Twenty years after the first Shanghai CC game of the modern era, Craigengower CC from Hong Kong will tour with many of their original line-up to replay the match against an SCC Veterans side on October 19 at Wellington College Cricket Ground. Continue reading “Craigengower CC Return for 20th Anniversary of First Tour”
Considered “one of the finest and hardest hitters of his day,” Edward Ivo Medhurst Barrett captained the Shanghai cricket team in the early part of the 20th century, becoming the club’s top scorer with 857 runs from 14 matches.
Barrett was a right-handed batsman known for a “sound defence with well-timed ground strokes all round the wicket.” He played his first match for Shanghai on October 22nd and 23rd, 1908, where he scored 29 runs over two innings (27, 2*) in a match between the SCC and the Hong Kong Cricket Club.
His highest individual score came in Shanghai in 1921 against the Hong Kong Cricket Club where he scored 165 runs in one innings as Shanghai beat Hong Kong by an innings and 160 runs. Continue reading “Shanghai Cricket Club’s Greatest Batsman”
A cricket club’s blazer is an important item of clothing – its colours and pattern instantly identify the wearer as a part of an exclusive membership. It is as much a part of cricket as the bat and balls, the wickets and whites.
With the creation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Shanghai Cricket Club entered a long phase of dormancy. With almost all foreigners leaving Shanghai in 1948, the cricket club effectively closed. It was not until the late 1990s that cricket was once again played in Shanghai. Continue reading “The Shanghai Cricket Club Blazer”
