2023 FairBreak Invitational T20 Hong Kong

The 2023 FairBreak Invitational T20 is the second edition of the FairBreak Invitational T20, women's Twenty20 cricket competition, which is being held from 3 to 16 April 2023 at the Kowloon Cricket Club in Hong Kong. The tournament, sanctioned by the ICC, is being privately run by FairBreak Global, a company that aims to promote gender equality. A total of 90 players from 28 countries spread across six teams.[1][2][3]

2023 FairBreak Invitational T20 Hong Kong
Dates3 – 16 April 2023
Administrator(s)FairBreak Global
Cricket Hong Kong
Cricket formatTwenty20
Tournament format(s)Round-robin and knockouts
Participants6
Matches20

An additional tournament for 2023, staged in collaboration with USA Cricket, will be played in Houston, Texas, USA, between 15 and 30 September 2023.[4][5]

Competition format

Teams play each other team once, with two matches taking place on most days. The top four teams in the group advance to the semi-finals. All matches are taking place at Kowloon Cricket Club.[6]

The group works on a points system with positions being based on the total points. Points are awarded as follows:

Win: 3 points.
Tie: 1 point.
Loss: 0 points.
Abandoned/No Result: 1 point.
Bonus Point: 1 point awarded to the team with the highest score after 10 overs of the batting innings.

Teams
Barmy Army

Coach: Michael Bates

 Falcons

Coach: Joanne Broadbent

 South Coast Sapphires

Coach: Shane Deitz

Spirit

Coach: Damien Wright

 Tornadoes

Coach: Anju Jain

 Warriors

Coach: Julia Price

Source: Fairbreak[7]

Points table
Team Pld W L T A BP NRR Pts
Warriors 110000+3.5292
Falcons 110000+2.0502
Barmy Army 000000+0.0000
Spirit 000000+0.0000
Tornadoes 101000-2.0500
South Coast Sapphires 101000-3.5290
As of 4 April 2023.

Source:

Fixtures
All times are in local time (UTC+08:00)
Source: Fairbreak[6]

Group stage
3 April 2023
14:00
Scorecard
Falcons
150/6 (20 overs)
v
Tornadoes
109/9 (20 overs)
Theertha Satish 57 (40)
Winifred Duraisingam 2/34 (4 overs)
Sune Luus 48 (35)
Marizanne Kapp 3/4 (3 overs)
Falcons won by 41 runs
Kowloon Cricket Club, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Umpires: Jacqueline Williams (WI) and Viswanadan Kalidas (USA)
Player of the match: Theertha Satish (Falcons)
  • Tornadoes Women won the toss and elected to field.
4 April 2023
10:00
Scorecard
South Coast Sapphires
111/7 (20 overs)
v
Warriors
115/3 (12.4 overs)
Babette De Leede 24 (36)
Kathryn Bryce 3/25 (4 overs)
Phoebe Litchfield 77 (37)
Katherine Brunt 1/13 (2 overs)
Warriors won by 7 wickets.
Kowloon Cricket Club, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Umpires: Jacqueline Williams and Tabarak Dar
Player of the match: Phoebe Litchfield (Warriors)
  • Warriors Women won the toss and elected to field first.
4 April 2023
14:00
Scorecard
Barmy Army
135/5 (20 overs)
v
Spirit
138/6 (18.2 overs)
Shemaine Campbelle 33* (25)
Betty Chan 2/15 (3 overs)
Nicola Carey 40* (30)
Rumana Ahmed 2/21 (4 overs)
Spirit won by 4 wickets
Kowloon Cricket Club, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Umpires: Anna Haris (Eng) and Shivani Mishra (UAE)
Player of the match: Mahika Gaur (Spirit)
  • Spirit Women won the toss and elected to field.
5 April 2023
10:00
Scorecard
Warriors
84/3 (12 overs)
v
Tornadoes
No result
Kowloon Cricket Club, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Umpires: Sarika Prasad (Sin) and Shivani Mishra (Qat)
  • Tornadoes Women won the toss and elected to field.
  • Rain prevented any further play.
5 April 2023
14:00
Scorecard
Barmy Army
143/6 (20 overs)
v
Falcons
134/9 (20 overs)
Chamari Athapaththu 44 (33)
Kavisha Egodage 3/17 (4 overs)
Barmy Army won by 9 runs
Kowloon Cricket Club, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Umpires: John Prakash (HKG) and Simon Taufel (Aus)
Player of the match: Laura Cardoso (Barmy Army)
  • Falcons Women won the toss and elected to field.
7 April 2023
10:00
Scorecard
Spirit
121/8 (20 overs)
v
South Coast Sapphires
109/9 (20 overs)
Nicola Carey 52 (34)
Katherine Sciver-Brunt 2/20 (4 overs)
Katherine Sciver-Brunt 47 (29)
Ayabonga Khaka 4/13 (4 overs)
Spirit won by 12 runs
Kowloon Cricket Club, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Umpires: Claire Polosak (Aus) and Lauren Agenbag (SA)
Player of the match: Ayabonga Khaka (Spirit)
  • Sapphires Women won the toss and elected to field.
7 April 2023
14:00
Scorecard
Falcons
133/8 (20 overs)
v
Warriors
Innings break
Kowloon Cricket Club, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Umpires: Anna Haris (Eng) and Sarika Prasad (Sin)
  • Falcons Women won the toss and elected to bat.
8 April 2023
10:00
Barmy Army
v
Tornadoes
8 April 2023
14:00
Spirit
v
Warriors
9 April 2023
10:00
v
Tornadoes
9 April 2023
14:00
Barmy Army
v
Warriors
11 April 2023
14:00
Spirit
v
Tornadoes
12 April 2023
10:00
v
Barmy Army
12 April 2023
14:00
Spirit
v
Falcons

Fifth-place play-off
14 April 2023
10:00
5th in Group
v
6th in Group

Semi-finals
15 April 2023
10:00
TBD
v
TBD
15 April 2023
14:00
TBD
v
TBD

Third-place play-off
16 April 2023
10:00
TBD
v
TBD

Final
16 April 2023
14:00
TBD
v
TBD

References
  1. Radley, Paul (16 May 2022). "FairBreak Invitational re-imagined cricket for the better – and it worked". The National (Abu Dhabi). Retrieved 3 June 2022.
  2. "Global sports equality movement FairBreak 2023 coming to Hong Kong". HK Cricket. Cricket Hong Kong. 16 February 2023. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  3. Dansinghani, Jay (15 February 2023). "Cricket Hong Kong confirms Fairbreak International match schedule, ticket sales". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  4. USA Cricket Media (27 January 2023). "USA Cricket to host additional 2023 FairBreak Global Invitational T20". USA Cricket. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  5. ESPNcricinfo staff (28 January 2023). "USA to host additional 2023 FairBreak Global Invitational T20 in September". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  6. "FairBreak Invitational 2023 Fixtures". Fairbreak. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  7. "FairBreak Invitational 2023 Teams List". Fairbreak. Retrieved 22 March 2023.

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