It was a good weekend for Diasqua Little Sai Wan Cricket Club, with all teams gaining points, although three of the games played this weekend were washed out due to the Typhoon. The other three games were big wins for the club X-Cricketers It was a hot and humid day on 23rd October following the departure of Typhoon Haima. X-Cricketer playing a game of cricket after 5 and half months were feeling a little rusty. However the team was motivated to do well against rivals ESF Lio

JKN Team JKN started their season by “hosting” Hong Kong Cricket Club Scorpions at Hong Kong Cricket Club on 16th October 2016. Captain Barbar Hayet won his first toss as captain for Sai Wan and decided to bat first. Opener Amandeep Singh was the first to fall run out with the score on 30 runs. Barbar Hayat could not add much and was out early caught behind off bowler Gareth Harte. Opener Jamshed Khan kept one end ticking as wickets fell, finally he was bowled by Todd Ingram

The final few matches for the 2015/2016 season have ended for all teams. Apart from the Challenge League all the league seasons have ended. Below are reports of the matches that took over the last month which brought an end to various DLSWCC teams’ season. DLSW JKN The final game against HKCA Dragons on 24th April 2016 at Mission Road was abandoned because of a damned pitch due to rain. DLSW Knights On 17th April 2016 at Mission Road, in a match-reduced to 38 overs per side d

Its been a number of years since a cricket team from Diasqua Little Sai Wan Cricket Club played at the HKUST Grounds and it was great to have a Challenge League Game between DLSW X-Cricketers and HKUST be scheduled there on Mar 6th 2016. At HKUST, cricket is played on the football field using a Flex Mat Wicket, the boundaries included parts of the running tracks around the ground. The wicket plays well throughout the innings and the ground has a amazing seanic veiw with Mount

It was a windy day on December 6th 2015, signaling the beginning of the winter. DLSW X-Cricketers have had a few weeks away from cricket with a number of Training Sessions being cancelled because of rain and some sessions cancelled because of insufficient participants. However the team was still confident of doing well in the match even though they were playing the runners up team from last season. If ever one wants to understand how a single team can dominate a match then on

Shahzeen Shahzad continues a phenomenal year for DLSWCC’s Wasps team by smashing an unbeaten 211 in just 33 overs as DLSWCC Wasps thumped USRC by 264 runs in a Women’s League match at PKVR Reservoir on 29th November 2015. The DLSWCC women batted first after winning the toss and they scored a massive 2/339 with Shanzeen helping herself to the highest individual score by a women cricketer in Hong Kong while Manpreet Kaur also scored 40. Shanzeen’s double-century was not the fir

On a cloudy Sunday afternoon that threatened rain at Police Training College X-Cricketers were put in to bat by HKU Students. The decision looked a good one as opener Ben Yates was cleaned up for nought by an inswinging yorker early on in the first over. In went Manpreet Singh, his exuberance and flamboyant style evident early on as he looked to build with opener Nitesh Sacheti. Both were looking good when Sacheti having been dropped by square leg earlier decided to stick to

Result round up of weekend of 7/8 November. At Mission Road on Sunday 8th November 2015, USRC/MCC defeated DLSWCC Knights by three wickets. The Knights batted first after winning the toss and they scored 163 all out in 47.1 overs with Haroon Arshad scoring 41 and Sarfaraz Khan 32. Three USRC/MCC bowlers claimed three wickets – Balal Mohammad was their best with 3/10 while Mohammad Awais picked up 3/35 and Mudassar Hussain claimed 3/32. The USRC/MCC batting effort got off to a