The Hong Kong men's cricket team, officially Hong Kong, China, represents Hong Kong in international cricket competitions. It played its first match in 1866Chronology of Hong Kong cricket and has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1969.Hong Kong at CricketArchive
Hong Kong played its first One Day Internationals in the 2004 Asia Cup,List of Hong Kong ODIs at CricketArchive and in January 2014 was granted ODI status until 2018, as a result of finishing third in the 2014 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. The team gained Twenty20 International status in November 2013, as a result of qualifying for the 2014 ICC World Twenty20. Hong Kong lost their ODI status in March 2018 after losing to the Netherlands in a play-off match during 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.
Hong Kong has played in every ICC Trophy/World Cup Qualifier tournament, with the exceptions of the 1979 and 2005 editions.ICC Trophy matches played by Hong Kong at CricketArchive It has also taken part in two ICC Intercontinental Cup tournaments, in 20052005 ICC Intercontinental Cup at CricketEurope and in 2015–17, and in two ICC T20 World Cup tournaments, in 2014 and 2016.
In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Hong Kong and other ICC members after 1 January 2019 have the full T20I status.
History Early years
The sport was introduced to Hong Kong by the British, with the first recorded game taking place in 1841, and the Hong Kong Cricket Club being founded ten years later. The Cricket Club (playing as Hong Kong) played a number of Interport matches against sides on the Chinese mainland, the first taking place against Shanghai in 1866, and in 1890 played Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) for the first time.
1892 saw disaster when the , which was carrying the team back from Shanghai, sank in a typhoon with the loss of 125 lives. There were only 23 survivors, which included only 2 of the 13 team members. The other 11 members of the team were lost, including Surrey cricketer John Dunn.Sinking of the SS Bokhara, Hong Kong Cricket Association official site
1948 saw the last game against Shanghai.Jack Chegwyn led the first international team to Hong Kong in 1952, and the first tour by an MCC team was in 1966. The MCC, captained by Mike Smith played one match against the national side, winning by 74 runs.Scorecard of Hong Kong v MCC, 19 March 1966 at CricketArchive In 1969 the Hong Kong Cricket Association became an associate member of the International Cricket Council, cricket's global ruling body.
ICC membership
The year after gaining ICC membership, the Hong Kong national side played against an MCC side captained by Tony Lewis, drawing the game,Scorecard of Hong Kong v MCC, 15 March 1970 at CricketArchive but it was not until the 1982 ICC Trophy when the Hong Kong team next played. At that tournament the Hong Kong team, which featured future England Test cricketer Dermot Reeve, failed to progress beyond the first round.
Hong Kong took part in the following three ICC Trophy tournaments, again failing to progress beyond the first round in 1986,1986 ICC Trophy at Cricinfo reaching the plate competition in 19901990 ICC Trophy at Cricinfo and the second round in 1994.1994 ICC Trophy at Cricinfo They then played in the inaugural ACC Trophy tournament in 1996, failing to progress beyond the group stage after losing to Bangladesh and Fiji.1996 ACC Trophy at CricketEurope
In 1997, Hong Kong returned to Chinese control. In the same year, the national team finished eighth in the ICC Trophy.1997 ICC Trophy at Cricinfo They played in the ACC Trophy again in 1998, losing to Malaysia in the semi-finals.1998 ACC Trophy at CricketEurope
21st century 2000–2009
In 2000, Hong Kong reached the final of the ACC Trophy, where they lost to the United Arab Emirates.2000 ACC Trophy at CricketEurope Nonetheless, this earned them qualification for the 2002 Asia Cup (which was subsequently moved to 2004), and thus their first taste of One Day International cricket.
Hong Kong fared poorly in the 2001 ICC Trophy, going out in the group stage having achieved only one win, against Papua New Guinea.2001 ICC Trophy at Cricinfo In 2002, they reached the semi-finals of the ACC Trophy, again losing to the United Arab Emirates.2002 ACC Trophy at CricketEurope
At the 2004 Asia Cup, held in Sri Lanka, Hong Kong were drawn alongside Test nations Bangladesh and Pakistan. They lost both matches heavily, despite restricting Bangladesh to 221/9 in the first match.2004 Asia Cup points table at CricketArchive
Also in 2004, Hong Kong failed to progress beyond the first round of the ACC Trophy after losing in the group stages to Oman and Bahrain, missing out on qualification for the 2005 ICC Trophy in Ireland.2005 ICC Trophy official website – Asian qualifying They also reached the final of the ACC Fast Track Countries Tournament, losing to the United Arab Emirates. Hong Kong played in the Intercontinental Cup for the first time in 2005. They lost to the UAE and drew with Nepal, failing to reach the semi-finals. They finished last in the fast-track nations tournament the same year.2005/06 Fast-track nations tournament at Asian Cricket Council official website
In 2006, Hong Kong again lost to the United Arab Emirates in the final of the ACC Trophy,2006 ACC Trophy at CricketEurope and finished fourth in the ACC Premier League.2006/07 ACC Premier League at CricketEurope The following year, they travelled to Darwin, Australia to take part in Division Three of the World Cricket League, finishing fifth,2007 ICC World Cricket League Division Three at CricketEurope relegating them to Division Four for 2008.Uganda lift Division Three title by Andrew Nixon, 2 June 2007 at CricketEurope
In October/November 2007, Hong Kong took part in the inaugural ACC Twenty20 Cup held in Kuwait, where they played in Group B against the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Hong Kong finished 4th in their group and failed to make to the semi-finals stage.
In June 2008, Hong Kong took part in the Asia Cup in Pakistan. They failed to progress beyond the group stage to the Super Four stage, as they lost both of their group A matches against India and Pakistan convincingly.
