Hong Kong cricket team
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| ICC status | Associate (1969) |
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| ICC region | ACC |
| WCL | Championship |
| Coach |
 Simon Cook
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| Captain | Babar Hayat |
| First international | |
 Hong Kong v. Straits Settlements  (Hong Kong; 22 January 1890) |
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| World Cup Qualifier | |
| Appearances | 7 (first in 1982) |
| Best result | 3rd place, 2014 |
| World Twenty20 | |
| Appearances | 2 (first in 2014) |
| Best result | Group stage, 2014 and 2016 |
| World Twenty20 Qualifier | |
| Appearances | 3 (first in 2012) |
| Best result | =3rd place, 2015 |
| As of 10 March 2016 | |
The Hong Kong cricket team represents Hong Kong in international cricket. It played its first match in 1866 and has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1969.
Hong Kong played its first One Day Internationals in the 2004 Asia Cup, 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 has played in every ICC Trophy/World Cup Qualifier tournament, with the exceptions of the 1979 and 2005 events. It has also taken part in two ICC Intercontinental Cup tournaments, in 2005 and in 2015–17, and in two ICC World Twenty20 tournaments, in 2014 and 2016.
As of 12 March 2016, Hong Kong is ranked 15th in the world by the ICC, the third highest-ranked Asian non-Test nation. It is ranked 14th in Twenty20 Internationals.
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 SS Bokhara, 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.
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