2012 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes

Hong Kong Cricket Sixes 2012

Administrator(s)	International Cricket Council
Cricket format	Six-a-side
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and Knockout
Host(s)	Hong Kong
Champions	South Africa (4th title)
Participants	8
Matches played	22
Player of the series	Umar Akmal
Most runs	Umar Akmal (201)
Most wickets	Lyall Meyer (7)
Official website	http://www.cricket.com.hk

The 2012 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes is the eighteenth edition of the Hong Kong Cricket Sixes, taking place at Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong. Eight teams competing in the tournament which will last over two days from 27 to 28 October 2012. The tournament also feature China cricket team playing an exhibition match with a Hong Kong development team. The previous tournament was won by Pakistan who defeated England in the final.^[1][2]

Squads

Pool A
Australia	England	Hong Kong	South Africa
Brad Hodge (c) Tim Armstrong Ryan Carters Cameron Borgas Meyrick Buchanan Theo Doropoulos Steve Paulsen	Josh Cobb (c) Adam Ball Keith Barker Ben Brown Chris Nash Tom Smith Ross Whiteley	James Atkinson (c) Tanwir Afzal Irfan Ahmed Munir Dar Babar Hayat Nizakat Khan Aizaz Khan	Colin Ingram (c) Dillon du Preez Robbie Frylinck Lyall Meyer David Miller Wayne Parnell Khayelihle Zondo
Pool B
Pakistan	India	Sri Lanka	Netherlands
Kamran Akmal (c) Tanvir Ahmed Umar Akmal Hammad Azam Junaid Khan Yasir Shah Awais Zia	Praveen Kumar (c) Ajit Chandila Paul Valthaty Siddharth Chitnis Sandeep Sharma Siddharth Trivedi Ishan Malhotra	Chamara Kapugedera (c) Kosala Kulasekara Jehan Mubarak Kaushal Lokuarachchi Kusal Matharage Don Sachith Pathirana Ramith Rambukwella	Wesley Barresi (c) Peter Borren Mudassar Bukhari Peter Drinnen Alexei Kervezee Stephan Myburgh Pieter Seelaar Michael Swart

Standing and Prize Money

Position	Team	Prize Money
1	South Africa	US$40,000
2	Pakistan	US$20,000
3	Hong Kong	US$10,000
4	Sri Lanka	US$10,000
5	Australia	US$5,000
6	Netherlands	US$5,000
7	England	US$5,000
8	India	US$5,000

Rules and regulations

All standard laws of the game as laid down by the MCC applied with the following significant differences:

General

Games are played between two teams of six players, and consist of five overs of six balls, with the exception of the final which consists of five overs of eight balls. Each member of the fielding side, with the exception of the wicket-keeper shall bowl one over. Wides and no-balls count as two runs to the batting side, plus an extra ball.^[3]

Last man stands

If five wickets fall (not including batsmen retiring not out) before the allocated overs have been completed, the remaining batsman continues, with the last batsman out remaining as a runner. The not out batsman shall always face strike, and shall be declared out if his partner is declared out.^[3]

Batsman retire

A batsman must retire not out on reaching 31 runs, but not before. He may complete all runs scored on the ball on which he reaches his 31, and retire immediately after. If one of the last pair of batsmen is out, any remaining not out batsman may resume his innings. In the case where there is more than one, they must return in the order they retired.^[3]

Fixtures and Results

All times shown are in Hong Kong Time (UTC+08:00).

Group stage

Pool A

Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	RR*
Hong Kong	3	2	1	4	3.2889
South Africa	3	2	1	4	3.1205
England	3	1	2	2	3.0610
Australia	3	1	2	2	2.7222

• *Runs per legitimate ball faced (i.e. excludes wides and no-balls)

27 October 08:30 scorecard

Australia  67-4	v	Hong Kong 134-1

Hong Kong won by 67 runs Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

27 October 10:00 scorecard

Hong Kong  84-2	v	South Africa 90-2

South Africa won by 4 wickets Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