In October 2008, Hong Kong travelled to Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania to participate in Division Four of the World Cricket League. Hong Kong won four group matches against; Fiji, Italy, Jersey and the hosts but lost twice to Afghanistan in their group match and the Final. Hong Kong's top two finish resulted in their promotion back to Division Three.
2010–present
In 2011 they hosted the Division Three and won it defeating Papua New Guinea in the finals to qualify for Division Two to be held in the United Arab Emirates. Then in Division Two they came 4th qualifying as HPP member and for 2014 Cricket World Cup Qualifier in New Zealand. .
In 2013 the UAE hosted the ICC T20 Qualifier where Hong Kong came 6th by beating Papua New Guinea and just enough to qualify for ICC T20 World Cup 2014 held in Bangladesh.
In 2014, New Zealand hosted the ICC 50 over world cup qualifier where Hong Kong came third place despite not qualifying for 2015 ICC cricket world cup, they still achieved an ODI status with Papua New Guinea.
In March 2014 Hong Kong beat the host Bangladesh in the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 by two wickets with two balls remaining but could not make it to the next stage of super 10 having lost the two earlier matches to Afghanistan and Nepal
Hong Kong first ODI win against a full member came on 8 March 2018 defeating Afghanistan in 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier.
Grounds
Tournament history Legend
Promoted Remained in the same division Relegated
Cricket World Cup Cricket World Cup recordQualification recordYearRoundPosition 1975Not invited No qualifiers held 1979 Did not enterDid not enter 1983 Did not qualify72302 1987 83500 1992 85300 1996 73400 1999 73301 2003 51400 2007 31200 2011 168800 2015 21111000 2019 209902 2023 159501 2027159402 Total 0/14 – – – – – 132 64 60 0 8
Cricket World Cup Qualifier Cricket World Cup Qualifier recordYearRoundPosition 1979Did not participate 1982 Group stage 8/16 7 2 3 0 2 DNQ 1986 Group stage 8/16 8 3 5 0 0 DNQ 1990 Plate round 11/17 8 5 3 0 0 DNQ 1994 Second round 8/20 7 3 4 0 0 DNQ 1997 Second round 8/22 7 3 3 0 1 DNQ 2001 Group stage 9/24 5 1 4 0 0 DNQ 2005 Did not qualify 2009 2014 Super Sixes 3/10 9 6 3 0 0 DNQ 2018 Playoffs 10/10 6 1 5 0 0 DNQ 2023 Did not qualify 2027 To be determined Total 0 Titles 8/12 57 24 30 0 3
Men's T20 World Cup
Men's T20 World Cup recordQualification recordYearRoundPosition 2007 Not eligible Not eligible 2009 2010 2012 Did not qualify 15 8 7 0 0 2014 First stage 15/16 3 1 2 0 0 14 9 5 0 0 2016 First stage 16/16 3 0 3 0 0 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 2028 To be determined To be determinedTotal0 Titles2/106150058312502
T20 World Cup Qualifier T20 World Cup Qualifier recordYearRoundPosition 2008Not eligible 2010 2012Play-offs11/1694500DNQ 2013Quarter-finals6/16107300QSemi-finals4/1694302Q 2019Play-offs8/1473400DNQ 2022Play-offs6/852300DNQ 2028To be determined Total 0 Titles 5/8 40 20 18 0 2
Asia Cup Asia Cup recordYearRoundPosition 1984 No qualification 1986 1988 1991 1995 1997 2000 2004Group stage6/620200 2008Group stage6/620200 2010No qualification 2012 2014 2016Did not qualify 2018Group stage5/620200 2022Group stage6/620200 2023Did not qualify 2025Group stage7/830300 Total 0 Titles 5/17 11 0 11 0 0
Asian Games Asian Games recordYearRoundPosition 2010Quarter-finals5/932100 20144th-place4/1031200 2022Quarter-finals5/1232100 2026Qualified Total 0 Titles 4/4 9 5 4 0 0
Other global tournaments CWC Challenge League (List A) ICC Intercontinental Cup (FC) World Cricket League (LA/ODI/50 overs) 2019–22 (B): 3rd place () 2024–26 (B): 3rd place () 2005: 11th place 2015–17: 4th place2007 (Division Three) : 5th place () 2008 (Division Four) : Runners-up () 2009 (Division Three) : 3rd place () 2011 (Division Three) : Winners () 2011 (Division Two) : 4th place () 2019 (Division Two) : 6th place
Other regional tournaments T20WC Asia/Asia-EAP Regional Final (T20I) T20WC Asia Sub-regional Qualifiers (T20I) ACC Premier Cup/Asia Cup Qualifier (OD/T20I) ACC Twenty20 Cup (T20) 2019 : Did not participate (advanced directly) 2023 : 6th place 2025 : Did not qualify 2027 : To be determined 2024: 3rd place (DNQ) 2016 : 4th place (DNQ) 2018 : Winners (Q) 2022 : Winners (Q) 2023 : 5th place (DNQ) 2024 : 3rd place (Q) 2026 : Qualified2007: First round 2009: 10th place 2011: Runners up 2013: 4th place ACC Trophy (OD) ACC Eastern Region T20 (T20) ACC Premier League (OD) Fast Track Countries Tournament1996: First round 1998: Semi-finals 2000: Runners up 2002: Semi-finals 2004: First round 2006: Runners up 2008 (Elite): WinnersScorecard of Hong Kong v UAE, 3 August 2008 at CricketArchive 2010 (Elite): 3rd place 2012 (2012 ACC Trophy Elite): 5th place 2020: Runners-up2014: 5th place2004/05: Runners-up 2005/06: 5th place 2006/07: 4th place
Current squad This lists all the players who have played for Hong Kong in the past 12 months or has been part of the latest One-day or T20I squad.
Updated as of 8 August 2026.