# 2025 Cricket World Cup Challenge League B (Hong Kong)

The 2025 Hong Kong Cricket World Cup Challenge League B was the second round of Group B matches of the 2024–2026 Cricket World Cup Challenge League, a cricket tournament which forms part of the qualification pathway to the 2027 Cricket World Cup. The tournament was hosted by Cricket Hong Kong, China from 6 to 16 February 2025, with all matches having List A status.

## Warm-up matches
### Tri-series

Bahrain, Hong Kong and Uganda played a tri-nation series in preparation for the Challenge League matches. Hong Kong defeated Uganda in the final.

#### Round-robin
##### Points table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | Uganda | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1.540 | Advanced to the final |
| 2 | Hong Kong | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.827 | Advanced to the final |
| 3 | Bahrain | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2.445 | Advanced to the 3rd place play-off |

##### Fixtures

* 28 January 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Hong Kong 240/9 (50 overs) | v | Uganda 244/7 (50 overs) |
| Nizakat Khan 84 (79) Cosmas Kyewuta 4/56 (10 overs) | | Riazat Ali Shah 84* (93) Ehsan Khan 2/32 (8 overs) |
* Uganda won by 3 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Niaz Ali (HK) and Tabarak Dar (HK) Player of the match: Riazat Ali Shah (Uga)
* Uganda won the toss and elected to field.
* 31 January 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Uganda 275 (46.5 overs) | v | Bahrain 125 (38.2 overs) |
| Cyrus Kakuru 69 (79) Asif Ali 5/11 (2.5 overs) | | Rishabh Ramesh 45 (79) Alpesh Ramjani 5/15 (6.2 overs) |
* Uganda won by 150 runs Hong Kong Cricket Club, Wong Nai Chung Gap Umpires: Shelton D'Cruz (HK) and John Prakash (HK) Player of the match: Alpesh Ramjani (Uga)
* Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.
* 1 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Bahrain 134 (41.1 overs) | v | Hong Kong 137/4 (31.5 overs) |
| Asif Ali 29 (50) Nasrulla Rana 4/22 (10 overs) | | Babar Hayat 61 (71) Imran Khan 2/22 (8 overs) |
* Hong Kong won by 6 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Shelton D'Cruz (HK) and John Prakash (HK) Player of the match: Nasrulla Rana (HK)
* Bahrain won the toss and elected to bat.

#### Final

* 2 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Hong Kong 234 (49.2 overs) | v | Uganda 166 (42.2 overs) |
| Anshuman Rath 107 (129) Cosmas Kyewuta 3/45 (10 overs) | | Dinesh Nakrani 49 (78) Nasrulla Rana 5/29 (8.2 overs) |
* Hong Kong won by 68 runs Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Tabarak Dar (HK) and John Prakash (HK) Player of the match: Anshuman Rath (HK)
* Uganda won the toss and elected to field.

#### 3rd place play-off

* 3 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Bahrain 77 (21.2 overs) | v | Hong Kong A 79/3 (18.3 overs) |
| Rizwan Butt 17 (16) Sheryar Khan 5/29 (9.2 overs) | | Shahid Wasif 31* (32) Asif Mohammad 2/19 (3 overs) |
* Hong Kong A won by 7 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Tabarak Dar (HK) and John Prakash (HK) Player of the match: Sheryar Khan (Hong Kong A)
* Bahrain won the toss and elected to bat.

### Other matches

* 3 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Tanzania 187/9 (47 overs) | v | Italy 188/5 (25.4 overs) |
| Kassim Nassoro 97* (106) Crishan Kalugamage 3/21 (6 overs) | | Justin Mosca 52 (26) Laksh Bakrania 2/38 (4 overs) |
* Italy won by 5 wickets Hong Kong Cricket Club, Wong Nai Chung Gap Player of the match: Crishan Kalugamage (Ita)
* Tanzania won the toss and elected to bat.
* 4 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Hong Kong A 243 (49.5 overs) | v | Tanzania 131 (43.4 overs) |
| Sahal Malvernkar 64 (89) Khalidy Juma 3/27 (7 overs) | | Kassim Nassoro 25 (49) Daniel Mapp 5/18 (7 overs) |
* Hong Kong A won by 112 runs Kowloon Cricket Club, Kowloon Player of the match: Sahal Malvernkar (Hong Kong A)
* Hong Kong A won the toss and elected to bat.

