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Today, Bhutan Telecom and Vibes played their first match of the league in Jigmethang. Toss was won by Vibe’s captain Hem Kumar and decided to put Bhutan Telecom into bat. First wicket of Tashi Tshering  fell in the 2nd over. Captain Dorji hopped into bat and stayed in giving a decent partnership of 51 along with Chencho but his inning came to an end when Koshi bowled him out. After the end of Dorji’s inning, Vibes took another four wickets just giving Bhutan Telecom 15 runs from those batsmen. It was Thinley and Koshi who ended the innings of four batsmen but the important wicket from those was Tandin Wangchuk’s, who was already set in. Thinley Jamtsho was the fielder who gave one hand with his full stretch body to catch Tandin out. Bhutan Telecom was at a struggle as they were just 109 for 6 wickets and it seemed like they wouldn’t even reach 150. 

 Then comes the Batsman number 8 Saijo, who greatly impacted the Vibes bowlers scoring fastest hundred with the use of only 61 balls. Saijo had some luck in the middle of his inning, when he was dropped by Ashis at the deep square leg but then came his real talent. His bat’s contact with the ball was tremendous and started drumming the balls in all the directions. He was the major player from Bhutan Telecom  persuading the bowlers of Vibes in selling the runs to Saijo’s talent.

He created a big hope for the team to generate a huge target which Vibes could hardly chase. Bhutan Telecom’s batsmen induced 275 runs on the board from 30.3 overs. Koshi was the highest wicket taker from Vibes taking 5 for 76 runs in 10 overs.

Second inning, Thinley Jamtsho was known as the Master Blaster and Koshi, a smart cricketer. They opened the batting line. Koshi started with a boundary four where on the other side Thinley got his first run after 12 dot balls. Bhutan Telecom’s Sherab got Koshi’s wicket in the 4th over with a great outswing bowl which bowled him. Then the captain of Vibes, Hem came into bat but was sent back to the pavilion after playing only two balls and it was Tandin Wangchuks stunning caught and bowled wicket. After the two quick wicket loss, the pressure was on Thinley who was on the other end to maintain the score on the board. He started his natural game i.e. to look for more boundaries and to dominate the bowlers.

Thinley ended his inning with 35 runs on his name when he was caught and bowled by Suprit. Then the hope was almost gone for the Vibes to win this match. They started to lose wickets after their loss of Thinley’s massive wicket. The game was almost over for Vibes but the entertainment came from Tsheten who was number 7 batsman hitting a gigantic two 6’s and three 4’s. Vibes inning ended at 112 runs in just 15.4 overs. Suprit was the pick of the bowler from Bhutan Telecom taking 4 for 10 runs in just 3 overs.

Result

BHUTAN TELECOM			R	B	4s	6s
Tashi Tshering	LBW  b Tsheten		4	5	1	0
Chencho Dorji	Bowled b Koshi		17	21	3	0
Dorji	Bowled b Koshi		35	26	7	0
Jigme Singye	LBW b Koshi		0	1	0	0
Dechen Wangchuk	Bowled b Koshi		0	1	0	0
Suprit	Bowled b Thinley		8	3	2	0
Tandin Wangchuk	C Thinley b Sampath		12	15	2	0
Saijo*	Not out		105	62	10	7
Shiva	C W keeper b sampath		11	6	2	0
Manoj Luitel	LBW b Sampath		16	10	4	0
Sherub	Bowled b Koshi		2	16	0	0
Extras: w 46, lb 4, b10,nb5			65
Total			275 all out off 30.3 overs

NEPAL	O	M	R	W
Thinley Jamtsho	7	0	77	1
Tsheten	2	0	26	1
Koshi	10	0	76	5
Sampath	10	0	78	2
Ashis	2	0	17	0

VIBES CC			R	B	4s	6s
Thinley Jamtsho	c&b Suprit		35	26	6	1
Koshi	Bowled b Sherub		5	10	1	0
Hem Kumar	c&b Tandin		0	2	0	0
Sampath	Bowled b Jigme		13	8	1	1
Phub Dorji	Bowled b Suprit		5	10	0	0
Tsheten	c.saijo b Dechen		24	14	3	6
Tashi Jamtsho	Bowled b Suprit		2	9	0	0
Ashish	C Jigme b Suprit		4	3	1	0
Kinley Dorji	C Tandin b Jigme		0	5	0	0
Tandin	LBW b Dechen		0	3	0	0
Sonam Dorji*	Not out		0	1	0	0
Extras: nb 1, w 14, b5,lb 4			24
Total			112 all out off 15.4 overs

BHUTAN TELECOM	O	M	R	W
Tandin Wangchuk	4	0	23	1
Sherub	3	0	23	1
Jigme Singye	4	0	12	2
Suprit	3	0	10	4
Dorji	1	0	22	0
Dechen	1	0	4	2

Vibes won the toss and elected field first.
Bhutan Telecom scored 275 runs all-out in 3o.3 overs
Vibes scored 112 runs all-out in 15.4 overs
Man of the match: Saijo for  his 105 knocked not out.

Officials
Umpires: Manoj and Bikash
Scorers: Deki and Sonam
Match referee: DS Gurung