Hong Kong drops opening match to Malaysia amid nail-biting finish in Men’s...
Hong Kong lost just one wicket at the forty-over mark of its run chase. The early fall of right-hand batsman Martin Coetzee brought captain Nizakat Khan on the pitch for the hosts, and ignited the...
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Double century partnership steers Canada to defeat of Hong Kong in Men’s One...
A batter chalking up 100 runs in a match is no run-of-the-mill feat. Only about 316 out of 10000 knocks result in a century or higher total, according to a statistical model by Towards Data Science....
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Under-19 World Cup wrap: Success for Nepal, struggles elsewhere
The 2024 Men’s Under-19 World Cup has reached its conclusion for the four associate sides, with a range of success for each team. Nepal (11th) Results: Group Stage: vs New Zealand, lost by 64 runs....
View ArticleKlaassen, Van der Gugten return for Netherlands ahead of Nepal tour
The Dutch have announced two slightly different squads for their forthcoming visit to Nepal, where they will play a League 2 ODI tri-series against the hosts and Namibia, followed by a T20I series...
View ArticleDutch domestic competition stays the same – for now
Fifteen or so years ago there was a storm in a KNCB general meeting about a Board decision to promote Kampong Utrecht into the top women’s division on the grounds of the strength of their playing...
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Malaysia escape with narrow 2-1 victory over Hong Kong in One Day Series
Hong Kong needed just seven runs to win in the final over of the Men’s One Day Series. But after Malaysia’s skipper Virandeep Singh restricted the home side to just four – and managed a wicket in...
View ArticleJapan pair post record Men’s T20I opening stand in win over China
Japan captain Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming and fellow opening batter Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake have re-written the record books in Hong Kong, posting the highest opening stand in Men’s T20Is, in their East Asia...
View ArticleSeattle’s Wayne Parnell ready to “make new memories and moments of...
All six Major League Cricket teams announced their retained overseas players on Thursday. The inaugural champion MI New York lead all teams with 7 returnees in captain Kieron Pollard, Trent Boult,...
View ArticleRampant Nepal outclass disappointing Dutch
Nepal have beaten the Netherlands in the past – once in an ODI – but never with the conviction and comprehensiveness with which they swept their opponents aside at the Tribhuvan University Ground in...
View ArticleSix-for Dutt spearheads a Dutch revival
A career-best – and Dutch ODI record – haul of six for 34 by 20-year-old off-spinner Aryan Dutt and a maiden half-century for opener Michael Levitt were the basis of a solid recovery by the Netherlands...
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Challenge League Play-off Long Read: Eight-team tournament to decide...
Kuala Lumpur: The final four spots to complete the line-up of teams in the pathway system for the Men’s Cricket World Cup 2027 are up for grabs in Malaysia over the next two weeks, via the eight-team...
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Hong Kong go undefeated in East Asia Cup, head to Qatar for Bilateral Series
The Hong Kong men, for years, expressed a desire for more exposure to international competition. By February’s end, the squad will have competed in 13 international contests in the month alone. In a...
View ArticleScholtz and Erasmus bowl Namibia to victory
Namibia completed their opening League 2 skirmish with a third victory at Tribhuvan University on Friday, beating the Netherlands by 24 runs in a hard-fought duel and ensuring that they will end the...
View ArticleSingh and Engelbrecht see the Dutch home
An unbroken third-wicket stand of 102 between Vikram Singh and Sybrand Engelbrecht saw the Netherlands to an eight-wicket victory over Nepal in the final match of the League 2 tri-series in Kirtipur...
View ArticleIreland eye first Test win over Afghanistan
They were almost twins. Young cricket nations with not much between them. But then the dynamic changes. There would be tussles. The occasional cry of foul play. Mohammad Nabi maybe not quite inside the...
View ArticleVan der Merwe has the last word
What had for the most part been an unremitting slugfest at the Tribhuvan University ground on Wednesday was redeemed by a final over of quite remarkable tension, as Roelof van der Merwe had the final...
View ArticleLevitt century sets up big Dutch win over Namibia
The year wasn’t the only thing leaping at the Tribhuvan University ground on Thursday: the Netherlands’ opener Michael Levitt, with some help from Sybrand Engelbrecht, leapt into the record books and...
View ArticleIreland men inch their way to history
At the very end it was equal parts painful and beautiful. Ireland Test captain Andrew Balbirnie was batting like his life depended on it. Throw in technical deficiency, form, age, pressure and one of...
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The high-stakes Battle of Bangi ahead of Italy and Vanuatu as three others...
Kuala Lumpur: It’s been dubbed the US$795,000 match at UKM Oval. Italy face Vanuatu in a one-off battle for the final Challenge League spot on the road to the 2027 Cricket World Cup. Whilst the figure...
View ArticleNepal’s bowlers run through lack-lustre Dutch
It was hard to believe that it was essentially the same Dutch side which had hammered 247 off the Namibian attack the day before, or indeed that it was the same Tribhuvan University ground which had...
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