After Hong Kong stumbled at the final 2024 Asia Cup qualifying hurdle, Kary Chan Ka-ying spent five navel-gazing days hiding from the outside world.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can still remember the pain in my heart \u2026 I kept asking myself, \u2018what if I\u2019d done something differently?\u2019\u201d Chan said.<\/p>\n
Two years later and rather than being cooped up indoors, Chan is with her teammates preparing for a Women\u2019s Twenty20 Asia Cup in Dubai where Hong Kong have the redoubtable task of facing Thailand, Pakistan and mighty India.<\/p>\n
Chan was among the players who spent a short time in hospital after illness swept through the camp during their ongoing preparation trip to Sri Lanka, but it would take more than a bout of bellyache to dampen enthusiasm over the city team\u2019s return to the tournament after 14 years away.<\/p>\n
In 2012, proficient all-rounder Chan was a wide-eyed 15-year-old who \u201cwasn\u2019t even given a chance to run water onto the field \u2026 I sat next to the coach to learn\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom then, playing in the Asia Cup became one of my life dreams,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Hong Kong stumbled at the final 2024 Asia Cup qualifying hurdle, Kary Chan Ka-ying spent five navel-gazing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[437209,437210,21425,64,63,740,5951,96841,10340,136925,1209,317155,437208,317159,317158,15299,85,1210,3725],"class_list":["post-868437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-aldershot-cricket-club","tag-anita-miles-foundation","tag-asia-cup","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-dubai","tag-harmanpreet-kaur","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-sports-institute","tag-india","tag-kary-chan-ka-ying","tag-mahela-jayawardena","tag-mamatha-maben","tag-natasha-miles","tag-pakistan","tag-sports","tag-sri-lanka","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}