SICA Organises Umpire Level ‘O’ Course 2020-21
Sikkim Cricket Association (SICA) has organised a five-day Umpire Level ‘O’ Course at Sikkim Cricket Ground, Rangpo. Two experienced faculties – Mr Satrajit Lahiri (Ranji Panel Umpire, BCCI LVL – C Coach) and Mr Somnath Jha (Ranji Panel Umpire, BCCI LVL – B Coach) will be conducting the course.
From all four districts of Sikkim, the total 28 candidates are attending the course of which there are eight female candidates and twenty male candidates. The course will be conducted from 25th to 29th November 2020.
Both the faculties were welcomed by Tshewang Lama (Hony Secretary) and Karma Sonam Lhendup (Joint Secretary) of SICA. During the welcome speech, the Secretary briefed participants about cricket Umpire as a career and its challenges and wished them luck. Both faculties’ thanked the President, Secretary and SICA for inviting them for Umpires training programme and briefed the participants about the importance of umpire for the development of cricket in State.Both the faculties were welcomed by Tshewang Lama (Hony Secretary) and Karma Sonam Lhendup (Joint Secretary) of SICA. During the welcome speech, the Secretary briefed participants about cricket Umpire as a career and its challenges and wished them luck. Both faculties’ thanked the President, Secretary and SICA for inviting them for Umpires training programme and briefed the participants about the importance of umpire for the development of cricket in State.
During the course, the faculties will cover all the aspects of umpiring, beginning with the thorough explanation of updated Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) Cricket Laws. In the first day, the participants were taught pre-match duties of umpires, crease markings & measurements, the position of umpire – static and dynamic.
Both the faculties are happy with the events that SICA is organising in recent times and also impressed with the standard of the ground as compared to the other state associations. The main motive of SICA behind organising all such courses is to make a self-sufficient cricketing state; wherein days to come Sikkim will have a full-strength of support staffs and match officials required in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) tournaments and local people will get maximum opportunities to be part of cricket as a career.