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The Malaya cricket team was a team that represented the combined territories of the Federated Malay States and the Straits Settlements in various international cricket matches between 1906 and 1961.

Federated Malay States

The Federated Malay States (FMS) was a federation of four protected states in the Malay Peninsula—Selangor, Perak, Negeri Sembilan and Pahang—established by the British government in 1895, which lasted until 1946, when they, together with two of the former Straits Settlements and the Unfederated Malay States, formed the Malayan Union. Two years later, the Union became the Federation of Malaya and finally Malaysia in 1963 with the inclusion of North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore.

Straits Settlements former group of British territories located in Southeast Asia

The Straits Settlements were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia. Originally established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Company, the Straits Settlements came under direct British control as a Crown colony on 1 April 1867. The colony was dissolved in 1946 as part of the British reorganisation of its Southeast Asian dependencies following the end of the Second World War.

Cricket Team sport played with bats and balls

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 20-metre (22-yard) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at the wicket with the bat, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this and dismiss each player. Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground. When ten players have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee in international matches. They communicate with two off-field scorers who record the match's statistical information.

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History

Early days

Singapore cricket club is the oldest cricket club in the region (founded in 1852) Cricket has been played in Peninsular Malaysia since at least the 1850s. [1] The first match between the Federated Malay States and Straits Settlements was played in 1905 [2] and the combined Malaya team first played the following year, against Burma in Yangon, though the result is not known. Two matches were played against Australia in 1909. [1]

Peninsular Malaysia mainland, western portion of the nation-state of Malaysia in South East Asia

Peninsular Malaysia, also known as Malaya or West Malaysia, is the part of Malaysia which lies on the Malay Peninsula and surrounding islands. Its area is 132,265 square kilometres (51,068 sq mi), which is nearly 40% of the total area of the country - or slightly bigger than England and South Korea. It shares a land border with Thailand in the north. To the south is the island of Singapore.

The Federated Malay States cricket team was a team that represented the Federated Malay States in international cricket matches between 1905 and 1940. Cricket has been played in Peninsular Malaysia since the 1880s, and the Federated Malay States usually combined with the Straits Settlements cricket team to form the Malaya cricket team. Indeed, of their 37 recorded matches, only one was not against the Straits Settlements.

The Straits Settlements cricket team was the team that represented the Straits Settlements in international cricket matches between 1890 and 1940.

Beginning in 1920, Malaya replaced the Straits Settlements in a regular series of Interport matches against Hong Kong. [1] In November of that year, they traveled to Hong Kong, playing matches against Hong Kong and Shanghai. [3] They beat Hong Kong by 35 runs, [4] but lost to Shanghai by an innings and 140 runs. [5] Following these two matches, they joined forces with the Shanghai team to lose to Hong Kong by five wickets. [6] The visit was repeated in November 1924, [7] with Malaya losing to Shanghai by 89 runs [8] and to Hong Kong by 2 wickets. [9] They played Hong Kong at home in 1926, beating them by an innings and 112 runs on the Padang in Singapore. [10]

Interport matches

Interport matches refer to a series of cricket matches which took place in Asia from 1866 to 1987, between Ceylon, the Federated Malay States, Hong Kong, Malaya, Malaysia, Shanghai, Singapore and the Straits Settlements.

Hong Kong East Asian city

Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and commonly abbreviated as HK, is a special administrative region on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in southern China. With over 7.4 million people of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the world's fourth most densely populated region.

The Shanghai cricket team was a cricket team that played various international matches between 1866 and 1948. The team was organised by the Shanghai Cricket Club. With cricket in the rest of China almost non-existent, for that period they were the de facto Chinese national side.

In June 1927, Australia, captained by Bert Oldfield, visited Malaya, and the Malayan side won the first match by 39 runs, their only win against a Test-playing nation. [11] A third visit to Hong Kong was made in November that year, [12] with Malaya losing by an innings to Shanghai [13] and Hong Kong. [14] In 1929, they lost to Shanghai by 1 wicket, [15] and to Hong Kong by four wickets. [16] The final visit in 1933 saw Malaya beat Hong Kong by 14 runs, [17] before gaining their first win over Shanghai by beating them by 50 runs. [18]

Bert Oldfield cricketer

William Albert Stanley "Bert" Oldfield was an Australian cricket player. He played for New South Wales and the Australian cricket team as wicket-keeper.

Later matches

Little is known of Malaya's matches after World War II. The two results that are known are that Malaya beat Hong Kong by 1 wicket in December 1959, [1] and drew with the MCC in March 1961. [19]

World War II 1939–1945 global war

World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. A state of total war emerged, directly involving more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. The major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.

Marylebone Cricket Club english Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's cricket ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London, England. The club was formerly the governing body of cricket in England and Wales and, as the sport's legislator, held considerable global influence.

Players

The following players played for Malaya and also played first-class cricket:

First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each although, in practice, a team might play only one innings or none at all.

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John Dunn was an English first-class cricketer who played with Surrey and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). He also played cricket for Hong Kong later in his career.

Arthur Benison Hubback was an English architect and soldier who designed several important buildings in British Malaya. He was active in sports, especially football and cricket. Hubback was promoted to brigadier general during his service in the British Army.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Encyclopaedia of World Cricket by Roy Morgan, Sports Books Publishing
  2. ↑ Scorecard of Federated Malay States v Straits Settlements, 4 February 1905 at CricketArchive
  3. ↑ Interport matches 1920/21 at CricketArchive
  4. ↑ Scorecard of Hong Kong v Malaya, 9 November 1920 at CricketArchive
  5. ↑ Scorecard of Shanghai v Malaya, 12 November 1920 at CricketArchive
  6. ↑ Scorecard of Hong Kong v Shanghai and Malaya
  7. ↑ Interport matches, 1924/25 at CricketArchive
  8. ↑ Scorecard of Shanghai v Malaya, 16 November 1924 at CricketArchive
  9. ↑ Scorecard of Hong Kong v Malaya, 18 November 1924 at CricketArchive
  10. ↑ Scorecard of Malaya v Hong Kong, 28 May 1926 at CricketArchive
  11. ↑ History of Malaysian cricket
  12. ↑ Interport matches 1927/28 at CricketArchive
  13. ↑ Scorecard of Shanghai v Malaya, 23 November 1927 at CricketArchive
  14. ↑ Scorecard of Hong Kong v Malaya, 27 November 1927 at CricketArchive
  15. ↑ Scorecard of Shanghai v Malaya, 5 November 1929 at CricketArchive
  16. ↑ Scorecard of Hong Kong v Malaya, 13 November 1929 at CricketArchive
  17. ↑ Scorecard of Hong Kong v Malaya, 6 November 1933 at CricketArchive
  18. ↑ Scorecard of Shanghai v Malaya, 15 November 1933 at CricketArchive
  19. ↑ Scorecard of Malaya v MCC, 18 March 1961 at CricketArchive
  20. ↑ Gerald Livock at CricketArchive
  21. ↑ Robert Phayre at CricketArchive
  22. ↑ Alfred Hill at CricketArchive
  23. ↑ Edward Armitage at CricketArchive
  24. ↑ Neville Foster at CricketArchive
  25. ↑ Charles Congdon at CricketArchive
  26. ↑ Robert Bradell at CricketArchive
  27. ↑ Herbert Hopkins at CricketArchive
  28. ↑ Lall Singh at CricketArchive
  29. ↑ William Smith at CricketArchive
  30. ↑ Victor Croome at CricketArchive
  31. 1 2 "Thomas Hart". Cricket Archive. 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
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