Burke sets his objectives for Hong Kong role

New Hong Kong coach Charlie Burke has said that he plans to raise standards across Hong Kong cricket rather than just focus on the men's senior team.

Burke, who joins from the ICC East Asia-Pacific office, and starts his new post in May, wants to improve the domestic structure of cricket in Hong Kong.

"Initially I'd like to create an elite player pathway for the U-16s and U-19s to come into the national team and help develop a good structure and good competitions for the players and coaches," said Burke

Hong Kong have had some success in recent years having won the ACC Trophy Elite winners in 2008, ACC U-19 Elite winners in 2009 as well as ACC Women's Twenty20 Cup winners in the same year. Hong Kong also played in the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup for the first time in 2010.

"I've seen them play a fair bit recently, and at this stage it's just going to be a matter of getting the ones in the team to play more effectively. There's a fair amount of talent there but at Associate level you really don't play too many matches and the job at Hong Kong's about much more than the national men's and women's teams," said Burke