The Bulls booked their place in an all-Yorkshire Challenge Cup final with an imperious second-half display against Wigan.

Brian Noble's men followed a typically indifferent first-half display with a four-try blitz after the break to overturn a four-point deficit and set up a clash with Leeds in Cardiff in just 12 days time.

Veteran hooker Jimmy Lowes won the man of the match award with a masterful display, including the game's opening try, while Paul Deacon, Lee Radford and Jamie Peacock also put in impressive performances in the 36-22 victory.

"We paid the price of not concentrating for a ten- minute spell," said the coach, who was emotionally bear-hugging the players on the McAlpine pitch after the game.

"For the whole game I thought we were there or thereabouts, but we needed to refocus a bit at half time. That first 25 minutes of the second half they were very strong.

"We're not at our fluid best, but in patches we showed the talent, speed and execution that we will need to show for the rest of this season, and certainly in the final, to get to where we want to be."

But the cost of victory will be revealed later today as the "battered and bruised" players are checked over by the Bradford medical staff.

A number of players played through the pain barrier with Mike Forshaw spending most of the second half with his bruised right arm wrapped in ice as well as needing ten staples in a head wound.

Peacock, playing his first game since breaking his hand six weeks ago, limped off with blisters and six stitches in a gash in his knee.

The Warriors, who meet the Bulls again in Super League on May 2, also sustained yet more injuries in the game, with David Hodgson dislocating his shoulder, Craig Smith broke a finger while Kris Radlinski was taken to hospital with a neck injury.

"I'm really proud of the effort," said Wigan coach Stuart Raper.

"We stuck to a game-plan and it nearly came off."

The Bulls welcome Hull to Odsal on Friday in their final game before the trip to the Millennium Stadium eight days later. The scheduled trip to the London Broncos on Easter Monday has been postponed.

l Tickets for the final are on sale to season ticket holders today and to the general public tomorrow. Both clubs have been allocated 10,000 seats each for what is expected to be a 74,000 sell-out as the two best supported clubs head for the first ever Challenge Cup final in Wales.