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BCCB President with the Finalist

Final matches of U19 Boy’s & Girl’s School Cricket Championship was held on sunday at Jigmethang ground. In U19 Girl’s category, Motithang HS School won by 34 runs against Lungtenzampa MS School. Ugyen Dema was awarded Woman of the Match. Sonam Choden of Dechencholing MS School was awarded with the Best Bowler of the tournament Trophy and Sonam Pelden of Lungtenzampa MS School with Best Batswoman of the tournament.
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Jigme N Norbu, Chief Executive Officer of Bhutan Cricket Council Board handing over the memento and certificate of appreciation to Mr.Tshering Tobgay from Gyelsa Tewa Real Estate Developers towards their valuable contribution made for U-19 National Team during the ACC U-19 Challenge Cup, Malaysia 2011.

AGM group Photo with BCCB President

The BCCB Annual General Meeting took place on Thursday August 18th at Phuntsho Pelri Hotel. This was the first AGM conducted with presence of newly appointed Honorable President Thinley Wangchuk Dorji.
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Bhutan Cricket yearly school tournament continued after summer break for school in Thimphu, Sarpang, Punakha and Paro District. Eight Higher and Middle secondary school are participating in the U-19 Boys and Girls tournament in Capital while Class V and VI and VII and VII Category along with U-16 are scheduled in September month, Sarpang District will have class V and VI category scheduled to be completed in August Month and Class VII and VII , U-19 Boys and Girls will be held in September Month.

Punakha and Wangdue District have completed Class V and VI category before mid term exam and they will have Class VII and VIII Category and U-19 Boys and girls tournament later this month. Paro District have completed U-19 Boys and Girls tournament and the remaining Class V and VI and VII and VIII tournament will resume shortly.

Match from U-19 Girls in Thimphu District

Bhutan beat China by six wickets on Saturday, July 9 to finish third in the recently concluded U-19 Challenge Cup held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Team Bhutan

It was Bhutan’s second win over China, having met earlier in the opening match of the tournament.
China was asked to bat first after Bhutan won the toss. Bhutan got their first breakthrough in the fifth over, when Song Yangyang was caught by Susil Sharma off the bowling of Nima Gurung. Susil Sharma got rid of Han Minjian in the eighth over, while Nima Gurung got Li Jian in the 11th over, to restrict China to 27 for 3.
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Bhutan lost to Saudi Arabia by 8 wickets in the semi-final of ACC U-19 Challenge Cup, after winning the toss Bhutan elected to bat first, Thinley Jamtsho couldn’t make a progressive starts and was bowled out, Dechen Wangchuk and Kencho Norbu started to build a partnership when Dechen Wangchuk was caught. Sushil sharma showed some big hitting but could not last long, then Jigme Singye and Kencho start budding partnership but Kencho fell after scoring 44 runs bowled by Emad. In next over Jigme Singye was caught at mid-off and Bhutan were 88 for 6 eventually being all out for 93 runs from 30 overs.

Kencho Norbu Battling Hard against Saudi Arabia
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Bhutanese U-19 remain unbeaten and top the points table from group B after demolishing Iran by 94 runs and will face a tougher challenge Saudi Arabia in the semi final on 8th July at Selangor Turf Club, Kuala Lumpur.

Sushil Sharma Luitel Spins Iranian Batsmen
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Jigme Singye Bowling Against Myanmar
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Victorious Bhutanese U-19 Team against China
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Bhutan Cricket has announced 14-member U-19 squad for the upcoming ACC U-19 Challenge Cup 2011 scheduled to be held in Malaysia in July 2011. The squad includes mostly former U-19, U-16 and U-15 who represented Bhutan in ACC Tournament in the past. Jigme Singye will lead the team and said that “we have good side and have experienced player in Sushil Sharma, Kencho Norbu, Thinley Jamtsho and Myself and this time around we have good chance of winning the cup, i think it will be a good step forward for Bhutan Cricket if we could win”.

Coach Damber Singh Gurung is optimist and said that “these boys have been playing together for couple of years in ACC tournament and have good experience and understanding between the team, i am hopeful that the team will do well in the tournament”

The Team will be departing to Bangkok on 20th June 2011 where they will be playing few match practice to acclimatize with the heat.

1. Jigme Singye (Captain)
2. kencho Norbu (Vice-Captain)
3. Susil Sharma Luitel
4. Thinley Tenzin
5. Thinley Jamtsho
6. Kinley Wangchuk
7. Dechen Wangchuk
8. Dorji Khandu
9. Nar Bahadur Baruthoki Mongar
10. Sonam Darjey
11. Sisir Raj Gurung
12. Tshering Tobgay
13. Sherub Dorji
14. Nima Gurung

Coach: Damber S Gurung
Manager: Jigme N Norbu