Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege San Fer­nan­do (Pres San­do) can fi­nal­ly claim the Sec­ondary Schools Crick­et League’s (SS­CL) Pre­mier Di­vi­sion with a win over St Bene­dict’s Col­lege at home in Union Hall, San Fer­nan­do, Tues­day.

How­ev­er, they will be wary of Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege Ch­agua­nas (Pres Chag), who can snatch the ti­tle away, if they lose to St Bene­dict’s and their Ch­agua­nas broth­ers win against Na­pari­ma Col­lege, who was beat­en by Hillview Col­lege, last week.

‘Pres San­do’ is un­beat­en his year, be­hind the strength of open­ers Riyaad Mo­hammed and Khaleem Mo­hammed. The two bats­men have been pro­lif­ic this sea­son. Riyaad has al­ready notched up 430 runs from sev­en match­es, av­er­ag­ing 86, with one cen­tu­ry and four fifties. He scored 92 in last week’s win over Vish­nu Boys’ Hin­du Col­lege. Khaleem has al­so added 353 runs, av­er­ag­ing 58.8 with one hun­dred and one fifty.

Pre­sen­ta­tion will start as the favourite, but it will have to guard against com­pla­cen­cy es­pe­cial­ly as St Bene­dict’s has on­ly won two match­es this sea­son. A rain-af­fect­ed match did not al­low them to get a re­sult against Shi­va Boys’ Hin­du Col­lege.

‘Pres Chag’ has a much tougher task in Na­pari­ma Col­lege. Al­though ‘Naps’ had a de­cent start to the sea­son and was even in the run­ning up to two weeks ago, back-to-back loss­es against Pres Sa­do and Hillview Col­lege have dent­ed their con­fi­dence.

‘Pres Chag’ will be full of con­fi­dence hav­ing on­ly lost to ‘Pres San­do’ this sea­son.

Na­pari­ma will find it dif­fi­cult with­out star bat­ter Kyle Ram­doo (who has been banned due to in­el­i­gi­bil­i­ty) to face a po­tent at­tack led by the fiery Alexan­der Chase. Know­ing what will be at stake, Chase and com­pa­ny will be even more dif­fi­cult to face at Lewis Street, San Fer­nan­do.

All match­es bowl off at 10 am.

Tues­day’s fi­nal round match­es

AT UNION HALL, SAN FER­NAN­DO

Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege San Fer­nan­do vs St Bene­dict’s Col­lege

AT ST MARY’S COL­LEGE, ST CLAIR

St Mary’s Col­lege vs Fa­ti­ma Col­lege

AT KNOWLES ST, CUREPE

Hillview Col­lege vs Vish­nu Boys’ Col­lege

AT LEWIS ST, SAN FER­NAN­DO

Na­pari­ma Col­lege vs Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege Ch­agua­nas