IT has not quite reached the exalted status of the annual rugby Sevens, but Hong Kong's Cricket Sixes are heading in the right direction - as a few thousand heading in the direction of Cox's Road today will duly testify.
And, after a number of interesting and amusing discussions with local cameramen, directors and producers, a much wider audience will see the action via BBC World Television Enterprises.
Cricket is the quintessential English game, a gentlemanly sport that was played on grassy or dusty pitches from Lahore to Lagos when much of the world map was covered in imperial red.
It took root in many former colonies, none more so than India where, like the English language itself, it has since frequently found better expression than in the land of its inception.
Generally speaking, however, it has not flourished in the paddy fields of China, as it were, with the game in Hong Kong being very much the preserve of the expatriate community.
Strange though the timing may seem, with 1997 approaching almost as fast as a Curtly Ambrose delivery, there is a concentrated cricket development scheme now in operation to spread the gospel among Chinese schoolchildren and youngsters.