The 2012 Hong Kong Cricket Sixes was the eighteenth edition of the

Hong Kong Cricket Sixes The Hong Kong Cricket Sixes is a Six-a-side international cricket tournament held at the Kowloon Cricket Club comprising between eight and twelve teams. Organised by Cricket Hong Kong, it is sanctioned by the International Cricket Council. The ...

, took place at

Kowloon Cricket Club The Kowloon Cricket Club, also called KCC (), is a members only cricket club and social club situated in Kowloon, Hong Kong, on Cox's Road. History The Cricket Club was established on 4 October 1904 and was provided land from the government i ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

. Eight teams competing in the tournament which lasted over two days from 27 to 28 October 2012. The tournament also featured China cricket team playing an exhibition match with a

development team. The previous tournament was won by Pakistan who defeated England in the final.

Squads

Standing and Prize Money

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 The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being watchful of the batsman and ready to take a catch, stump the batsman out and run out a batsman when occasion arises. Th ...

shall bowl one over. Wides and no-balls count as two runs to the batting side, plus an extra ball.

Last man stands

If five wickets fall (not including batsmen retiring

not out In cricket, a batter is not out if they come out to bat in an innings and have not been dismissed by the end of an innings. The batter is also ''not out'' while their innings is still in progress. Occurrence At least one batter is not out at t ...

) 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.

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.

Fixtures and results

:''All times shown are in

Hong Kong Time Hong Kong Time (abbreviation: HKT; ) is the time in Hong Kong, observed at UTC+08:00 all year round. The Hong Kong Observatory is the official timekeeper of the Hong Kong Time. It is indicated as Asia/Hong_Kong in the IANA time zone database. ...

( UTC+08:00).''

Group stage

Pool A

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

Pool B

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

Plate Knockout stage

Plate Semi-finals

----

Plate Final

Cup Round Robin stage

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

Final

Notes

* ** is used to signify that a batsman was forced to retire

as his personal score was 31 or more.

References

{{reflist Hong Kong Cricket Sixes