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• Friends from the Sixes say good bye to Mike McCune

  9 March 2016 The funeral service for Mike McCune, deeply involved in the Chiang Mai Sixes for more than 15 years, was held at Wat Pra Paeng, a peaceful temple on the river not far from Gymkhana Club, on Tuesday 8th March after Mike had died on the previous… Read more

• Sad news for the Sixes: Mike McCune has died

  6 March 2016 The organizing committee of the Chiang Mai Sixes confirms the sad news that Mike McCune passed away on Saturday 5th March 2016. Mike was a long-standing and hard-working member of the committee who built and maintained the original Sixes website and… Read more

• Pattaya win 2016 Chiang Mai Big Bash

  14 February 2016 The 2016 Chiang Mai Big Bash was contested at Gymkhana Club on 13th and 14th February and it was bigger and better than ever before as three visiting teams joined local sides Lanna and CMCC in a five-team eight player aside tournament. Not the MCC… Read more

• Gymkhana Club retain Dick Wood Cup for sixth year in a row

  31 January 2016 British Club have been visiting Chiang Mai for 33 years and as Jack Dunford regularly explains Dick Wood was so captivated by the play of the visitors from Bangkok in that first year that he provided funds for a cup to be purchased for Gymkhana Club… Read more

• Kajang Panthers are fantastic tourists as the scores are tied but cricket is the winner

  23 January 2016 The visit of Kajan Panthers from Malaysia to Chiang Mai had been looked forward to greatly by both teams but nobody was expecting the special occasion that transpired on a sunny Saturday at Gymkhana as the match between Lanna and the Panthers was… Read more

• 17-year-old Thailand leg-spinner off to take part in Women’s Big Bash in Australia

  5 January 2016 Thailand recently staged the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Qualifier in and it was Bangladesh and Ireland which qualified for the Women’s World Twenty20 which will be played in India in March and April 2016. Thailand’s leg-spinner Suleeporn Laomi… Read more

• Bunchuai leads Lamphun to Lanna Eights glory

  12 December 2015 After the success of the inaugural Lanna Sixes last year it was intended to play a bigger and better version in 2015. The late withdrawal of various teams did not allow this but in typical Thai style a streamlined one-day eight-aside event was… Read more

• Ireland stun Bangladesh to win ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier in Bangkok

  5 December 2015 Ireland won the ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier when they beat Bangladesh by two wickets from the last ball of a dramatic final which came to a gripping climax under darkening skies, at Terdthai Cricket Ground in Bangkok. Zimbabwe had earlier… Read more

• Eight women's teams look to book a passage to India

  26 November 2015 The second edition of the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Qualifier is being held in Bangkok, capital of Thailand, from 28th November to 5th December with highly prized places at the T20 World Cup in India next year available to the leading two teams… Read more

• Lanna recover to share entertaining series with Pattaya

  15 November 2015 Lanna never quite recovered from losing three early wickets as their top three batsmen scoring only one run between them. Over-confidence may have been a factor as the beers began to flow on Friday evening and the visitors were told that Pattaya CC… Read more

• Lanna set to tour Pattaya 13th-16th November 2015

  6 November 2015 With Lanna CC about to embark on a momentous tour to Pattaya where the club will play two matches against regular opponents Pattaya CC at the delightful Thai Polo Ground, it is the perfect time to look back on the last visit by a Chiang Mai side to… Read more

• Nepal's Baluwater CC victorious in 8th Thailand International Sixes

  26 October 2015 Baluwater CC, capained and managed by former Hong Kong cricketer and coach Sher Lamma were welcomed to the eighth Thailand International Sixes held in Bangkok at the end of October as the first side to take part from the up and coming cricketing… Read more

• Bashundhara make it four out of four

  11 April 2015 Bashundhara Cricketeers won their fourth Cup title in succession as the Bangladesh side’s domination of the San Miguel Chiang Mai International Cricket Sixes is now complete as they have won the main competition in six of the last seven years. … Read more

• Kashmir CC win Ian McDougall Shield in UN Irish Sixes warm-up

  22 March 2015 Kashmir CC won the Ian McDougall Shield in the third edition of the UN Irish Sixes warm-up as six local teams battled for honours in a one-day competition at Gymkhana as players gained valuable practice for the San Miguel Chiang Mai International… Read more

• Friendship through cricket at the Thailand International Cricket Sixes

  26 October 2014 The Chaophya Park 7th Annual Thailand International Cricket Sixes Tournament 2014 was held at Harrow International School, Bangkok, between 24th and 26th October and there were many familiar faces on show in three days of competitive but above all… Read more

• Chiang Mai Sixes 2014 Finals Day Report

  5 April 2014 The 27th staging of the San Miguel Chiang Mai International Cricket Sixes saw the side from Bangladesh, the Walton Cricketeers, win the Cup for the third year in a row. Walton Cricketeers were undoubtedly the strongest side in the competition in 2014… Read more

• Chiang Mai’s annual festival of cricket

  28 March 2014 Cricketers from around the world will soon be arriving in the historic city of Chiang Mai as the 27th edition of the San Miguel Chiang Mai International Cricket Sixes gets underway on Sunday 30th March 2014. The Chiang Mai Sixes has been long… Read more