Editing Cricket (section)

=== Asia ===

China have stated that they aim to be a big force in international cricket by 2020, although to date they are yet to make an impact.  A type of bowler is called a "Chinaman" (a type of spin bowling) but other than that they have no real impact.  

Asia, however, have a lot of countries that support cricket to a reasonable extent.  These include:

* Afghanistan - in spite of the obvious problems relating to their civil war, the taliban and the invasion by USA in 2001, Afghanistan nonetheless has a reasonably good national side, who can compete against English county sides reasonably well.
* United Arab Emirates - they are just outside of the group that make the World Cup, and hope to make it one day.  They compete in the annual asian cup, although they usually get beaten easily by the major sub continent sides.
* Hong Kong - they are the base of the Hong Kong Sixes, and otherwise have a reasonable team, although perhaps not as good as UAE.

Most countries in Asia do not play cricket seriously, and even in the countries which have reasonable side most people would not have heard of it.