THE last four remaining teams will vie for a spot in Thursday’s final of the inaugural Jamaica Inter-collegiate T20 Cricket Championship today at GC Foster College in Angels, Spanish Town.

The two semi-final match-ups pit The Mico University College, one of the favourites to win the title, against the Manchester-based Northern Caribbean University (NCU) in the first game scheduled to start at 9:30 am.

In the day’s feature set for 1:30 pm, hosts GC Foster College, with a number of former National Youth representatives, take on the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) who made it to the last four as the best second-placed finishers.

Group A winners Mico University should get the better of NCU after coming out on top, in arguably the toughest group, ahead of the University of Technology (UTech), the University of the West Indies (UWI) and Excelsior Community College.

Former National Youth captain Marlon Johnson will lead the Mico team which includes past National Youth players Zeneiffe Fowler, Ramon Senior, Coy Thompson, Herman Henry and wicketkeeper Kirk Harris.

However, Mico have been somewhat weakened by the absence of the talented all-rounder Nkrumah Bonner and hard-hitting right-handed batsman Shacoya Thomas.

Both players are currently representing the Barbados-based Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) team in the ongoing regional four-day first-class cricket championship.

Little is known of the NCU aggregation that won Group C, besting Knox Community College, Church Teachers College and the St Elizabeth-based Bethlehem Teachers College.

While there aren’t any standout players in their ranks, NCU will be pulling on all their strengths to overcome their biggest challenge yet to have any chance of lifting the Intercol T20 trophy.

Derval Green, who successfully captained Jamaica at the Under-15 and Under-19 levels, is the main cog in the GC Foster set-up, along with former national youth players Dwight Stewart and Jamie Trenchfield.

Also in the Gibbs Williams-coached GC Foster line-up are Joseph Lemmie, a standout schoolboy player for Eltham High a few year ago and skipper Kerron Davis.

Williams’ unit had little trouble getting by Moneague Teachers’ College, Brown’s Town Community College and CASE from Portland to top Group B and rightly are, therefore, tipped to reach the final.

But CASE will look to the all-round pair of Desmond McNab and captain Keneil Campbell, to carry them home in what would be one of the shock results in the history of local Inter-collegiate cricket.