27 October 11:30 scorecard

Australia  86-4	v	England 88-0

England won by 6 wickets Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

27 October 13:00 scorecard

Australia  91-2	v	South Africa 56

Australia won by 35 runs Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

27 October 14:30 scorecard

England  71-3	v	Hong Kong 78

Hong Kong won by 7 runs Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

27 October 16:00 scorecard

England  92-3	v	South Africa 113-1

South Africa won by 21 runs Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

Pool B

Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	RR*
Pakistan	3	3	0	6	3.3333
Sri Lanka	3	2	1	4	3.3239
India	3	1	2	2	2.2889
Netherlands	3	0	3	0	2.6222

• *Runs per legitimate ball faced (i.e. excludes wides and no-balls)

27 October 09:15 scorecard

India  69-3	v	Netherlands 123-4

India won 9 runs Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

27 October 10:45 scorecard

Netherlands  104-0	v	Sri Lanka 107-0

Sri Lanka won by 3 runs Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

27 October 12:15 scorecard

Pakistan  78-0	v	Netherlands 73-4

Pakistan won by 6 wickets Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

27 October 13:45 scorecard

Sri Lanka  104-2	v	India 67-4

Sri Lanka won by 37 runs Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

27 October 15:15 scorecard

Pakistan  73-1	v	India 70-3

Pakistan won by 5 wickets Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

27 October 16:45 scorecard

Sri Lanka  85	v	Pakistan 89-3

Sri Lanka won by 3 wickets Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

Plate Knockout Stage

	Plate Semi-finals					Plate Finals
	A3	Australia	105-2
	B4	India	89-4
						PSF1	Australia	79-0
						PSF2	Netherlands	78-4
	B3	England	86-1
	A4	Netherlands	100-2

Plate Semi-finals

28 October 08:30 Scorecard

Australia	v	India

Australia won by 16 runs Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat

28 October 10:45 Scorecard

England	v	Netherlands

Netherlands won by 14 runs Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

• England won the toss and elected to field

Plate Final

28 October 15:15 Scorecard

Australia  79/0 (3.2 overs)	v	Netherlands 78/5 (5 overs)
Steve Paulsen 34** (7) Alexei Kervezee 0/6 (0.2 overs)		Wesley Barresi 34 (10) Cameron Borgas 2/8 (1 overs)

Australia won by 6 wickets Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong Umpires: Zubair Nizami and Anoop Gidwani

• Netherlands won the toss and elected to bat

Cup Round Robin Stage

Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	RR*
South Africa	3	3	0	6	3.1852
Pakistan	3	2	1	4	3.2949
Hong Kong	3	1	2	2	3.3563
Sri Lanka	3	0	3	0	3.1278

• *Run-rate carries over from the first day's play.

28 October 09:15 Scorecard

Pakistan	v	South Africa

South Africa won by 37 runs Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

• Pakistan won the toss and elected to field

28 October 10:10 Scorecard

Hong Kong	v	Sri Lanka

Hong Kong won by 6 wickets Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

• Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field

28 October 11:30 Scorecard

Pakistan	v	Hong Kong

Pakistan won by 2 runs Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

• Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field

28 October 12:15 Scorecard

South Africa	v	Sri Lanka

South Africa won by 5 wickets Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

• South Africa won the toss and elected to field

28 October 13:40 Scorecard

Hong Kong	v	South Africa

South Africa won by 4 wickets Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

• South Africa won the toss and elected to field

28 October 14:30 Scorecard

Pakistan	v	Sri Lanka

Pakistan won by 5 wickets Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong

• Pakistan won the toss and elected to field

Final

28 October 17:00 Scorecard

South Africa  142/2 (5 overs)	v	Pakistan 105 (4.1 overs)
Colin Ingram 34** (6) Awais Zia 2/20 (1 overs)		umar Akmal 51 (15) Lyall Meyer 1/0 (0.1 overs)

South Africa won by 37 runs Kowloon Cricket Club, Hong Kong Umpires: Clive Howard and Michael Walsh

• Pakistan won the toss and elected to field

Notes

• ** is used to signify that a batsman was forced to retire not out as his personal score was 31 or more.

References

Hong Kong Cricket Sixes