| Venues | : | Penang and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Dates | : | 3rd – 9th July |
| The top two teams will be promoted to the ACC U-19 Elite Cup of 2013. | ||
| GROUP A | GROUP B | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Penang | |
| Saudi Arabia | Bhutan | |
| Kuwait | China | |
| Maldives | Myanmar | |
| Brunei | Iran |
Asian Cricket Council Development Officer Rumesh Joseph Ratnayaka was in kingdom for country assignment, during his stay he was working closely with the local coaches and administration towards the development plan and program for the Bhutan cricket. He shared some of his cricketing knowledge with the U-19 Boys who are going vigorous training in Thimphu for the up coming ACC U-19 Challenge Cup 2011 to be held in Penang, Malaysia later in July. He had a session with U-19 Boys team where he did the match situation scenario at Jigmethang Ground and the boys loved thoroughly.
Rumesh Ratnayaka shares bowling tips to young Bhutanese U-19 Players
BCCB presented developing program for new coaches with Rumesh and he will be putting up the proposal with ACC for approval. He was impressed with Bhutan Cricket and asked the administration to develop coaches so that they can in-return develop new players. He will make another visit on September for Level 1 Coaching Course only if level 0 coaches are ready for the course.
Dot Com The winner of Twenty20 2011
In a totally one-sided game, team Dot Com beat BTCL comfortably by six wickets, to emerge winners of the Twenty20 championship, the final of which was played yesterday in Thimphu.
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Sunday, 24 April 2011, Jigmethang
Bhutan Telecom vs. Royal Thimphu College
Bhutan telecom vs Royal Thimphu College The rain almost spoiled the telecom’s party as the heavy downpour threatened to cease the game and share the points between telecom and RTC. But somehow the dark clouds over team telecom began to phase out as some of their team mates started to offer spiritual smoke to the local deities of Dechenphug. Telecom went on to break the record of the highest runs scored in the tournament 216 runs by the Rigsum CC as they put up enormous score of 231 runs.
Dorji Loday, Man of the Match (98 runs in 53 balls)
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Dot Com CC Team Photo
Sunday, 24 April 2011, Jigmethang
Dot Com vs Pling Warriors
On Sunday warriors from Phuntsholing gave tough fight to the tournament favorite Dot com as they went down fighting till the last ball was bowled. Dot Com who is already through to semifinals yet again keeps their clean sheet by winning the last game of the league round against Pling Warriors by 61 runs. Dot com won the toss and opted to bat first and score 170 runs with Thinley Tenzin smashing 41 runs. Explosive Sushil Sharma contributed 20 runs and captain Jigme Singye scored 23 runs. Pling bowler Kinley Dorji manages to take 2 wickets conceding 20 runs in 2 overs.
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Saturday, 23 April 2011, Jigmethang
Lhaki group vs Rigsum CC
Last year’s BCCB’s super league champion Rigsum CC demolished the Lhaki group in the second match on Saturday.
After winning the toss Lhaki Group opted to bat first, which proved to be a bad decision as they were bowled out for 28 runs in 13 overs.
Rigsum CC Celebrates Fall of wickets
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Pling Warriors vs Himalaya Adventure
Saturday 23 April 2011, Jigmethang
Himalayan Adventure & Druk Trowa vs. Pling Warriors
What could be the first close encounter for Himalayan Adventure & Druk Trowa in the tourney so far came with boys from phuntsholing on Saturday.
Himalayan Adventure & Druk Trowa won the toss and elected to bat first. They managed to score102 runs in 19.4 which was a decent target to defend. Three of their batsmen managed to be in double figure, Lakshmi leading from the front scored 20 runs from 16 balls backed by quick fire from Chencho who went on to score 19 runs from 9 ball and Sonam Thinley scored 19 runs from 23 balls. Disciplined bowing and fielding from Pling warriors restricted their target to 103 runs to win and Tarun was the pick of the bowlers as he bagged three wickets conceding eight runs in just 2.4 overs.
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BCCB Twenty20 Championship has started from 16th April 2011 at Jigmethang Thimphu. The first match was played between Dot Com and BTCL. BTCL won the toss and opted to bat first. In the third ball of first over, opener Tandin was drop at slip of Susil’s off break bowl by Kinley but took the wicket of Bikash in his fifth ball while he tried playing from the top was brilliantly caught at cover by Jigme Singye. BTCL’s second wicket fell of Sanjog Chettri in 2 over bowl by Tandin Wangchuk the slow medium pacer when score was 18 runs on the board.
Rigsum CC Kencho Norbu
BCCB Twenty20 Championship
16 April-8 May 2011
Thimphu: Bhutan
Tournament Fixture
Group A
Dot Com
P/ling Warriors
Himalaya Adventure & Druk Trowa
BTCL
Group B
Royal Thimphu College
Lhaki Group
Rigsum Cricket Club
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Thimphu school gets more cricket coaches as the cricket board has successfully completed level O coaching course in the capital. It’s been almost five year since the Bhutan cricket conducted the last level O course in Thimphu. In the two day course 17 teachers (3 females & 14 male) participated but still four teachers were could not take part in the course.
Group Photo
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