Hong Kong confronted by chaos at critical Challenge League tournament in Uganda

Date:

Hong Kong have had to be “open-minded and flexible” to navigate the organisational chaos that is affecting their critical Challenge League B campaign in Uganda.

The tournament represents the first leg of the city team’s three-year quest to recapture their one-day-international status. Hong Kong were indebted to a fabulous Babar Hayat century for a tense three-wicket victory over Bahrain in their opening match, after Yasim Murtaza claimed four cheap wickets with the ball, but they suffered a bruising 155-run loss to Italy on Saturday.

Hong Kong were in action against the hosts on Sunday.

After preparing for the competition in Cape Town, to which they travelled after competing in the Oman-hosted T20 Emerging Teams Asia Cup, Hong Kong arrived in Uganda to discover their training venue was saturated.

Simon Willis, the Hong Kong head coach, said: “The first couple of days were fairly disorganised. It is the back end of the rainy season … when we went to our training venue, the outfield was under water. There had been a government event on it the previous day and it was clear there had been lorries on the outfield, so it was like a rugby ground.

“We weren’t able to do any fielding, we could only use the middle wicket to throw balls and for the spinners to practise. The seamers couldn’t have a training session.

Share post:

Popular

More like this
Related

Unimoni Steals the Spotlight at World Travel Market London | Headlines

Unimoni, a prominent player in...

Blue plaque honouring Cary Grant unveiled at his childhood home in Bristol

A national blue plaque celebrating the life and achievements...

Man United manager Ruben Amorim is “stunned” with what he has seen in training

Amorim will have a mountain to climb at the...

How ‘reinvigorated’ Arsenal turned things around

Arsenal had been written off after a poor start...