Proud to be a Sikkimese: Sikkim Travel, Culture & Local Heritage

The senior team of Sikkim is currently playing Vijay Hazare Trophy (One Day Tournament) in Jaipur, Rajasthan. They will be playing five matches in the league round of the tournament and while playing their second match against Mizoram on 9 th December at Jaipuria Vidhyalaya Ground, Jaipur , they won the match by 4 wickets. Sikkim won the toss and elected to field first. In the first innings, Mizoram scored 183 runs in 50 overs with the loss of 9 wickets. Karthik CA, Nitesh Kumar Gupta and Sumit Singh took 3 wickets each and Kranthi Kumar and MD Saptula took 1 wicket each. In the second innings, Sikkim chased the target of 184 runs in 44.3 overs losing 6 wickets. They scored 185 runs of which Kranthi Kumar made 63 runs and remained not-out with Palzor Tamang who scored 17 runs, Ashish Thapa made 29, Liyan Khan 21, Karthik CA 21, and Lee Yong Lepcha 21. Sikkim played well with both bat and ball and all the players contributed equally for this win. They will be playing against Trip...

The Under 19 Men’s Team of Sikkim is currently playing Cooch Behar Trophy (multi-day tournament) and in their second match against Meghalaya, they won the match by 31 runs, earning 6 points.   Meghalaya won the toss and choose to field first. In the first innings, Sikkim scored 172 runs where Roshan Prasad scored 41 runs, Ankur Malik 32, MD Arif 29, Purna Bdr Bhattrai 26, Tarun Sharma 21 and Arun Chettri 10 runs. In Meghalaya’s first innings they were all-out for 187 runs and were leading by 15 runs. Ankur Malik took 8 runs for the side. In the second innings, Sikkim scored 141 runs and gave the target of 127 runs to win. Ankur scored 55 runs, MD Arif 30, Arun 17, and Tarun 14 runs. Chasing the target Meghalaya were all-out in 95 runs and lost the match to Sikkim by 31 runs. Bijay took 4 wickets, Ankur and Tarun took 3 wickets each. Sikkim will be playing their next match against Nagaland at Vikash Cricket Ground, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

PRESS RELEASE Sikkim won their second match of the Cooch Behar Trophy 2018-19 today against Mizoram by 285 runs at Jorhat, Assam. After winning their first match of the tournament against Arunachal Pradesh with 3 wickets, this is their consecutive win. Sikkim got 6 Point(s) for this win and so far 13 Point(s) is earned by the team in the tournament. Sikkim won the toss and chose to bat first on 14th January and gave a total score of 221 runs in the first innings. Om Saini scored 84 runs followed by Arif Ahmed Ansari (43), Anwesh Karan Sharma (21), Rahul Paik (19) and Robin Limboo (11*). They restricted the opponent team to 114 runs, with Om Saini taking 4 wickets, Adarsh Ramudamu (2), Deepak Mahato (2) and Arif Ansari (1). In the second innings, Sikkim made 245 runs with the loss of 8 wickets and declared to Mizoram. Rahul Paik made his first Century for Sikkim 107 runs followed by Deepak Mahato (31), Bhim Luitel (23), and Anwesh (19). Sikkim gave a total of 352 runs to...