## Squads

| Bahrain | Hong Kong | Italy | Singapore | Tanzania | Uganda |
| Ahmer Bin Nasir (c, wk) Abdul Majid Abbasi Fiaz Ahmed Sohail Ahmed Asif Ali Imran Anwar Junaid Aziz Shahbaz Badar (wk) Muhammed Basil Rizwan Butt Imran Khan Prashant Kurup Rishabh Ramesh Sai Sarthak Abid Ullah Shah Asif Shaikh | Yasim Murtaza (c) Babar Hayat (vc) Zeeshan Ali (wk) Haroon Arshad Waqas Barkat Martin Coetzee Ateeq Iqbal Aizaz Khan Ehsan Khan Nizakat Khan Shiv Mathur (wk) Nasrulla Rana Anshuman Rath Ayush Shukla | Marcus Campopiano (c) Zain Ali Gareth Berg Stefano di Bartolomeo Thomas Draca Rakibul Hasan Crishan Kalugamage Wayne Madsen Nicholas Maiolo Gian-Piero Meade (wk) Anthony Mosca Justin Mosca Jaspreet Singh Grant Stewart | Manpreet Singh (c) Vinoth Baskaran Harsha Bharadwaj Aryaveer Chaudhary Aman Desai (wk) Suryansh Gulecha Amartya Kaul Hari Kukreja Riaan Naik Thilipan Omaidurai Janak Prakash Raoul Sharma Pranav Sudarshan Ishaan Swaney | Kassim Nassoro (c) Akhil Anil Laksh Bakrania Mohamed Issa Arshan Jasani Khalidy Juma Ally Kimote Omary Kitunda Rajendra Maringanti Simba Mbaki Amal Rajeevan (wk) Ivan Selemani Sivaraj Selvaraj Mukesh Suthar | Riazat Ali Shah (c) Fred Achelam (wk) Raghav Dhawan Cyrus Kakuru (wk) Cosmas Kyewuta Shrideep Mangela Juma Miyagi Pascal Murungi Dinesh Nakrani Frank Nsubuga Robinson Obuya Alpesh Ramjani Henry Ssenyondo Kenneth Waiswa |

