The Hong Kong Sixes 2024 event will run from November 1 to November 3 and guarantees to unleash some thrilling encounters on the Tin Kwong Highway Cricket Floor, that includes 12 groups, competing in six-a-side matches. The spectators can have an interesting and really completely different expertise because the cricket carnival will likely be embellished with some mind-blowing performances, nice music and superb meals. The 12 groups have been divided into 4 swimming pools of three every and can compete in a round-robin format. India who will likely be led by Robin Uthappa are part of Pool C and now have arch-rivals Pakistan alongside UAE.
Hosts Hong Kong will likely be up towards South Africa and New Zealand in Pool Some time Pool B includes Australia, England and Nepal. Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Oman will battle it out in Pool D.
The primary match will likely be performed between South Africa and Hong Kong to kick begin the event whereas the high-voltage conflict between India and Pakistan may also happen on the primary day.
The highest two sides from every pool will play the quarter-finals and the winners of the quarter-final spherical will additional transfer into the semi-finals. The groups who will lose within the quarters will play the Plate semifinals. The underside-placed group in every pool will play the Bowl Competitors. A complete of 29 matches will happen throughout three days of the competitors.
A Ladies’s Exhibition Match has additionally been scheduled on the ultimate day of the event to commemorate the seventy fifth anniversary of the founding of the Folks’s Republic of China.
Schedule & Timings:
November 1:
South Africa vs Hong Kong: 6 AM (IST), 8:30 AM (Native time)
England vs Nepal: 6:55 AM (IST), 9:25 AM (Native Time)
Pakistan vs UAE: 7:50 AM (IST) 10:20 AM (Native Time)
Sri Lanka vs Oman: 8:45 AM (IST), 11:15 AM (Native Time)
New Zealand vs Hong Kong: 9:40 AM (IST), 12:10 PM (Native Time)
Bangladesh vs Oman: 10:35 AM (IST), 13:05 PM (Native TIme)
India vs Pakistan: 11:30 AM (IST), 14:00 PM (Native Time)
England vs Australia: 12:25 PM (IST), 14:55 (Native Time)
South Africa vs New Zealand: 1:15 PM (IST), 15:45 (Native Time)
Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh: 2:10 PM (IST), 16:40 (Native Time)
November 2:
Australia vs Nepal: 6 AM (IST), 8:30 AM (Native Time)
India vs UAE: 6:55 AM (IST), 9:25 AM (Native Time)
Bowl Match 1: A3 vs D3 7:50 AM (IST), 10:20 AM (Native Time)
Bowl Match 2: B3 vs C3 8:45 AM (IST), 11:15 AM (Native Time)
Quarterfinal 1: B1 vs A2 9:40 AM (IST), 12:10 PM (Native Time)
Quarterfinal 2: A1 vs C2 10:35 AM (IST), 1:05 PM (Native Time)
Bowl Match 3: A3 vs C3 11:30 AM (IST), 2:00 PM (Native Time)
Bowl Match 4: B3 vs D4 12:25 PM (IST), 2:55 PM (Native Time)
Quarterfinal 3: D1 vs B2 1:15 PM (IST), 3:45 PM (Native Time)
Quarterfinal 4: C1 vs D2 2:10 PM (IST), 4:40 PM (Native Time)
November 3:
Bowl Match 5: A3 vs B3 6 AM (IST), 8:30 AM (Native Time)
Plate Semifinal 1: LQ1 vs LQ2 6:55 AM (IST), 9:25 AM (Native Time)
Plate Semifinal 2: LQ3 vs LQ4 7:50 AM (IST), 10:20 AM (Native Time)
Bowl Match 6: C3 vs D3 8:45 AM (IST), 11:15 AM (Native Time)
Ladies’s Exhibition Match: 9:40 AM (IST), 12:10 PM (Native Time)
Semifinal 1: WQ1 vs WQ2 10:20 AM (IST), 12:50 PM (Native Time)
Semifinal 2: WQ3 vs WQ4 11:10 AM (IST), 1:40 PM (Native Time)
Bowl remaining: 12:05 PM (IST), 2:35 PM (Native Time)
Plate Ultimate: 12:55 PM (IST), 3:25 PM (Native Time)
Cup Ultimate: 1:55 PM (IST), 4:25 PM (Native Time)
Squads:
India: Robin Uthappa (C), Kedar Jadhav, Manoj Tiwary, Stuart Binny, Shreevats Goswami, Bharat Chipli, Shahbaz Nadeem
Official: Deepak Dangayach
Pakistan: Faheem Ashraf (c), Muhammad Akhlaq, Asif Ali, Danish Aziz, Hussain Talat, Amir Yamin, Shahab Khan
Official: Saleem Yousaf
South Africa: JJ Smuts (c), Matthew Boast, Evan Jones, Modiri Litheko, Don Radebe, Jacques Snyman, Aubrey Swanepoel
Official: Malibongwe Maketa
Hong Kong: Nizakat Khan (c), Zeeshan Ali, Imran Arif, Ehsan Khan, Jason Lui, Sahal Malvernkar, Benny Singh Paras
Coach: Mark Farmer
Australia: Dan Christian (c), Alex Ross, Andrew Fekete, Fawad Ahmed, Jack Wooden, James Pattinson, Sam Heazlett
Official: Brendan Drew
New Zealand: Todd Astle C), Harmeet Singh, Henry Mclntyre, Raunaq Kapur, Sam Cassidy, Siddesh Dixit, Xavier Bell
Official: Carl Frauenstein
UAE: Asif Khan (C), Ansh Tandon, Khalid Shah, Mohammad Zuhaib, Raja Akif Ullah Khan, Sanchit Sharma, Zahoor Khan
Supervisor / Coach: Rejith Arjunan Kurungode
Bangladesh: Yasir Ali Chowdhury Rabbi (C), Abdullah AL Mamun, Abu Haider Rony, Jishan Alam, Mohammad Saifuddi, Nahidul Islam, Shohagh Gazi
Official: Md. Monjurul Islam
Sri Lanka: Lahiru Madusanka (C), Dhananjaya Lakshan, Lahiru Samarakoon, Nimesh Vimukthi, Sadun Weerakkody, Thanuka Dabare, Tharindu Rathnayake
Official: Samantha Dodanwela
Nepal: Sundeep Jora (C), Bibek Kumar Yadav, Dipendra Rawat, Lokesh Bahadur Ram, Narayan Joshi, Pratish GC, Rashid Khan
Coach: Gyanendra Malla
Oman: Sandeep Goud Shreematula (C), Vinayak Shukla, Asif Khan, Hassnain Ali Shah, Shoaib Al Balushi, Zikria Islam, Mujibur Ali
Coach/Supervisor: Syed Amir Ali
England: Ravi Bopara(C), Sumit Patel, Ed Barnard, Ethan Brookes, James Coles, Jordan Thompson, Alex Davies
Official: Paul Nixon.
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