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Dechencholing Middle Secondary School With the Winner Trophy

Dechencholing Middle Secondary School successfully retained Thimphu School U-19 Girls Trophy after they beat Yangchenphug Higher Secondary School by 6 wickets. Yangchephug after winning the toss elected to bat first, Devika and Sonam Choden the fast bowler lead the attack for the Dechencholing School after they got both the opener Rinchen Wangmo and Karma Wangmo back to pavilion with score of 2 and 0 respectively, with the fall of another wicket in 3rd overs, Yangchenphug batsmen were forced on back foot and giving Dechencholing bowler extra bit of energy, Sonam Lhamo and Nima Zangmo shared a good 5th wicket partnership between them with 30 runs as they carved the bowler for singles and playing some good shot.
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Drugyel Lower Secondary School With Winner Trophy as Chief Guest Tashi Applauds

Drugyel Lower Secondary School became the first school to lift the School Cricket Championship trophy after they beat Khangkhu M.S.School by 8 wickets today in the class 5 & 6 Category played in Rinpung Ground. The school tournament came late into paro but the Spirit and Enthusiasm shown by the school kids is immense, there were buzz amongst the players as they walk into the filed to do fielding and batting, some played sensible while other just gave a good try to have some kind of appreciation from their team mates and teacher.
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Thimphu: Under-19 Girls Tournament has reach to final showdown between Dechencholing Middle Secondary School and Yangchenphug Higher Secondary School. The Defending Champion Dechencholing School remain Unbeaten in all the group matches they played. Yangchenphu on the other hand defeated both Lungtenzampa and Motithang School to reach to the final. The Final will be played in the Dechencholing Ground.

Last Year Champion Dechencholing School will have to Defend their Title This year
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Thimphu: The Under -19 Women’s team preparation for the ACC Women’s Twenty20 Championship to be held in Malaysia in July 2009 began from May month and with just three weeks to go for the Tournament, the girls are being given intensive training on batting, bowling and physical fitness by Coach Damber Singh Gurung.10 out of 14 players are based in Thimphu while 4 are from Sarpang District. This year school girl’s tournament saw new sensational of spinner in Sonam Zam who has been outstanding throughout the tournament and has been phenomenal in the practice.

Sonam Zam, The Sensational Spinner

This will be second time Bhutan National Women’s Team will be participating in the ACC International Tournament and BCCB is confident for a good show by the girls, “we are sure to give every country a good fight looking at their performance in the domestic tournament and in the practice” said Jigme N Norbu, CEO BCCB. Bhutan is Group in A Alongside Champion Nepal, Thailand, Singapore, Qatar and Iran.

Fielding Session

In the Second day of the Paro School Tournament, Woochu School took on Khangkhu School in the morning Match where Woochu skipper asked his counterpart to bat first winning the toss. Khangkhu after they lost their opening match against Taju came prepared for a victory, it proved to be an fruitful journey for their Teacher Santosh who has been associate with cricket when he was a teacher in Sarpang District and later this year he got posted in paro district. Khangkhu made good use of inexperienced Woochu side and made a blistering start. They made 202 in their 20 overs allocated quota and an unconditional challenge for the Woochu Players to chase.
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