T&T’s lead­ing Un­der-13 crick­eters will get their fi­nal op­por­tu­ni­ty to ad­dress the na­tion­al se­lec­tors in The Price Club Su­per­mar­ket-spon­sored North/South Clas­sic on Wednes­day (June 7).

The sched­uled 40-over con­test gets go­ing at 10.30 am at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre Ground at Bal­main and in­di­vid­ual per­for­mances will de­ter­mine who gets picked on the team to play Guyana’s Un­der-13s in a rec­i­p­ro­cal se­ries lat­er this year.

The se­ries was ini­ti­at­ed by T&T Crick­et Board pres­i­dent Az­im Bas­sarath, now vice-pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies who saw the op­por­tu­ni­ty to pro­mote in­ter-ter­ri­to­r­i­al ri­val­ry at that lev­el.

He be­lieves that be­cause of the ab­sence of a re­gion­al U-13 com­pe­ti­tion, a gap ex­ists in the de­vel­op­ment of crick­eters at their most for­ma­tive lev­el when po­ten­tial can be iden­ti­fied and nur­tured at an ear­ly stage.

Bas­sarath ap­proached his coun­ter­part on the Guyana Crick­et Board who was en­thu­si­as­tic about the pro­pos­al and wel­comed the first T&T team last year for a se­ries of match­es which they dom­i­nat­ed.

Now plans are in place to host the Guyanese who are anx­ious to put up a bet­ter fight against their tra­di­tion­al ri­vals for su­prema­cy and square the con­test which is ex­pect­ed to be­come an an­nu­al af­fair.

South will be cap­tained by Reyad Jerome whose four wick­ets for 25 runs great­ly as­sist­ed Cen­tral to beat South West by four runs to win the Sco­tia­bank U-13 In­ter Zone Tour­na­ment last month.

The North team will be led by tal­ent­ed bats­man Justin Pam­phille who scored a hun­dred and made two half-cen­turies in the U-13 In­ter Zone Tour­na­ment to emerge as the lead­ing run-get­ter.

TEAMS

North: Justin Pam­phille (Cap­tain), Za­heem Ali (Vice-cap­tain), Zy­on Daniel, San­jiv Bachu, Samir Boodoo, Isa­iah John­son, Ab­diel Boland, Eli­jah Ash­ton, John-Paul Bar­ri­mond, Davis Guer­ra, Sha­heen Khan, Zan­der Cas­tana­da, Ky­muel Lynch. Mikhail Williams (coach), Kei­th Boodoos­ingh (man­ag­er)

South: Re­yard Jerome (Cap­tain), Ke­shav Mon­gru (Vice-cap­tain), K’Hill Thomas, Jay­den Sadaphal, Ni­tyum Mon­gru, Jaden Seu­rat­tan, Jor­dan Julien, Cur­tis Ju­nior Nanan, Adri­an Singh, Zion Phillip, Rylee Gan­goo, Bradley Jag­ger­nauth, Veer Ar­joon. Ramesh Dharamdeo (coach), Pe­ter Pad­more (man­ag­er).