John Davison, the former Canada captain, will lead Australia’s side at the Hong Kong Sixes tournament next month. Davison, 38, will act as playing coach of an otherwise young squad to take part in the event on November 8-9.
A former first-class cricketer with Victoria and South Australia, Davison was eligible to play for Canada in […]
Hong Kong’s misery on their tour of Sri Lanka continued as they lost the final one-dayer against the Sri Lanka Cricket Development XI in Colombo by 16 runs. Hong Kong, to their credit, put up a fight, first with the ball and later with a last-wicket stand but those efforts weren’t enough to pull off […]
After losing their first couple of games, Hong Kong put on an improved effort at the Burgher Recreation Club in Colombo but it wasn’t enough as Sri Lanka Cricket Development XI won by 47 runs in a match shortened to 43 overs a side. Chasing 255, Hussain Butt kept Hong Kong in the hunt with […]
Despite Hussain Butt’s unbeaten century, Hong Kong could muster only 218 in the first one-dayer against Sri Lanka Cricket Development XI at the Premadasa Stadium, a target which was easily overhauled by the hosts with 41 balls to spare, largely due to a hundred from Sachithra Serasinghe.
Butt’s 116 was the only significant score in Hong […]
Suresh Raina MS Dhoni hit centuries as India notched a record 256-run win against Hong Kong to open their Asia Cup campaign.
Suresh Raina smashed his maiden one-day international hundred and Mahendra Singh Dhoni added a ton of his own as India notched a convincing 256-run win against Hong Kong to open their Asia Cup campaign.
Dhoni […]
Karachi hasn’t taken very warmly to the one-sided first round of the Asia Cup. While the Pakistan-Hong Kong match on the first day managed to draw around 100 spectators, the encounter between India and Hong Kong couldn’t even manage that. Security guards, present in each stand of the ground, outnumbered the few who ventured to […]
Hong Kong’s Asia Cup campaign looks all but over as they limped to 80 for 5 chasing an imposing 375 against India in Karachi. Tabarak Dar and James Atkinson showed some steely resolve, but three stumpings off Piyush Chawla put India on the threshold of an emphatic win.
There wasn’t too much swing for Hong Kong’s […]
MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina are powering India to a challenging total in the face of some good spin bowling from Hong Kong.
34th Over: Munir Dar to Raina. FOUR! Exquistely driven by the southpaw tthrough covers to bring up the 200 for India. he is blazing away with Dhoni at the other end. India are […]
“We weren’t as bad as that,” Shoaib Malik, Pakistan’s captain, said after a scrappy but ultimately comfortable win over Hong Kong. “You forgot my 35?” If it has come to valuing 35s against Hong Kong and not being too concerned at a collapse that left them 161 for 7, then clearly something, somewhere is not […]
Match facts
Wednesday June 25, 2008
Start time 16.00 local time (10.00 GMT)
Big Picture
Tournament favourites India couldn’t have asked for an easier start to their Asia Cup campaign. Their opposition, Hong Kong, were routed by 155 runs by Pakistan and have less than a day to recover before facing the Indians, hurt after conceding the Kitply Cup […]
Pakistan thrashed Hong Kong by 155 runs in Karachi and Bangladesh beat United Arab Emirates by 96 runs in Lahore on the first day of the Asia Cup.
Sohail Tanveer hit a 55-ball 59 and added a vital 100-run eighth-wicket stand with Fawad Alam (63 not out) to lift Pakistan from 161-7 to 288-9. […]
Nadeem Ahmed, the left-arm spinner, sliced through the Pakistan middle-order as what was expected to be a straightforward opening encounter for the hosts threatened to become a tricky one. However, an Asia Cup-record 100-run eighth-wicket stand between Sohail Tanvir and Fawad Alam - both going on to their highest ODI scores - helped Pakistan reach […]