9th November: The world’s richest and most exciting cricket sixes tournament, The Hong Kong International Cricket Sixes, takes place this weekend and Ten Sports has exclusive coverage of all the action.
The twelfth edition of the event will see some of the best known names in cricket take to the field at the Kowloon Cricket Club including Darren Gough and Dominic Cork of England, South African Nicky Boje, West Indian Champions Trophy representatives Carlton Baugh and Marlon Samuels and Pakistanis Imran Nazir and Yasir Arafat.
Add to that the considerable talents of Indian Reetinder Sodhi, last year's Player of the Tournament, and Sri Lankan Saman Jayantha, who won the accolade in 2003, and all the ingredients are in place for another explosive weekend of cricket.
India, Australia, West Indies, England, New Zealand Kiwis, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Hong Kong are the nine teams that will be competing for the coveted trophy but before they are able to claim victory the winning side will have to battle through two round robin stages and then the knock out stages to reach the final.
And for the first time on Ten Sports the channel will have a female commentator on its team. Kass Naidoo is South Africa’s first female cricket commentator and she will be making her Ten Sports debut this weekend at the Hong Kong Sixes.
Coverage of the tournament begins at 19.00 hours IST
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