SECOND EDITION OF INTER-SCHOOL TOURNAMENT TO BE CONDUCTED BY SICA

Sikkim Cricket Association (SICA) intends to conduct Second Edition of Inter-School Tournament for Under 16 & 19 Boys’ and Under 19 Girls’. In 2017, SICA had conducted the first inter-school tournament zone-wise but in 2018 couldn’t hold the tournament due to sudden participation of SICA in fourteen different National Level Tournaments conducted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as a full member.

This year SICA has sent an invitation to Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools of Sikkim along with the tournament form and an article “Cricket as a Career”. This invitation letter is posted on our Facebook page and our website www.sikkimcricket.com also. Any School interested in participation should fill the form and send the scan copy to our email – sca@sikkimcricket.com. Once we get the response from various schools than the modalities will be worked out by the SICA to conduct the School tournaments.

The main motive behind this tournament is to promote the sport of cricket in state and also search new talents from every corner of the state and work on grooming these talents from the grass-root level and prepare individuals for the National Level tournaments of various categories.

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