Tri­umph Sports Club de­feat­ed To­ba­go's Club Cru­soe by 28 runs on Sat­ur­day at Tri­umph's ground in Gar­den Vil­lage, Arou­ca, in the Courts In­ter­club T20 com­pe­ti­tion to book a place in the semi­fi­nal.

They will play Gleno­ra at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre in Cou­va on Sat­ur­day. To­ba­go won the toss and elect­ed to field first. Tri­umph lost Johnathan Nar­ine in the first over caught off the bowl­ing of Ren­dell Bobb with­out trou­bling the score, Ravin­dra Singh then joined his skip­per Mark Sankar and took the score to 31 be­fore Sankar was out caught off the bowl­ing of Bobb.

Chris­t­ian No­ray joined Singh and the pair put on 43 runs be­fore Singh was caught off the bowl­ing of Kwani Thomas for a well played 45. Alex Fredricks made a quick 20 but when No­ray was dis­missed for 27, no one else made any­thing sub­stan­tial and Tri­umph made 145 for 9 in their 20 overs.

Best bowler for To­ba­go was Ar­ron Kei­th who took 3 for17 in three overs while Bobb took 2-23 in his 4 overs.

To­ba­go start­ed well with the open­ing pair of broth­ers Ja­son and Jared Per­saud tak­ing the score to 67 with­out loss in 8 overs. In the ninth over, Alex Fredricks dis­missed Jared Per­saud for 14. Carl­ston Nurse was out LBW to his sec­ond ball for a duck and Ron­dell Hos­ford was bowled with his first de­liv­ery, leav­ing Fredricks with three wick­ets for three runs.

Per­saud was bril­liant­ly caught and bowled by Dami­an Pe­ters for 46 wick­ets fell reg­u­lar­ly as Club Cru­soe were bowled out for 117 in 18.4 overs.

Fredricks end­ed with 4 for 20 while Pe­ters took 3 for 21 in their four overs.

Tri­umph Sports Club will play in the se­mi fi­nal on Sat­ur­day.

Sum­marised Score:

Tri­umph Sports Club 145/9 Ravin­dra Singh 45, Chris­t­ian No­ray 27, Alex Fredricks 20, Ar­ron Kei­th 3/17, Ren­dell Bobb 2/23 vs Club Cru­soe 117 all out Ja­son Per­saud 46, Jared Per­saud 14, Aaron Kei­th 12no, Alex Fredicks 4/20, Dami­an Pe­ters 3/21. Tri­umph won by 28 runs.