The Bhutan Cricket Council Board’s Level-O (Level Zero) course on umpiring started at the Paro College of Education (PCE) in Paro today. 10 male and 4 female trainees of PCE are taking part in the two-day course. It is aimed at preparing them as umpires for the for the up-coming school and club tournaments.
Dorji Loday Taking Theory Class
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Bhutan Cricket Council Board will be organizing BCCB Twenty20 Championship in Thimphu from the month of April. All interested teams are invited for registration.
Last date of team registration: 30 March 2011
Entry fee: Nu. 5000/- per team
Venue: Jigmethang Cricket Ground, Thimphu
Further information:
Coaching Department, Bhutan Cricket
Mobile: 17603617/17118788/77335816
Bhutan cricket council board conducted refresher course for level O coaches in Punakha which was attended by games teachers from various school in Punakha and Wangdue Dzongkhags. The main objective of the refresher course was to revitalize and revamp the technical aspects of the game to those teachers which had already taken part in the level O coaching camp last year.
Demo of Grip by DS Gurung
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Action from Sarpang Twenty20
Sarpang District concluded the Inaugural Twenty20 cricket tournament after two weeks of blistering entertainment played in the Gelephu Sports Ground, local team from neighboring country India also participated in tournament where they walk away being winner. The tournament is being conducted by BCCB branch office in Gelephu.
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In the seventh/eighth play-off, Bhutan recorded a last-ball two wickets victory over The Bahamas. After a disappointing tournament with both bat and ball, Jigme Singye and Manoj Adhikari came to the party for the Asian side and helped them secure a positive end to a disappointing tournament.
Bhutan Team photo with coach Baba Sourjah
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Kuwait dominated once again on day three of Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 8 after ripping through Bhutan’s batting line-up and skittling the Asian side for just 31 runs.
Captain during toss
The four losing sides Suriname, Bahamas, Gibraltar and Bhutan are all relegated out of Pepsi ICC WCL Div. 8. Gibraltar will take on Bhutan while Bahamas will face Suriname on Thursday in a series of cross-over matches.
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Tshering Dorji of Bhutan and Shazam Ramjohn of Suriname at the toss
Bhutan bounced back from its huge defeat to Vanuatu yesterday by beating Suriname in a tightly fought game that saw the South American side fall just 11 runs short of target.
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Bhutan players Celebrates Fall of Vanuatu wickets
Vanuatu inflicted an embarrassing 282-run defeat on Bhutan who crumbled for 55 in the face of Vanuatu’s huge 337 for 9. Captain Andrew Mansale led the with 87 off 81 balls, adding 154 alongside Johnathan Dunn (75), but it was the closing stages of the innings that provided the real fireworks. Patrick Matautaava swung his way to 79 from 43 deliveries including seven fours and four sixes and he wasn’t finished there as he then claimed 4 for 11 in Bhutan’s reply. None of the batsmen could muster double figures in an innings that lasted 23.1 overs.
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Bhutan captain Tshering Dorji is feeling confident alongside his coach Baba Sourjah ahead of the side’s opening match against Vanuatu tomorrow in Kuwait for Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 8.
“We’ve been working hard ahead of the tournament, despite Bhutan not having turf wickets or great cricket practice facilities but we don’t let matters like that keeps us down,” said Sourjah.
“Bhutan only has one artificial wicket and we play on a concrete pitch at a local school, so it’s great to be playing on turf wickets,” said Dorji, “So playing here is great especially with outfields that are far smoother than Bhutan.”
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The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced the final squads for the eight-team Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 8 (WCL Div.8) tournament which will be played from 6 to 12 November in Kuwait.
Teams from Suriname, Vanuatu, Bhutan, Gibraltar, Germany, Zambia and the Bahamas will join host Kuwait for the first ever WCL Div. 8. The top two sides at WCL Div. 8 will win promotion to the WCL Div. 7 to be staged in Botswana in May 2011.
The matches will be hosted at four grounds in Kuwait, namely Hubara, Unity, KEC and Sulaibiya.
WCL Div. 8 features eight sides rather than the usual six for WCL and so the tournament is being played in a slightly different format with two groups of four. The points system will be as follows in the group stages: two points for a win, one point for a tie and zero for a loss.
The sixth day of the event will see play-offs between the groups after the final group standings have been completed on day four. The WCL Div. 8 final and position play-offs will then take place on 12 November.
The full schedule for WCL Div. 8 is as follows:
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