HONG KONG CRICKET TEAM

The 'Hong Kong cricket team' is the cricket team representing Hong Kong. They played their first one-day internationals in the 2004 Asian Cricket Council Asia Cup, and in 2005 they played their first first class matches competing in the ICC Intercontinental Cup for the first time. From 1992 onwards Hong Kong has played host to the Hong Kong Sixes, an annual six-a-side competition that attracts teams from the leading cricketing nations.

Contents

History

International competitions

Tournament History

Hong Kong have never qualified for the Cricket World Cup.

★ 1996: First round ★ 1998: Semi Finals ★ 2000: Runners up ★ 2002: Semi Finals ★ 2004: First round ★ 2006: Runners up

Current Squad

Cricket in 2007

References

See also

External Links

History

The sport was introduced to Hong Kong by the English, with the first recorded game taking place in 1841, and the Hong Kong Cricket Club being founded ten years later. The Cricket Club played a number of interport matches against sides on the Chinese mainland, and in 1890 played Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) for the first time.
1892 saw disaster when the ''SS Bokhara'', which was carrying the team back from Shanghai, sank in a typhoon with the loss of 125 lives. There were only 23 survivors, which included only 2 of the 13 team members. The other 11 members of the team were lost.
1948 saw the last game against Shanghai. After the communist take-over in 1949, no more games were possible in China. Jack Chegwyn led the first international team to Hong Kong in 1952, and the first tour by an MCC team was in 1966. In 1969 the Hong Kong Cricket Association became an associate member of the International Cricket Council, cricket's global ruling body.

International competitions

Hong Kong has competed in the ICC Trophy since 1982 and has competed in the Asia Cup, where their matches had official one-day international status. They did not enjoy success in the 2004 Asia Cup, and lost all their matches. After finishing as runners-up in the 2006 ACC Trophy, they will again play in the tournament in 2008. They performed equally badly in the 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup, losing their first game to the United Arab Emirates, and only drawing their game against Nepal, in which they were bowled out for 91, because of rain.

Tournament History

World Cup

Hong Kong have never qualified for the Cricket World Cup.

Intercontinental Cup

★ 2004: Did not participate

★ 2005: First round

ICC Trophy

★ 1979: Did not participate

★ 1982: First round

★ 1986: First round

★ 1990: Plate competition

★ 1994: Second round

★ 1997: 8th place

★ 2001: First round

★ 2005: Did not qualify

Asia Cup

★ 1983 to 1995 inclusive: Did not participate

★ 1997: Did not qualify

★ 2000: Did not qualify

★ 2004: First round

ACC Trophy

★ 1996: First round

★ 1998: Semi Finals

★ 2000: Runners up

★ 2002: Semi Finals

★ 2004: First round

★ 2006: Runners up

ACC Premier League

★ 2006: Last Place (Out of 5 teams)

Current Squad

Selected for the 2007 ICC World Cricket League Division Three tournament:

★ Ilyas Gull (Captain)

★ Najeeb Aamer (Vice-captain)

★ Afzaal Haider

★ Butt Hussain

★ Courtney Kruger

★ Irfan Ahmed

★ Khalid Khan

★ Mark Eames

★ Mark Kratzmann

★ Nadeem Ahmed

★ Nasir Hameed

★ Rahul Sharma

★ Ravi Sujanani

★ Zain Abbas
The reserve players are as follows:

★ Ghulam Mustafa

★ Imran Idrees

★ Skhawat Ali

★ Tabarak Dar

Cricket in 2007

After finishing as runners up in the 2006 ACC Trophy, Hong Kong qualified for Division Three of the ICC World Cricket League in 2007, where they will play against the Cayman Islands, Fiji, Italy, Papua New Guinea, Tanzania and Uganda. The tournament will be played in Darwin, Australia in May/June.

References

See also

★ Hong Kong national cricket captains

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★ Hong Kong women's cricket team

External Links

★ Hong Kong Cricket Association