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*Official* Emerging Nations Cricket Thread

cnerd123

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The seedy underbelly of Associates age group cricket.

Singapore were the team that had half their squad banned after bone tests not so long ago, weren't they?
 
Magrat Garlick

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The seedy underbelly of Associates age group cricket.

Singapore were the team that had half their squad banned after bone tests not so long ago, weren't they?
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about that

Accuracy of bone assessments for verifying agein adolescents – application in sport (Braude, Henning, Lambert; Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town)

The technique of assessing skeletal age in an attempt to identify sports participants who are older than the prescribed age limit lacks the necessary precision. Until such time as an objective biological method is available to predict age more accurately, sport administrators should rather develop structures that can verify the accuracy of birth certificates.
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cnerd123

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So the thing is, the Waqas Khan's of HK cricket do have their legal documents all in line - HK ID, passport, etc.

It's not a situation where the HKCA is messing around with birth certificates, but a situation where individuals are able to obtain HK Govt certified documents, and then the HKCA picking players who posses such documents legally and whom meet the age requirements.

For all intents and purposes, this guy is legally born in 1999 and will be considered to have been born in 1999 for the rest of his life.
 
Daemon

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The seedy underbelly of Associates age group cricket.

Singapore were the team that had half their squad banned after bone tests not so long ago, weren't they?
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Lol no, quite the opposite actually. Every other team including Hong Kong was banned besides us and Kuwait.
 
Magrat Garlick

Magrat Garlick

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So the thing is, the Waqas Khan's of HK cricket do have their legal documents all in line - HK ID, passport, etc.

It's not a situation where the HKCA is messing around with birth certificates, but a situation where individuals are able to obtain HK Govt certified documents, and then the HKCA picking players who posses such documents legally and whom meet the age requirements.

For all intents and purposes, this guy is legally born in 1999 and will be considered to have been born in 1999 for the rest of his life.
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Yeah and not picking people who are legally eligible opens you up to lawsuits from disgruntled athletes. Fun times!
 
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RR's having such a good tournament. Topping the batting charts with 4 50s and has 11 wickets so far in 5 games as well.
 
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Malaysia's dominating. We'll get hammered in Div 1 against Nepal, Afghanistan and have pretty much zero chance of qualifying for the U19 WC, but the U19 Asia Cup will be even worse with India, Bangladesh, SL all being involved.
 
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Hong Kong Cricket Association

Hong Kong Cricket Association today unveiled a bold new brand identity featuring a new logo based on the Bauhinia Orchid and a name change to Cricket Hong Kong.

Fittingly, the unveiling will be heralded as Hong Kong face China in the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup qualifiers at the iconic Hong Kong Cricket Club.

The refreshed name, logo and strategic direction marks a coming-of-age in the development of the game in Hong Kong – a sport that has been played here since the 1840s.

At the core of the refreshed image is a new strategic direction that aims to celebrate and unify the diverse communities of Hong Kong through cricket.

In 2016, a major new junior development program was introduced, headlined by the Junior Cricket Sixes that is tailored for Hong Kong Chinese schools. Huge efforts by Cricket Hong Kong and the various clubs have seen junior cricket grow to an all-time record level.

The growth at grass roots level is seen as critical to the ongoing success at international level, with both the men’s and women’s teams rising up the rankings and the men’s team in particular closing in on the Top 10 and having played in the past two ICC World Twety20s.

Also at the heart of the new strategy is to ignite a passion for the sport and Hong Kong. As part of this, developing major cricket events in the Territory will be at the forefront of showcasing the game’s opportunities. Cricket Hong Kong recently announced the return of the iconic Hong Kong Sixes in 2017. This adds a second major international event to the local calendar, following the successful introduction of the T20 Blitz franchise competition, which featured former Australia captain Michael Clarke during this year’s inaugural tournament.

The new identity was designed in partnership with leading brand consultancy StartJG, who completed the work on a pro-bono basis as part of their community development programme in Hong Kong. Pak Sum Leung who led the work commented “Cricket is a major opportunity to promote Hong Kong to the world and we were really excited to get involved.”

Cricket Hong Kong CEO Tim Cutler commented, “Hong Kong is renowned for its absorbing character, colour and energy. The cricket that is played here is no different, and we have tried to reflect this throughout the new design. We are over the moon with the finished product – and very thankful to Start JG for their generous contribution of their world-class services. This project would simply not have been possible if not for this support, which has gone way beyond ‘just’ a brand refresh.

"One of our key strategic goals is to ignite a passion for cricket in Hong Kong and I believe our new identity will go a long way to achieving this. It will be the common thread that ties our community programmes, domestic leagues and fan engagement initiatives together – not to mention our broad social media reach and brand new, soon to be launched website. We look forward to seeing our teams wear the Bauhinia with pride when they represent Hong Kong.”

The Hong Kong men’s team will first wear the Bauhinia and new kit in their home series against Papua New Guinea on November 4, 6 and 8.
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After consulting a Brand consultancy Hong Kong Cricket becomes Cricket Hong Kong ! Hmmm....

Potent global Associate ODI XI published in today's edition of The Cricket Paper. Featuring 4 Afghans, 4 Irish, and one each from Netherlands, Scotland and HK . The Scot leads the side.
 
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