2025 Hong Kong Quadrangular Series

2025 Hong Kong Quadrangular Series

Dates	9 – 13 April 2025
Administrator(s)	Cricket Hong Kong, China
Cricket format	Twenty20 International
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and final
Host(s)	Hong Kong
Champions	Kuwait
Runners-up	Nepal
Participants	4
Matches	8
Player of the series	Anshuman Rath
Most runs	Anshuman Rath (248)
Most wickets	Mohammed Irshad (8)
← 2023

The 2025 Hong Kong Quadrangular Series was a cricket series that took place in Hong Kong in April 2025. ^[1] It was a quadrangular series involving Hong Kong, Kuwait, Nepal and Qatar men's cricket teams, with the matches played as Twenty20 International (T20I) fixtures. ^[2] All of the matches were played at the Mission Road Ground in Mong Kok. ^[3] The tournament was played in a single round-robin format with the top two teams qualifying for the final. ^[4]

Squads

Hong Kong [5]	Kuwait [6]	Nepal [7]	Qatar [8]
Yasim Murtaza (c) Babar Hayat (vc) Zeeshan Ali (wk) Waqas Barkat Kalhan Challu Ateeq Iqbal Aizaz Khan Ehsan Khan Nizakat Khan Nasrulla Rana Anshuman Rath Ayush Shukla Darsh Vora Shahid Wasif (wk)	Mohammed Aslam (c) Ilyas Ahmed Mirza Ahmed Clinto Anto Meet Bhavsar Anudeep Chenthamara Nimish Lathief Usman Patel (wk) Yasin Patel Naveenraj Rajendran Ravija Sandaruwan Mohamed Shafeeq Bilal Tahir Muhammad Umar	Rohit Paudel (c) Dipendra Singh Airee Basir Ahamad Shahab Alam Lokesh Bam Kushal Bhurtel Rijan Dhakal Gulsan Jha Sompal Kami Karan KC Kushal Malla Lalit Rajbanshi Aasif Sheikh (wk) Nandan Yadav	Ikramullah Khan (c) Mohammad Abrar Bukhar Illikkal Mohammed Irshad Muhammad Jabir Shahzaib Jamil (wk) Jassim Khan Bipin Kumar Mujeeb-ur-Rehman Arumugaganesh Nagarajan Rifayi Theruvath

Round-robin

Points table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Qualification
1	Nepal	3	2	0	1	5	1.088	Advanced to the final
2	Kuwait	3	2	1	0	4	1.797
3	Hong Kong	3	1	1	1	3	1.377	Advanced to the 3rd place play-off
4	Qatar	3	0	3	0	0	−3.437

Source: ESPNcricinfo ^[9]

Fixtures

9 April 2025 09:00 Scorecard

Qatar   151/5 (20 overs)	v	Nepal 154/2 (17 overs)
Ikramullah Khan 54 (54) Lalit Rajbanshi 1/12 (2 overs)		Kushal Bhurtel 38 (19) Mujeeb-ur-Rehman 2/12 (3 overs)

Nepal won by 8 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Tabarak Dar (HK) and Ramasamy Venkatesh (HK) Player of the match: Kushal Bhurtel (Nep)

• Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
• Nandan Yadav (Nep) and Mohammad Abrar (Qat) both made their T20I debuts.

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9 April 2025 13:30 Scorecard

Hong Kong   175/5 (20 overs)	v	Kuwait 180/6 (19 overs)
Anshuman Rath 76 (48) Mohamed Shafeeq 2/22 (3 overs)		Mohammed Aslam 55 (29) Yasim Murtaza 3/41 (4 overs)

Kuwait won by 4 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Shelton D'Cruz (HK) and John Prakash (HK) Player of the match: Mohammed Aslam (Kuw)

• Kuwait won the toss and elected to field.
• Kalhan Challu (HK) and Anudeep Chenthamara (Kuw) both made their T20I debuts.
• Babar Hayat (HK) scored his 2000th run in T20Is. ^[10]

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10 April 2025 09:00 Scorecard

Kuwait   185/8 (20 overs)	v	Nepal 186/4 (18.5 overs)
Clinto Anto 41 (30) Sompal Kami 3/36 (4 overs)		Kushal Bhurtel 81 (50) Yasin Patel 2/17 (4 overs)

Nepal won by 6 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: John Prakash (HK) and Ramasamy Venkatesh (HK) Player of the match: Kushal Bhurtel (Nep)

• Nepal won the toss and elected to field.

