Ilyas Gull (born 1 January 1968) is a Pakistani-born Hong Kong

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er. He was named captain of the

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for the

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tournament, when

Tim Smart Timothy Trudeau Smart (born 10 July 1972) is an Australian-born Hong Kong cricketer. Smart is an aggressive right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper and has played cricket in Hong Kong for a number of years. He made his One Day International de ...

resigned the captaincy. Gull was born on 1 January 1968, in Rawalpindi,

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. His best One Day International bowling performance is 3–46 against

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in 2004; as of 2007, he remains the only Hong Kong player to take three wickets in an ODI. In

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, he took 5-16 for Hong Kong against the

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in the

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