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

The U25 Men’s team of Sikkim wins their match against Mizoram by 9 wickets today at Sikkim Cricket Ground, Rangpo  in the Col.C.K Nayudu Trophy . Mizoram won the toss and choose to bat first and in the first innings Sikkim thrashed the opponent and restricted them to a total of 60 runs. MD Talim took 5 wickets conceding just 22 runs in 11 overs. Sikkim made 161 runs in the first innings where Saurav Kr Prasad made 33 runs, Anwesh Karan Sharma 31, Arun Chettri 21, Ingsho Limboo 19, and Pranesh Chettri 16. In the second innings, Sikkim built the pressure on the opponent by taking early wickets and were all-out for 135 runs giving the target of just 35 runs to win. Tarun Sharma took 5 wickets in 15.2 overs conceding just 29 runs. Aadil Alam took 2 wickets, Rahul Kumar and Anwesh took 1 wicket each. Sikkim won the match in 35 overs where Arun scored 25 runs, Roshan Prasad 5 not out, and Tarun 1 not out. SICA mentions that the State had a massive opportunity to play with...

Sikkim ’s Ankur Mallik 's eight-wicket hauls in both the innings helped the Sikkim U-25 team defeat Arunachal Pradesh with 248 runs in the ongoing Col.C.K Nayudu Trophy held at KIIT Cricket Stadium, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha . They finished their Plate Group as winners. Batting first the Sikkim team scored 206 with the help of Jeetendra Sharma ’s 86 runs. He shared two partnerships of 64 runs with Ankur Mallik and 47 runs with Robin Limboo . Arunachal Pradesh was all out for 58 runs with Ankur Mallik scalping eight wickets giving away 27 runs in 11.5 overs. Anwesh Karan Sharma took the other two wickets. Sikkim’s star allrounder Ankur Mallik scored an unbeaten 98 runs to take the score of Sikkim to 210 in their second innings. Chasing the target of 359 set by the Sikkim team, the team of Arunachal Pradesh could only manage 110 runs. Again Ankur Mallik repeated his first innings eight-wicket hauls giving away 36 runs in 17 runs. In the tournament, Sikkim had managed three wins in fou...

The Under 25 Men’s team of Sikkim registered yet another victory and a consecutive win in “Col. C. K. Nayudu Trophy” , defeating Nagaland on their third match of the league round by 174 runs today at KIIT Cricket Stadium, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha.   Sikkim won the toss and elected to bat first. In the first innings, Sikkim scored 394 runs, where Ankur Mallik played a record-breaking knock of 225 runs, Suraj Gupta (40), Arun Chettri (38), Anwesh Karan Sharma (29), Rahul Kumar (18), and Robin Limboo (16) not-out. Chasing the target Nagaland was all-out for 266 runs trailing with 83 runs in the first innings. Sikkim showed a brilliant bowling spell with Ankur taking 6 wickets and Rahul Kumar 4 wickets. In the second innings, Sikkim made 211 runs and gave the target of 340 runs to win to Nagaland in 76 overs. Once again Ankur was the highest scorer with 74 runs, Saurav Kr Prasad (41), Suraj (34), Rahul (20) and Arif (11). During the second innings of Nagaland, Sikkim’s bowlers were ab...