Malaya cricket team
The Malaya cricket team represented the combined territories of the Federated Malay States and the Straits Settlements in cricket matches between 1906 and 1961.
History
[edit]Early days
[edit]Cricket has been played in Peninsular Malaysia since at least the 1850s.[1] The first match between the Federated Malay States and Straits Settlements was played in 1905[2] and the combined Malaya team first played the following year, against Burma in Yangon, though the result is not known. Two matches were played against Australia in 1909.[1]
Beginning in 1920, Malaya replaced the Straits Settlements in a regular series of Interport matches against Hong Kong.[1] In November of that year, they traveled to Hong Kong, playing matches against Hong Kong and Shanghai.[3] They beat Hong Kong by 35 runs,[4] but lost to Shanghai by an innings and 140 runs.[5] Following these two matches, they joined forces with the Shanghai team to lose to Hong Kong by five wickets.[6] The visit was repeated in November 1924,[7] with Malaya losing to Shanghai by 89 runs[8] and to Hong Kong by 2 wickets.[9] They played Hong Kong at home in 1926, beating them by an innings and 112 runs on the Padang in Singapore.[10]
In June 1927, Australia, captained by Bert Oldfield, visited Malaya, and the Malayan side won the first match by 39 runs, their only win against a Test-playing nation.[11] A third visit to Hong Kong was made in November that year,[12] with Malaya losing by an innings to Shanghai[13] and Hong Kong.[14] In 1929, they lost to Shanghai by 1 wicket,[15] and to Hong Kong by four wickets.[16] The final visit in 1933 saw Malaya beat Hong Kong by 14 runs,[17] before gaining their first win over Shanghai by beating them by 50 runs.[18]
Later matches
[edit]Little is known of Malaya's matches after World War II. The two results that are known are that Malaya beat Hong Kong by 1 wicket in a fixture in December 1959,[1] and drew with the MCC in March 1961.[19]
Players
[edit]The following players played for Malaya and also played first-class cricket:
- Gerald Livock - played for Middlesex between 1925 and 1927.[20]
- Robert Phayre - played for the Europeans in India in 1928/29.[21]
- Alfred Hill - played for Warwickshire in 1920.[22]
- Edward Armitage - played for Hampshire between 1919 and 1925.[23]
- Neville Foster - played for Worcestershire between 1914 and 1923.[24]
- Charles Congdon - played for the Royal Navy between 1921 and 1929.[25]
- Robert Braddell - played for Oxford University and the MCC between 1908 and 1911.[26]
- Herbert Hopkins - played for Worcestershire between 1921 and 1931.[27]
- Lall Singh - played Test cricket for India in 1932.[28]
- William Smith - played for Scotland in 1927.[29]
- Victor Croome - played for the Royal Air Force between 1928 and 1930.[30]
- Thomas Hart - played for Oxford University and Scotland between 1931 and 1934.[31] Hart also played twice for the Scotland rugby union team in 1930.[31]
See also
[edit]- Federated Malay States cricket team
- Straits Settlements cricket team
- Malaysia national cricket team
- Singapore national cricket team
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Encyclopaedia of World Cricket by Roy Morgan, Sports Books Publishing
- ^ Scorecard of Federated Malay States v Straits Settlements, 4 February 1905 at CricketArchive
- ^ Interport matches 1920/21 at CricketArchive
- ^ Scorecard of Hong Kong v Malaya, 9 November 1920 at CricketArchive
- ^ Scorecard of Shanghai v Malaya, 12 November 1920 at CricketArchive
- ^ Scorecard of Hong Kong v Shanghai and Malaya
- ^ Interport matches, 1924/25 at CricketArchive
- ^ Scorecard of Shanghai v Malaya, 16 November 1924 at CricketArchive
- ^ Scorecard of Hong Kong v Malaya, 18 November 1924 at CricketArchive
- ^ Scorecard of Malaya v Hong Kong, 28 May 1926 at CricketArchive
- ^ History of Malaysian cricket
- ^ Interport matches 1927/28 at CricketArchive
- ^ Scorecard of Shanghai v Malaya, 23 November 1927 at CricketArchive
- ^ Scorecard of Hong Kong v Malaya, 27 November 1927 at CricketArchive
- ^ Scorecard of Shanghai v Malaya, 5 November 1929 at CricketArchive
- ^ Scorecard of Hong Kong v Malaya, 13 November 1929 at CricketArchive
- ^ Scorecard of Hong Kong v Malaya, 6 November 1933 at CricketArchive
- ^ Scorecard of Shanghai v Malaya, 15 November 1933 at CricketArchive
- ^ Scorecard of Malaya v MCC, 18 March 1961 at CricketArchive
- ^ Gerald Livock at CricketArchive
- ^ Robert Phayre at CricketArchive
- ^ Alfred Hill at CricketArchive
- ^ Edward Armitage at CricketArchive
- ^ Neville Foster at CricketArchive
- ^ Charles Congdon at CricketArchive
- ^ Robert Bradell at CricketArchive
- ^ Herbert Hopkins at CricketArchive
- ^ Lall Singh at CricketArchive
- ^ William Smith at CricketArchive
- ^ Victor Croome at CricketArchive
- ^ a b "Thomas Hart". Cricket Archive. 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2013.