Pres Sando double up with Intercol title

Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege San Fer­nan­do etched their name once again in­to the sec­ondary schools crick­et his­to­ry, edg­ing out Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege Ch­agua­nas by nine runs in a tense In­ter­col fi­nal at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do, on Fri­day night.

With the vic­to­ry, the San Fer­nan­do out­fit com­plet­ed the sea­son dou­ble, hav­ing al­so cap­tured the league ti­tle ear­li­er in the year in March.

Win­ning the toss and opt­ing to bat, Pre­sen­ta­tion San Fer­nan­do got off to a brisk start thanks to open­ers Riyaad Mo­hammed and Levi Ghan­ny. The pair brought ear­ly mo­men­tum to the in­nings, with Ghan­ny play­ing with con­trolled ag­gres­sion, dri­ving and pulling flu­ent­ly for 43 off 41 de­liv­er­ies. His stroke-filled knock in­clud­ed four fours and a tow­er­ing six. Mo­hammed pro­vid­ed able sup­port, adding 17 be­fore falling with the score at 32 in the fourth over.

The ear­ly dis­missal briefly halt­ed San Fer­nan­do’s progress as Shaan Ram­ta­hal (2) fol­lowed short­ly af­ter, leav­ing the score at 36 for two. Bren­dan Boodoo looked promis­ing at num­ber four, con­tribut­ing 22 be­fore be­ing dis­missed with the to­tal at 82 for three. The in­nings then stum­bled dra­mat­i­cal­ly as three wick­ets—Ghan­ny, K’hill Thomas, and Aidan Choon—fell in quick suc­ces­sion with the score stuck on 94, send­ing rip­ples through the San Fer­nan­do camp.

De­spite the wob­ble, low­er-or­der re­sis­tance car­ried the team to a com­pet­i­tive 134 for eight from their al­lot­ted 20 overs. For Pre­sen­ta­tion Ch­agua­nas, Chris­tiano Ra­manan—usu­al­ly the side’s wick­et­keep­er—was the star with the ball, de­liv­er­ing a bril­liant spell of three for 18 in his four overs. Sup­port came from all-rounder Reyad Jerome, who fin­ished with two for 16, sti­fling San Fer­nan­do’s scor­ing rate at cru­cial mo­ments.

Chas­ing 135 for vic­to­ry, Pre­sen­ta­tion Ch­agua­nas’ re­ply got off to a dis­as­trous start. Jaden Joseph was bowled for a duck by the live­ly Zion Gar­ner Phillip with the third ball of the in­nings, and the pres­sure deep­ened when cap­tain Za­kariyya Mo­hammed fell for 13, leav­ing his side strug­gling at 14 for two.

At that stage, it was up to the ex­pe­ri­enced mid­dle or­der to steady the ship. Reyad Jerome and Chris­tiano Ra­manan rose to the oc­ca­sion, craft­ing a pa­tient and cal­cu­lat­ed 54-run part­ner­ship that re­vived hopes for the Ch­agua­nas sup­port­ers. Jerome con­tributed 33 off 33 balls, strik­ing three crisp bound­aries, while Ra­manan an­chored the in­nings beau­ti­ful­ly with a com­posed half-cen­tu­ry—50 off 53 balls, fea­tur­ing two tow­er­ing six­es.

How­ev­er, just as the chase ap­peared to be sta­bil­is­ing, Jerome’s dis­missal in the 13th over trig­gered an­oth­er col­lapse. Ra’ed Ali Khan could man­age just one, per­ish­ing soon af­ter with the score at 70 for four. Ra­manan con­tin­ued to fight valiant­ly, form­ing a 36-run stand with Aleem Nab­bie (17), which inched Ch­agua­nas clos­er to the tar­get. But once Nab­bie de­part­ed in the 17th over and Ra­manan fell the next, the chase lost its mo­men­tum. Ch­agua­nas even­tu­al­ly closed their in­nings on 125 for eight, falling short by nine runs.

Pre­sen­ta­tion San Fer­nan­do’s bowlers dis­played dis­ci­pline and re­solve, de­fend­ing their mod­est to­tal with in­ten­si­ty. Aaden Owen claimed two for 27 in his spell, while Zion Gar­ner Phillip im­pressed with a miser­ly four-over spell of one for ten that set the tone ear­ly on. Their tidy bowl­ing and sharp field­ing en­sured Ch­agua­nas nev­er got away.

This tri­umph adds to an on­go­ing ri­val­ry be­tween the two South-based pow­er­hous­es. In the past four years, the bal­ance of pow­er has swung back and forth: San Fer­nan­do com­plet­ed the dou­ble in 2023; Ch­agua­nas re­turned the favour in 2025; while the two schools split ho­n­ours in 2024, with Ch­agua­nas tak­ing the league and San Fer­nan­do the In­ter­col.

In front of a live­ly crowd at Tarou­ba, Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do, once again proved their met­tle when it mat­tered most. Their blend of youth­ful en­er­gy and com­po­sure un­der pres­sure sealed an­oth­er mem­o­rable chap­ter in their crick­et­ing lega­cy—and reaf­firmed their sta­tus as the pre­mier school­boy crick­et side in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Sum­marised Scores

Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege San Fer­nan­do 134 /8 (20 overs) (Levi Ghan­ny 43; Bren­dan 22; Chris­tiano Ra­manan 3-18) vs Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege Ch­agua­nas 125 /8 (20 overs) (Chris­tiano Ra­manan 50; Reyad Jerome 33; Aaden Owen 2-27)

Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege San Fer­nan­do won by 9 runs.