After choosing to bat, Barbados, like Guyana, their opponents for tomorrow’s final, had done the previous day, successfully defended a modest total of 175 off 48.2 overs by bowling out T&T for 114 in 36 overs.

The 29-year-old Bradshaw removed the first five batsmen in the T&T order, including West Indies captain and batting superstar Brian Lara for a first-ball duck, to give the Barbadians a shot at their second straight Red Stripe Bowl title.

Bowling full-length and a straight line, Bradshaw sent T&T crashing to 23 for four. The left-arm fast-medium bowler had Imran Jan bowled, Lara lbw playing across the line, T&T captain Daren Ganga caught at short mid-wicket, and Dwayne Bravo caught and bowled for single figure scores, all inside the first 10 overs of the innings.

After this early rampage, T&T had a mountain climb. Shazam Babwah, whose 30 was the top score, and Aneil Kanhai, who gave good support with 21, stalled the Barbadians with a 49-run fifth-wicket stand spanning the next 10 overs.

Bradshaw, who bowled his allotment of overs on the trot, made the breakthrough when Kanhai was caught behind off the last ball of the 20th over to complete figures of 10-2-22-5.

Pedro Collins, the other Barbados left-arm fast-medium bowler, did the trick when Babwah was bowled exactly three overs later to remove T&T’s last hope of a rearguard fightback and leave the twin-island republic on 76 for six.

There was to be no comeback story for T&T. Vasbert Drakes captured two of the last four wickets, Collins claimed one, and Ryan Hurley, the other.

Earlier, Barbados’ batsmen had also struggled on a pitch that offered bounce and movement to the bowlers early.

Dwayne Smith hit the top score of 37, but the defending champions subsided to 89 for five. Hurley scored 26, Barbados captain Courtney Browne made 22, and Drakes got 22 in a late flourish to beef-up the total.

Dwayne Bravo was the chief wrecker of the Barbados innings with four wickets for 34 runs from 6.2 overs, while Dinanath Ramnarine, Mervyn Dillon, and Reyad Emrit captured two wickets apiece.

BARBADOS

S. Campbell c Kanhai b Dillon 1

D. Richards c wkpr G. Mohammed b Emrit 18

D. Smith c & b Ramnarine 37

F. Reifer c wkpr G. Mohammed b Emrit 15

R. Hinds b Ramnarine 8

*+C. Browne c wkpr G. Mohammed b Bravo 22

R. Hurley b Bravo 26

V. Drakes b Bravo 22

I. Bradshaw c wkpr G. Mohammed b Bravo 9

P. Collins b Dillon 2

C. Collymore not out 0

Extras: (b-1, lb-1, w-9, nb-4) 15

Total: (all out - 48.2 overs) 175

Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-45, 3-75, 4-77, 5-89, 6-130, 7-144, 8-171, 9-175.

Bowling: Emrit 10-0-43-2 (nb-3), Dillon 9-2-26-2 (w-1), Jan 4-0-12-0, Ramnarine 10-1-23-2 (nb-1), D. Mohammed 9-0-35-0 (w-1), Bravo 6.2-0-34-4 (w7).

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

*D. Ganga c Collymore b Bradshaw 9

I. Jan b Bradshaw 5

B. Lara lbw b Bradshaw 0

D. Bravo c and b Bradshaw 6

A. Kanhai c wkpr *Browne b Bradshaw 21

S. Babwah b Collins 30

D. Mohammed c wkpr *Browne b Collins 12

M. Dillon lbw b Hurley 3

+G. Mohammed c wkpr *Browne b Drakes 14

R. Emrit lbw b Drakes 0

D. Ramnarine not out 5

Extras: (b-2, lb-2, w-4, nb-1) 9

Total: (all out - 36 overs) 114

Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-10, 3-17, 4-23, 5-72, 6-76, 7-79, 8-103, 9-105.

Bowling: Collins 10-1-26-2 (nb-1), Bradshaw 10-2-22-5 (w1), Drakes 8-0-23-2 (w-3), Collymore 2-0-21-0, Hurley 6-1-18-1.