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10 April 2025 13:30 Scorecard

Hong Kong   197/7 (20 overs)	v	Qatar 129 (19.1 overs)
Anshuman Rath 58 (42) Mohammed Irshad 4/24 (3 overs)		Shahzaib Jamil 37 (22) Waqas Barkat 4/18 (4 overs)

Hong Kong won by 68 runs Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Tabarak Dar (HK) and Shelton D'Cruz (HK) Player of the match: Waqas Barkat (HK)

• Qatar won the toss and elected to field.
• Darsh Vora (HK) made his T20I debut.

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12 April 2025 09:00 Scorecard

Qatar   124 (19.3 overs)	v	Kuwait 127/4 (10 overs)
Shahzaib Jamil 34 (35) Anudeep Chenthamara 3/15 (3 overs)		Clinto Anto 72 (28) Mohammed Irshad 3/10 (2 overs)

Kuwait won by 6 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Niaz Ali (HK) and John Prakash (HK) Player of the match: Clinto Anto (Kuw)

• Kuwait won the toss and elected to field.
• Naveenraj Rajendran (Kuw) made his T20I debut.

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12 April 2025 13:30 Scorecard

Hong Kong   68/3 (9 overs)	v	Nepal
Zeeshan Ali 30 (22) Lalit Rajbanshi 2/19 (3 overs)

No result Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Tabarak Dar (HK) and Shelton D'Cruz (HK)

• Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
• Rain prevented any further play.

3rd place play-off

13 April 2025 09:00 Scorecard

Hong Kong   188/6 (20 overs)	v	Qatar 187/5 (20 overs)
Anshuman Rath 97 (60) Muhammad Jabir 2/29 (4 overs)		Ikramullah Khan 55 (35) Yasim Murtaza 2/40 (2 overs)

Hong Kong won by 1 run Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Shelton J D'Cruz (HK) and John Prakash (HK) Player of the match: Anshuman Rath (HK)

• Qatar won the toss and elected to field.

Final

13 April 2025 13:30 Scorecard

Kuwait   174/7 (20 overs)	v	Nepal 171 (19.3 overs)
Ravija Sandaruwan 63 (36) Sompal Kami 2/26 (4 overs)		Basir Ahamad 80 (43) Anudeep Chenthamara 3/18 (2.3 overs)

Kuwait won by 3 runs Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Tabarak Dar (HK) and Ramasamy Venkatesh (HK) Player of the match: Anudeep Chenthamara (Kuw)

• Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
• Ravija Sandaruwan (Kuw) scored his 2,000th run in T20Is.

References

1. "Cricket Hong Kong, China and India Club Presents the Hong Kong Men's T20I Series 2025". Cricket Hong Kong, China. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
2. "Cricket Hong Kong to host Men's Quaddrangular T20I tournament in April 2025". Czarsportz. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
3. "Nepal to play Hong Kong series as favourites". The Kathmandu Post. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
4. "Nepal Set to Play Quadrangular Series in Hong Kong as Favorites". Nepal Monitor. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
5. "Hong Kong, China Squad and Broadcast Information for "Cricket Hong Kong, China and India Club Presents Hong Kong T20I Series 2025"". Cricket Hong Kong, China. Retrieved 8 April 2025.
6. "Kuwait National Men's Team is all set for Hong Kong Men's T20I Series 2025". Kuwait Cricket. Retrieved 7 April 2025– via Facebook.
7. "Nepal announces squad for Quadrangular series in Hong Kong". Cricnepal. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
8. "Hong Kong Men's T20I Series 2025". Qatar Cricket Association. Retrieved 9 April 2025– via Instagram.
9. "Quadrangular Twenty20 Series (Hong Kong) - Points Table". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
10. @CricketHK (9 April 2025). "Let's applaud Babar Hayat as he smashes away and crosses a milestone of 2000 T20I Runs during the Hong Kong Men's T20I Series 2025" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

External links

• Quadrangular Twenty20 Series (Hong Kong) 2025 at ESPNcricinfo