The Hong Kong national football team represents Hong Kong in international football and is controlled by the Football Association of Hong Kong,China,the governing body for football in Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong national cricket team is the team that represents Hong Kong in international competition. It played its first match in 1866 and has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1969.
Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong is a British international school located in Pudong,Shanghai,China. Located 10 miles (16 km) east of the Shanghai city centre,it caters to expatriate children from Toddler to Year 13.
The Singapore national cricket team is the team that represents Singapore in international cricket. Singapore has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1974,and was a founding member of the Asian Cricket Council formed in 1983.
The China national cricket team is the team that represents China in international cricket. The team was organised by the Chinese Cricket Association,which became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2004 and an associate member in 2017. China did not make its debut in international cricket until the 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge,although the Shanghai Cricket Club had previously acted as a de facto national side,from 1866 playing interport matches against international teams. China has since participated in several other Asian Cricket Council (ACC) tournaments,as well as at the 2010 and 2014 Asian Games cricket events. Hong Kong and Taiwan both field separate teams in international cricket.
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.
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.
Cricket Hong Kong is the official governing body of the sport of cricket in Hong Kong. Its current headquarters is in So Kon Po,Causeway Bay. Established as the Hong Kong Cricket Association in 1968,CHK is Hong Kong's representative at the International Cricket Council and is an associate member having been admitted as a member of that body since 1969. It is also a member of the Asian Cricket Council.
The Hong Kong–Shanghai Inter Club Championship was an annual football challenge match between two clubs representing Hong Kong and Shanghai. It was established in its most recent format in 2005 and folded in 2015.
The SS Bokhara was a P&O steamship which sank in a typhoon on 10 October 1892,off the coast of Sand Island in the Pescadores,Formosa. Of the 150 people who perished,eleven were members of the Hong Kong cricket team.
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.
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.
Marcus Peter Stoinis is an Australian cricketer who plays limited overs cricket for the Australian national team. He is contracted to Western Australia and Melbourne Stars domestically,and has previously also played for Perth Scorchers and Victoria as an all rounder. Stoinis was a member of the Australian team that won the 2021 T20 World Cup.
Association of China and Mongolia International Schools is a non-profit association of international schools in eastern Asia and comprises over fifty international schools from China,Hong Kong,Macau,Taiwan and Mongolia. The association acts as a networking platform with the aims to broaden the education dimensions of participating schools,advance the professional growth of school staff members,promote international friendship within the schools through activities,encourage student interaction through extra curricular activities in sports,the arts,and environmental issues,and finally collaborate on the professional development of participating members.
Hong Kong Airport Services Limited(HAS) was founded in 1995 and began operations in July 1998 with the opening of Chek Lap Kok International Airport. It employs approximately 3,100 people and owns a fleet of over 3,000 ground-support equipment and vehicles. It is a totally owned subsidiary of Cathay Pacific,with offices located at Cathay City,Cathay House,Passenger Terminal Building and Cathay Pacific Cargo Terminal.
Cricket has been played in Hong Kong since at least 1841. Like most cricketing nations,it was part of the British Empire. The national cricket team has been active since 1866,and the Hong Kong Cricket Association was granted associate membership of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1969. The national team have played four matches with One Day International status,but have never been granted Test match status. Each year,Hong Kong hosts the Hong Kong Cricket Sixes,an ICC sanctioned event that features teams of six players in a six over competition.
Mission Road Ground or Tin Kwong Road Recreation Ground is a multi-purpose sports field on Tin Kwong Road in Kau Pui Lung,Kowloon,Hong Kong,which is mainly used for cricket matches. It was opened in 1976,and the first match played there was between a Hong Kong XI and the Queensland Colts.
Ernest James de Veuille Coxon was an English first-class cricketer.
The Hong Kong cricket team toured Malaysia in February 2020 to play a five-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series,known as the Interport T20 Series. All the matches were played at the Kinrara Academy Oval,Kuala Lumpur. The series marked the return of the 154-year-old tradition of contests known as 'Interport' matches,a term historically used to refer to matches played between various British settlements in Southeast Asia,such as Hong Kong and Malaysia. The series was originally scheduled to be played at the Mission Road Ground in Mong Kok,Hong Kong,but was cancelled in early February due to the coronavirus pandemic in China.
