[1][2] One day, her primary school sports teacher announced that a new game named cricket was going to be introduced.
[2] However, Gurung also needed to overcome quite a few challenges, and especially the lack of facilities in Bhutan for any form of sports training.
[7] Nearly five years later, on 17 February 2014, in Bhutan's final match of the 2014 ACC Women's Premier tournament, held in Thailand in a 40 overs a side format, Gurung took 2/13 to help her team beat Iran in the play-off for fifth and sixth places.
[12] Gurung's and Bhutan's next WT20I matches were at the ICC Women's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier in Dubai in November 2021.
[13] Arguably the tournament's leading bowler, she ended up with a total of 7 wickets in her 5 games, at an economy rate of 4.05.
[14] In March 2022, Gurung, by then the vice-captain of the Bhutanese team, was recruited to play in the 2022 FairBreak Invitational T20 tournament in Dubai in May 2022.
She had been one of five Bhutanese players nominated by Cricket Bhutan's CEO as a potential recruit, after he had earlier contacted FairBreak's managing director to enquire about the tournament.
In a profile published in February 2022, Bhutan Cricket claimed that "[w]ith her big nerd glasses, unkempt blonde hair, and bright smile, [she] looks more like a pop star ..."[1]