The Hong Kong national cricket team is one of the associate members of the International Cricket Council (ICC). They qualified for the their maiden T20 World Cup in 2014 after finishing sixth in the 2013 qualifier. [1] They managed to qualify for the next edition in 2016, but have not reached the global stage since then. They managed to defeat a full-member team, Bangladesh in their debut campaign.
Hong Kong did not make it past the first round in both of their appearances. They have an overall win–loss record of 1–5 from 6 matches.
ICC T20 World Cup record | Qualification record [a] | ||||||||||||||
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Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Ab [b] | Captain | Pld | W | L | T | NR | |
2007 | Did not qualify | Did not participate | |||||||||||||
2009 | |||||||||||||||
2010 | |||||||||||||||
2012 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
2014 | First stage | 15/16 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Jamie Atkinson | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
2016 | First stage | 16/16 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Tanwir Afzal | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
2021 | Did not qualify | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
2022 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
2024 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
2026 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
Total | 0 Titles | 2/9 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 58 | 31 | 25 | 0 | 2 |
Opponent | M | W | L | T+W | T+L | NR | Ab | Win % | First played |
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Afghanistan | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 2014 |
Bangladesh | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 2014 |
Nepal | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 2014 |
Scotland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 2016 |
Zimbabwe | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 2016 |
Total | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16.67 | - |
Source: [2] Last Updated: 12 March 2016 | |||||||||
First round (Group A) | Super 10 | Semifinal | Final | Overall Result | ||||||
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | |||
Nepal L by 80 runs | Afghanistan L by 7 wickets | Zimbabwe W by 2 wickets | 4 | Did not advance | First round | |||||
Source: ESPNcricinfo [3] |
First round (Group B) | Super 10 | Semifinal | Final | Overall Result | ||||||
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | |||
Zimbabwe L by 14 runs | Afghanistan L by 6 wickets | Scotland L by 8 wickets (DLS) | 4 | Did not advance | First round | |||||
Source: ESPNcricinfo [4] |
Score | Opponent | Venue | Season |
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153/8 (20 overs) | Afghanistan | Chattogram | 2014 |
144/6 (20 overs) | Zimbabwe | Nagpur | 2016 |
127/7 (20 overs) | Scotland | Nagpur | 2016 |
116/6 (20 overs) | Afghanistan | Nagpur | 2016 |
114/8 (19.4 overs) | Bangladesh | Chattogram | 2014 |
Last updated: 12 March 2016 [5] |
This list consists players with most number of matches at the T20 World Cup.
Matches | Player | Period | ||||
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6 | Jamie Atkinson | 2014-2016 | ||||
Babar Hayat | 2014-2016 | |||||
Mark Chapman | 2014-2016 | |||||
Nadeem Ahmed | 2014-2016 | |||||
Nizakat Khan | 2014-2016 | |||||
Tanwir Afzal | 2014-2016 | |||||
Last updated: 12 March 2016 [6] |
Runs | Player | Mat | Inn | HS | Avg | 100s | 50s | Period |
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126 | Jamie Atkinson | 6 | 6 | 53 | 21.00 | — | 1 | 2014–2016 |
123 | Mark Chapman | 6 | 6 | 40 | 20.50 | — | — | 2014–2016 |
62 | Anshuman Rath | 3 | 3 | 28* | 31.00 | — | — | 2016–2016 |
50 | Waqas Barkat | 3 | 3 | 32 | 16.66 | — | — | 2014–2014 |
Babar Hayat | 6 | 6 | 20 | 8.33 | — | — | 2014–2016 | |
Last updated: 12 March 2016 [7] |
Runs | Players | Opposition | Venue | Season |
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60 (3rd wicket) | Waqas Barkat (23) & Mark Chapman (30) | v Afghanistan | Chattogram | 2014 |
49 (4th wicket) | Mark Chapman (26) & Anshuman Rath (21) | v Scotland | Nagpur | 2016 |
42 (2nd wicket) | Waqas Barkat (9) & Jamie Atkinson (31) | v Afghanistan | Chattogram | 2014 |
40 (1st wicket) | Ryan Campbell (27) & Jamie Atkinson (7) | v Afghanistan | Nagpur | 2016 |
34 (2nd wicket) | Irfan Ahmed (26) & Jamie Atkinson (7) | v Bangladesh | Chattogram | 2014 |
Last updated: 12 March 2016 [8] |
Wickets | Player | Matches | Avg. | Econ. | BBI | 4W | 5W | Period |
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9 | Nadeem Ahmed | 6 | 15.44 | 6.78 | 4/21 | 1 | 0 | 2014–2016 |
5 | Tanwir Afzal | 6 | 21.80 | 6.41 | 2/19 | 0 | 0 | 2014–2016 |
4 | Aizaz Khan | 5 | 29.75 | 7.93 | 2/33 | 0 | 0 | 2014–2016 |
Haseeb Amjad | 5 | 34.25 | 9.13 | 3/25 | 0 | 0 | 2014–2016 | |
3 | Nizakat Khan | 6 | 14.00 | 7.00 | 3/19 | 0 | 0 | 2014–2016 |
Last updated: 12 March 2016 [9] |
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