Mark Ian Neil Eames (born 19 August 1961) is a former international

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er who represented the Hong Kong national side between 1988 and 2007. He played as a left-handed top-order batsman. Eames was born in

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, and played club cricket in England before relocating to Hong Kong. He made his international debut for Hong Kong at the 1988 South East Asian Tournament, which also featured

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and

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. Over the next few years, Eames made regular appearances for Hong Kong in regional tournaments, including the

Tuanku Ja'afar Cup The Tuanku Ja'afar Cup was a cricket tournament contested by the national sides of Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. It is named in honour of the late Tuanku Jaafar, the former Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan and Yang di- ...

.Miscellaneous matches played by Mark Eames
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 March 2016. His first global tournament was the

1994 ICC Trophy The 1994 ICC Trophy (formally the ABN AMRO ICC Trophy) was a cricket tournament that took place in Kenya between 12 February and 6 March 1994. It was the fifth ICC Trophy tournament to be staged, and acted as the Cricket World Cup qualification t ...

in Kenya, where he played in all seven of his team's matches.ICC Trophy matches played by Mark Eames
–CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 March 2016. He had little success, however, scoring only 76 runs from six innings. Eames also had little success at the

1996 ACC Trophy The 1996 ACC Trophy was a cricket tournament in Malaysia, which took place from 6 to 16 September 1996. It gave Associate and Affiliate members of the Asian Cricket Council experience of international one-day cricket and also helped form an essen ...

in Malaysia, with his best performance being an innings of 43 runs against

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. At the

1997 ICC Trophy The Carlsberg 1997 ICC Trophy was a cricket tournament played in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia between 24 March and 13 April 1997. It was the Cricket World Cup qualification tournament for the 1999 Cricket World Cup. Bangladesh were the winners of the t ...

, Eames again played in all of Hong Kong's matches, and was ranked fifth for runs amongst his teammates, scoring 136 runs from eight innings. His highest score, 33, came against

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. For two games at the

2000 ACC Trophy The 2000 ACC Trophy was a cricket tournament held from 15 to 24 November 2000 in the United Arab Emirates. It gave Associate and Affiliate members of the Asian Cricket Council experience of international one-day cricket and also helped form an es ...

, Eames was moved up the order to open the batting, scoring eleven runs against

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and three runs against the

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(UAE). The following year, he appeared in a third consecutive ICC Trophy, featuring in four matches and scoring 45 from 44 balls against Papua New Guinea (part of a 120-run partnership with

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). In 2004, Eames represented Hong Kong in the

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, through which the team qualified for the

2005 Intercontinental Cup The 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup was the second edition of the ICC Intercontinental Cup, a cricket competition for (then) 12 nations from Asia, Africa, North America and Europe. All the games were scheduled for three days and were designated ...

. Aged 39, he appeared in an Intercontinental Cup fixture against the UAE in April 2005, which held first-class status.First-class matches played by Mark Eames
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 March 2016. His last games for Hong Kong came at the age of 41, in the 2007 World Cricket League Division Three tournament.

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