Junior Cricket League

BPS Invitational Tournament 2011

Bangkok Patana School (BPS) completed another successful invitational tournament like every junior cricket season at their sports ground.  The tournament consisted of three teams; Bkk Stars, Bkk Tigers and the newly invited Chiang-mai team.  Chiang-mai also recently won the National Youth tournament recently in both the boys and girls sides.

Chiang-mai continued to come out strong and undefeated by beating both the Bangkok teams in the last overs.  While Bkk Tigers beat the Stars, all three teams showed good spirit and improvement in skills and teamwork.  The 20 over tournament took place on the 22nd and 23rd of January at BPS consisting of U-16 players.  The junior league continues to develop every year with players developing both physically and mentally.  

BPS Invitational Tournament 2010

Bangkok Patana School (BPS) will once again be holding its annual junior cricket tournament “BPS Invitational Tournament”, which will take place over the upcoming weekend (Jan 23rd-24th, 2010). Three teams will be taking part; Bangkok U16, BPS and Khon Kaen / Chiang Mai U16 combined team.

Each team will be play each other once with the top ranked team taking home this year’s honors. BPS will be trying hard to retain their crown but will face stiff competition from both the Bangkok U16 and Khon Kaen / Chiang Mai U16 teams. The first match will start at 12.30 at the BPS sports complex, with BPS taking on Khon Kaen / Chiang Mai U16. 

Match Schedule & Results

Bangkok Junior Cricket U13 Tournament 2009

Bangkok Junior Cricket hosted an under-13 cricket tournament on the 13th and 14th March, which took place at the AIT ground competing against the visiting Hong Kong under-13 team.

This presented a great opportunity for Bangkok under 13 boys to show their cricket skills. The hard work that is put in at every Sunday’s junior league practice hours was there for everyone to see during both matches. The first opportunity to play a competitive cricket tournament was a good experience for all the players.

Every player gave their best to the game and some of them excelled with their performance. Mukesh Saraff who opened the batting in both matches was consistently good and gave a solid start to the innings showing sound technique and some good scoring shots around the field, scoring 32 in the first match and 33 in the second one. Mukesh also bowled and fielded well in both the games, his best score being 6 over 16 runs with one wicket taken in the second match on the 14th. In the second day’s game, Mukesh was batting very well and looked well settled and was building a healthy second wicket partnership with Jainam Sanghavi on the other end. At that stage Mukesh edged an outside off stump delivery to the wicketkeeper and walked without waiting for the umpire’s decision. Later, umpire Mr. George told us all that he wouldn’t have given him out because it was very tough decision. Mukesh displayed the right sportsman spirit, for what we all love the game of cricket for. This most noteworthy action has surely made us all proud. He demonstrated all signs of a good cricketer in the making. Well played, Mukesh. He was applauded by everyone present at the ground and rightly so.

Jainam batted well to score 75 off 77 balls on the second day, the highest number of runs for Bangkok team in the second match and won the man of the match award. Jainam played some innovative shots behind the wicket and towards the on side.

Kushal Shah showed good resilience as captain of the side and lead the team well with good batting and bowling.  

Man of the series went to visiting team Alex for his score of 91 runs from 77 balls in the first game and 35 off 22 balls in the second game  Although both the game results were not in favor of Bangkok team, the game of cricket was surely the winner.

Every player deserves the praise for their enthusiasm and the commitment on the field and the good behavior off the field. Keep up the good work and enjoy the game.

This report will not be complete without offering a round of applause and a big thank you to all the parents for being present at the ground during the games to show your support for the team and also for the fullest co-operation and support to the Thailand junior cricket games on Sundays at BPS cricket ground. To coach Zia and Khuram for being there and helping out on the day.

Report by Jayesh Patel

BPS Invitational Tournament 2009

Teams: Bangkok All Stars, BPS, Khon Kaen

BPS continued their tradition this year from Jan 31st to Feb 1st by hosting the BPS Invitational Tournament consisting of teams from BPS, Khon-Kaen and an All-star team. In the pervious years KK and All-stars had taken the hournours and BPS team was keen on brining the title home this year. All-star got off to a great start by beating BPS by 9 wickets followed by a win over KK by 4 wickets.  The next day BPS got themselves together and beat KK by 77 runs.  Reaching the finals, BPS beat All-stars by 2 runs, giving them the title for the first time.

BEST BATSMEN: DEV PATEL [BPS]
BEST BOWLER: KUSHAL [BPS]
BEST FIELDER/W.K: ADISORN(PEPSI) [Khon Kaen]
EMERGING PLAYER OF THE TOURNAMENT: SMITH PATEL [BPS]

Match Schedule & Results

Season 2008/2009

A day with at the Junior Cricket Leauge

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