It's super unusual to be able to watch cricket in Hong Kong - and the only real chance is to go to the cricket sixes. Sixes are played by a team of six people (so the fielders are super spread out) and each innings consists of 30 balls - 5 players each have to bowl one over, the player being the wicket keeper does not bowl. So if you think 20-20 is a short hard hitting format you should try this one as an option. Eight teams played, so you saw each team many times. I went for the afternoons of both days, having done something with the boys in the morning on each - Aiden is a bit too small to enjoy sitting in the stands at the moment, so he didn't get to go. (Perhaps that's not entirely fair - more like I wouldn't enjoy having to watch him rather than the cricket).
And there were some superstars on show, great, because I've only ever seen people like Shane Warne and Brian Lara on TV, and now I got to see them play, even if it was in a trunkated form of the game. I took these for you - quite cool hey - a study of Warne bowling and Brian Lara hitting a cover drive - dispite his head being down as it is, for six out of the ground.
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