Mission Road Ground or Tin Kwong Road Recreation Ground is a multi-purpose sports field in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, which is mainly used for

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

matches. It was opened in 1976, and the first match played there was between a Hong Kong XI and the Queensland Colts. In November 2015 the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that it had approved the ground as venue for holding

One Day International A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World C ...

(ODI) matches, the venue thus becoming the first international cricket venue in East Asia and

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. On 26 January 2016, the ground hosted its first One Day International when the Hong Kong cricket team played against Scotland in the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship. A second scheduled ODI was washed out. On the two following days, the first two Twenty20 Internationals at the ground were played, between the same teams. In February 2020, Interport Series was scheduled to be played at this venue but was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic in

. The series was then moved to Kinrara Academy Oval in Kuala Lumpur.

List of Five Wicket Hauls

One Day Internationals

References

External links

Cricinfo

Wikimapia
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