If you are a student, alumni, member of staff and want to play some cricket, we would love to hear from you! The University of Hong Kong was established in 1911 and its cricket club came into being just two years later, making us one of the oldest in Hong Kong. We played our first league match against the Navy in 1923 (we won) and went on to have sporadic title success over the years: Saturday Lea
gue Cup winners in 1990-91, 1991-92 and 1996-97, and Saturday League Champions in 1927-8, 1932-33 and 2008-09. For a long time, our home ground was located on Pokfield Road, a site now taken by Flora Ho Sports Centre. We moved to Sandy Bay in 1985-86 and for a long time played on coir matting, with the ball barely bouncing above knee height. This was preferable to our temporary home at Little Sai Wan, which was boggy marshland covered in scrub. For an excellent history of the club, read 'A History of Hong Kong University Cricket Club' here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6F_jiAsYaWnX281LVBWd2pXVHc/edit and there you'll learn about club legends like Mr. Ponsonby Fane, whose team photo you can see at HKU MTR station, Dr. S.M. Teh who took figures 5.4-5-0-8 against KGV in 1959 and Phil Glenwright who averaged 359 in the social season of 1995-6. (The above history was completed in 1997, so it misses out what must be a Hong Kong Saturday League record - K.H. Butt hit 311* for HKU against Nomads at HKCC, including 36 sixes and lost a dozen balls. See here http://www.scmp.com/article/477988/butt-hits-record-six-triple-ton)
Today we put out three sides: the league side which competes in the HKCA Saturday Championship, the student side which plays in the HKCA Challenge League and the social side made up of staff and alumni who play at Sandy Bay on Sundays. Cricket is part of HKU's history and we hope it will live on to be part of its future.