## Fixtures

* 6 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Singapore 171 (46.3 overs) | v | Hong Kong 175/3 (36.4 overs) |
| Janak Prakash 58 (99) Nasrulla Rana 3/45 (10 overs) | | Anshuman Rath 90* (116) Manpreet Singh 3/38 (7.4 overs) |
* Hong Kong won by 7 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Lyndon Hannibal (SL) and Durga Subedi (Nep) Player of the match: Anshuman Rath (HK)
* Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field.
* Aryaveer Chaudhary, Hari Kukreja and Thilipan Omaidurai (Sin) all made their List A debuts.
* 7 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Uganda 249/9 (50 overs) | v | Bahrain 197 (44.1 overs) |
| Raghav Dhawan 85 (105) Imran Khan 3/46 (10 overs) | | Asif Ali 85 (92) Juma Miyagi 4/52 (10 overs) |
* Uganda won by 52 runs Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Tanvir Ahmed (Ban) and Tabarak Dar (HK) Player of the match: Raghav Dhawan (Uga)
* Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.
* Imran Khan, Rishabh Ramesh, Sai Sarthak and Asif Shaikh (Bhr) all made their List A debuts.
* 7 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Tanzania 94 (25.5 overs) | v | Italy 95/2 (13.5 overs) |
| Sivaraj Selvaraj 28 (43) Crishan Kalugamage 3/17 (4.5 overs) | | Marcus Campopiano 44* (41) Khalidy Juma 1/24 (5 overs) |
* Italy won by 8 wickets Kowloon Cricket Club, Kowloon Umpires: Lyndon Hannibal (SL) and Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) Player of the match: Grant Stewart (Ita)
* Italy won the toss and elected to field.
* Arshan Jasani and Sivaraj Selvaraj (Tan) both made their List A debuts.
* 9 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Singapore 170 (41 overs) | v | Italy 175/4 (30.4 overs) |
| Aman Desai 59 (71) Jaspreet Singh 3/30 (8 overs) | | Anthony Mosca 48* (56) Ishaan Swaney 1/32 (7.4 overs) |
* Italy won by 6 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Ramasamy Venkatesh (HK) Player of the match: Anthony Mosca (Ita)
* Italy won the toss and elected to field.
* 9 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Bahrain 182 (49.4 overs) | v | Hong Kong 187/1 (34.5 overs) |
| Sohail Ahmed 70* (66) Ehsan Khan 3/17 (10 overs) | | Martin Coetzee 100* (109) Sai Sarthak 1/5 (1 over) |
* Hong Kong won by 9 wickets Kowloon Cricket Club, Kowloon Umpires: Tanvir Ahmed (Ban) and Durga Subedi (Nep) Player of the match: Martin Coetzee (HK)
* Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field.
* Martin Coetzee (HK) scored his first century in List A cricket.
* 10 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Tanzania 139 (41.2 overs) | v | Bahrain 140/4 (34.1 overs) |
| Akhil Anil 57 (97) Imran Anwar 4/22 (8 overs) | | Sohail Ahmed 57* (87) Khalidy Juma 3/52 (8.1 overs) |
* Bahrain won by 6 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Tabarak Dar (HK) and Durga Subedi (Nep) Player of the match: Imran Anwar (Bhr)
* Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.
* Muhammed Basil (Bhr) made his List A debut.
* 10 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Singapore 243/9 (50 overs) | v | Uganda 245/2 (40.4 overs) |
| Aman Desai 66 (80) Henry Ssenyondo 4/36 (9 overs) | | Raghav Dhawan 71* (66) Manpreet Singh 1/50 (10 overs) |
* Uganda won by 8 wickets Kowloon Cricket Club, Kowloon Umpires: Lyndon Hannibal (SL) and Ramasamy Venkatesh (HK) Player of the match: Raghav Dhawan (Uga)
* Uganda won the toss and elected to field.
* Raoul Sharma (Sin) made his List A debut.
* 12 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Hong Kong | v | Tanzania |
* Match abandoned Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Tanvir Ahmed (Ban) and Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas)
* No toss.
* No play was possible due to rain.
* 12 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Italy | v | Uganda |
* Match abandoned Kowloon Cricket Club, Kowloon Umpires: Tabarak Dar (HK) and Ramasamy Venkatesh (HK)
* No toss.
* No play was possible due to rain.
* 13 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Singapore 117 (33.4 overs) | v | Bahrain 123/2 (24.4 overs) |
| Suryansh Gulecha 34 (40) Sohail Ahmed 4/17 (4.4 overs) | | Fiaz Ahmed 50* (58) Harsha Bharadwaj 1/25 (4.4 overs) |
* Bahrain won by 8 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Ramasamy Venkatesh (HK) Player of the match: Sohail Ahmed (Bhr)
* Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.
* Fiaz Ahmed, Abid Ullah Shah (Bhr) and Suryansh Gulecha (Sin) all made their List A debuts.
* 13 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Uganda 276 (49.5 overs) | v | Hong Kong 200 (46.3 overs) |
| Alpesh Ramjani 68 (63) Ehsan Khan 4/53 (10 overs) | | Zeeshan Ali 51 (64) Alpesh Ramjani 4/18 (9 overs) |
* Uganda won by 76 runs Kowloon Cricket Club, Kowloon Umpires: Tanvir Ahmed (Ban) and Durga Subedi (Nep) Player of the match: Alpesh Ramjani (Uga)
* Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field.
* 15 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Uganda 148 (41.1 overs) | v | Tanzania 89 (29.1 overs) |
| Raghav Dhawan 63 (102) Ally Kimote 4/20 (8.1 overs) | | Arshan Jasani 23 (46) Juma Miyagi 6/17 (8.1 overs) |
* Uganda won by 59 runs Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Tabarak Dar (HK) and Lyndon Hannibal (SL) Player of the match: Juma Miyagi (Uga)
* Tanzania won the toss and elected to field.
* 15 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Bahrain 130 (43.2 overs) | v | Italy 132/4 (18.1 overs) |
| Rizwan Butt 53* (64) Gareth Berg 3/12 (6 overs) | | Marcus Campopiano 54 (46) Rizwan Butt 3/46 (7 overs) |
* Italy won by 6 wickets Kowloon Cricket Club, Kowloon Umpires: Durga Subedi (Nep) and Ramasamy Venkatesh (HK) Player of the match: Marcus Campopiano (Ita)
* Bahrain won the toss and elected to bat.
* Thomas Draca (Ita) made his List A debut.
* 16 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Hong Kong 146 (36 overs) | v | Italy 147/3 (23.2 overs) |
| Yasim Murtaza 37 (45) Jaspreet Singh 4/27 (6 overs) | | Wayne Madsen 73* (72) Ayush Shukla 2/19 (5 overs) |
* Italy won by 7 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Tanvir Ahmed (Ban) and Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) Player of the match: Wayne Madsen (Ita)
* Italy won the toss and elected to field.
* 16 February 2025 09:00 Scorecard
| Tanzania 189 (45.5 overs) | v | Singapore 98 (28.1 overs) |
| Akhil Anil 43 (48) Suryansh Gulecha 3/25 (5.5 overs) | | Manpreet Singh 38 (54) Kassim Nassoro 4/23 (10 overs) |
* Tanzania won by 91 runs Kowloon Cricket Club, Kowloon Umpires: Tabarak Dar (HK) and Lyndon Hannibal (SL) Player of the match: Akhil Anil (Tan)
* Singapore won the toss and elected to field.