Je­lani Beck­les

Ce­phus Coop­er dis­played his all-round abil­i­ty yes­ter­day to give South-East a slim ad­van­tage over Cen­tral in round two of the BG T&T Un­der-15 In­ter­zone tour­na­ment at Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, Ch­agua­nas.

Coop­er sin­gle-hand­ed­ly got South-East to 158/6 bat­ting first, as the right-han­der slammed an un­beat­en 107. Rick Lovin pitched in with 19, while medi­um pace bowler Kyle Madoo took 5/28 for Cen­tral.

Coop­er was al­so de­struc­tive with the ball in hand, snatch­ing 3/23 to dis­miss Cen­tral for 129 in the first in­nings. Justin Gan­goo al­so caused some dam­age, tak­ing 4/43. Na­tion­al U-15 bats­man Crys­t­ian Thur­ton, who struck a cen­tu­ry in round one, top scored with 48 for the Cen­tral boys.

South-East limped to 46/4 at stumps in the sec­ond in­nings, an over­all lead of 74 runs. Cap­tain Coop­er was un­beat­en at the close on 19.

The match be­tween North-East and To­ba­go was post­poned un­til next week Thurs­day and Fri­day, be­cause the To­ba­go play­ers are prepar­ing for the SEA ex­am­i­na­tions.

All oth­er match­es con­tin­ue to­day at 10 am.

SCORES

At Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, Ch­agua­nas: South-East 158/6 (Ce­phus Coop­er 107 no, Rick Lovin 19, Kyle Madoo 5/28) and 46/4 (Coop­er 19 no, Madoo 1/16, Rupdeen Sookdeo 1/1) vs Cen­tral 129 (Crys­t­ian Thur­ton 48, Isi­ah Ali 23, Justin Gan­goo 4/43, Coop­er 3/23)

At Fa­ti­ma: East 178/7 (Kirstan Kallicha­ran 99, Jonathan Balka­ran 17, Daniel Os­auna 2/22, Adri­an Ram­la­gan 2/41, Tyrel Job 2/58) and 43/1 vs North 153/9 (An­dell Nicholas 51, Michael Am­bard 31, Kallicha­ran 3/37, Kyle John 2/22)

At Fran­cis Seep­aul: South 190/6 (30 overs) (Vikash Ram­sawak 56, Mat­i­ba Joseph 56, Nathaniel Sem­per 4/44, Amit Gopaul 2/22) and 32/0 vs South-West 93/9 (30 overs) (Gopaul 26, Ka­reem Hamil­ton 21, Mitchell Williams 3/9)