­ba­go left-arm spin­ner Dave Mo­hammed who grabbed three wick­ets to lead Em­pire to a four-wick­et win over YM­PC, in the se­mi-fi­nal of the do­mes­tic T20 Cham­pi­onship here Fri­day night. Play­ing at Kens­ing­ton Oval, the right-hand­ed Smith carved out 65 off 61 balls to help lift YM­PC to 124 for sev­en off their 20 overs, af­ter they won the toss and opt­ed to bat. Mo­hammed, who has played five Tests and sev­en One-Day In­ter­na­tion­als, snared thee for 16 to lead the Em­pire at­tack. For­mer Bar­ba­dos cap­tain Ryan Hinds then stroked an un­beat­en 51 from 38 balls to car­ry Em­pire in­to Sun­day's fi­nal where they meet Maple.

Smith, re­called to the West In­dies squad last Sep­tem­ber, took cen­tre stage for YM­PC strik­ing five fours and two six­es but was the on­ly bats­man to show any en­ter­prise. He put on 39 for the sec­ond wick­et with Com­bined Cam­pus­es and Col­leges' Nekoli Par­ris (15) and 26 for the fourth wick­et with Ryan Wig­gins (15), to hold the in­nings to­geth­er as wick­ets fell steadi­ly. Smith, who opened the bat­ting, was fifth out in the 19th over. In Em­pire's run chase, the game was wide open at 69 for five in the 14th over un­til Hinds an­chored a 45-run, sixth wick­et stand off 27 balls with Javon Sear­les (23). Hinds cracked four fours and two six­es while Sear­les faced 14 balls and hit three bound­aries. (CMC)