List of Hong Kong ODI cricketers

A view of the playing area of the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Hong Kong played its first ODI against Bangladesh at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground (pictured), in the 2004 Asia Cup in Sri Lanka.

A One Day International (ODI) is an international cricket match between two representative teams, each having ODI status, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC).[1] An ODI differs from Test matches in that the number of overs per team is limited, and that each team has only one innings.[2] As of September 2018, 41 players have represented the Hong Kong national team in ODIs, since its debut in 2004.[3] Many of these players are of South Asian origin, a demographic which comprises only a small fraction of the overall population of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong gained ODI status in its own right following the 2014 World Cup Qualifier, but had previously been accorded ODI status twice on a temporary basis, when it participated in the Asia Cup.[n 1] The team's first ODI came against Bangladesh in the 2004 Asia Cup, with the team then playing one further match in that competition, against Pakistan. At the 2008 Asia Cup, Hong Kong again played two matches, against Pakistan and India, although it lost heavily in all matches played.[4] After gaining full ODI status in 2014, the team's first matches in that format came in the 2014 ACC Premier League tournament, against Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Hong Kong did not win an ODI until its tenth match, in November 2015, when it defeated the UAE by 89 runs as part of the World Cricket League Championship.[5]

Hong Kong lost their ODI status in March 2018 after finishing 10th and last in the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. They did, however, play two further ODI matches at the 2018 Asia Cup in September 2018 after winning the 2018 Asia Cup Qualifier, as the ICC announced that all matches played at the finals would have ODI status.[6] This list includes all players who have played at least one ODI match and is initially arranged in the order of debut appearance. Where more than one player won their first cap in the same match, those players are initially listed alphabetically at the time of debut.

  1. ^ a b "ICC Classification of Official Cricket" (PDF). International Cricket Council (ICC): 2. 1 October 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 November 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Standard One-Day International Match Playing Conditions" (PDF). ICC. 1 October 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  3. ^ "Hong Kong Players by Caps". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 18 November 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  4. ^ "One-Day International Matches played by Hong Kong". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 18 November 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  5. ^ Andrew Nixon (16 November 2015). "Chapman stars as Hong Kong beat UAE" Archived 17 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine – Cricket Europe. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  6. ^ "ICC awards Asia Cup ODI status". International Cricket Council. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.


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