Na­pari­ma Col­lege stu­dent Cephas Coop­er cre­at­ed a Sec­ondary Schools record when he smashed 297 runs against Bar­rack­pore West in the Pre­mier­ship di­vi­sion at Lewis Street in San Fer­nan­do, yes­ter­day.

Coop­er's bril­liant ef­fort took his school to a mas­sive 394-run win. He went past Kirstan Kallicha­ran's ef­fort of 194 for Vish­nu Boys in 2013.

At that time, Kallicha­ran went past a long­stand­ing record set by Bri­an Lara for the high­est in­di­vid­ual score of 168. A cou­ple sea­sons ago, Kalicha­ran scored an un­beat­en 404 not out against Va­len­cia. How­ev­er, this was in the SS­CL un­der-14 di­vi­sion.

Coop­er's ef­fort is now the high­est score in the school's top flight Pre­mier­ship. The right-han­der opened the bat­ting and was dis­missed stumped with still eight overs to go. He left the are­na for 297 made off 142 balls with 32 fours and 12 six­es. His ef­fort took Na­pari­ma Col­lege to a mam­moth 506 for four off their 50 overs.

In re­sponse, a shell-shocked Bar­rack­pore out­fit could muster on­ly 112 - with Ryan Ban­doo tak­ing 5/23, Math­ew Coop­er, Cephas' broth­er tak­ing 2/28.

In the oth­er big game in the sec­ond round, Hillview got past St. Bene­dicts Col­lege by eight wick­ets. Bene­dicts bat­ted first and made128 all out with An­der­son Ma­hase tak­ing 5/17 and Navin Be­daisee 3/27. Hillview then romped home at 132/2 with skip­per Be­daisee get­ting 59 not out and Leonar­do Julien 36 not out.

SCORES

At Lewis Street: Na­pari­ma 506/4 (50ovs) (Cephas Coop­er 297, Dar­ren Sam­lal 54no, Kyle Roopc­hand 47, Avinash Ma­habirs­ingh 35, Qwin-ci-Ba­bel 34, Shi­va Ram­lal 2/57) vs Bar­rack­pore 112 all out (Dil­lon Jag­mo­han 28no, Ryan Ban­doo 5/23, Math­ew Coop­er 2/28) - Na­pari­ma Col­lege won by 394 runs.

At Hon­ey­moon Park: St. Bene­dicts 128 all out (Joshua James 30, An­der­son Ma­hase 5/17, Navin Be­daisee 3/27) vs Hillview 132/2 (Navin Be­daisee 59no, Leonar­do Julien 36no) - Hillview won by 8 wk­ts.