The Emergence of Chinese Cricket: Development

In December 2006, the Chinese U-15 Cricket Team came to Bangkok to contest the ACC U-15 Challenge Cup 2006, in what was China’s first international cricket tournament. I had a chance to meet up with some the players, coaches, and administrators from that team to get an insight into what moves China is making to [...]

News: China beat Myanmar, and Bhutan beat Maldives in U15 ACC Cup

Very  interesting. China has won their first ever representative cricket match. Bhutan beating Maldives also seems to be an interesting indication, given the amount of interest in cricket in Maldives, and the the fact that Maldives have been affiliated with ICC for much longer.
Rego? Are you in Thailand watching all this? How about some first [...]

News: Pak appoints Rashid Khan as China U15 coach….

Well well……. looks like people are getting serious……. China U15 to tour Pak, Pak School team to visit China…. Pakistan appointing a coach for the U15 team……..
Perhaps it would be best to start off with the China U10 team…… those guys CAN theoratically be trained to become world class players…… I think it may be [...]

News: “Cricket taking root in China”

Sure, it is taking root……. it is in the seed plantation stage, by no means should it is considered to be ready for harvest, perhaps not in the near future either……. I read this article, and the only reason I thought I should post this is because it actually spells out some numbers….. 19 primary [...]

News: China Cricket gets $400,000 funding…..

Both the ACC and ICC have equally split up the number and are going to fund the development programme in China. While I think that ACC have done more than their share of funding, I think the ICC could have done more. China is 25% of the non-cricketing world population, so $1mil perhaps should have [...]

Opinion: On China’s ‘potential’

ACC and ICC both have recently given statements about how Cricket’s taking off in China can increase global cricket revenues by at least 40%. I just wanted to make a couple of comments on this. First of all, China will only increase global revenue if there are around 3-400 million people interested in cricket. Otherwise, [...]

Cricket development in China

Around the end of 2005, ACC Development managers visited China and answered some good questions about the future and development of cricket in that country. Personally, I do not see China doing anything until at least another 10-15 years, which is normal. But it seems that they are on a faster track, because they are [...]