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On the 5th & 6th June, the Bulgarian Cricket Federation held a 15 overs a side Tournament with four teams competing. Each team played each other once with a final played by the two highest scoring teams.  Some very good performances were seen during the first round, including Medical University of Sofia XI Captain Gill who made a very good half century with five boundaries and four 6's finishing on 54 not out in the first game and 59 in his second game. 

The exciting 20 over final was played between Bulgarian Cricket Club and Medical University of Sofia. MUS won the toss and batted first with Vikram making 62 runs not out and the Captain Gill making 44 runs not out. MUS finished their innings on 174 runs with the loss of 2 wickets.

The openers for the BCC innings struggled but Saif-urRehman played well, making his 62 runs with 5 sixes and 3 boundaries. The partnership of Faisal and Riaz were at the wicket for the final ball, BCC requiring 2 runs to win. Faisal was facing the ball and made the two runs to win the match and win the Tournament. BCC won the Final by 1 run. 

For the first time, this Tournament had two Umpires who were new Bulgarian Umpires, Ivo and Marteen. These two new Umpires had last month passed their ECC Umpiring Course arranged by the Bulgarian Cricket Federation and ECC. The BCF are grateful to ECC's Umpire Consultant Graham Cooper for running such a good course in Sofia, Bulgaria. 

Following this Tournament the BCF chose the 30 players for the first National Bulgarian squad who are now being coached and from whom will be chosen the 13 final players for the Bulgarian National team.