The Chiang Mai International Cricket Sixes is a 'by-invitation only' event. We are pleased to invite and welcome several new teams every year, while preference is traditionally given to teams that have participated in previous tournaments. Invitations for the 17th Chiang Mai Sixes in 2004 were sent out in OCTOBER 2003.

The 17th Chiang Mai International Cricket Sixes Thailand, is scheduled for Sunday April 4 - Saturday April 10, 2004, at the Chiangmai Gymkhana Club ground in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

New teams interested in taking part in the 2004 Chiang Mai Sixes should contact World Teams Co-ordinator, Rick Davis as soon as possible. Rick, also known to friends and the Sixes's faithful as 'Viking', can be contacted on : chiangmaisixes@hotmail.com for ALL TOURNAMENT RELATED MESSAGES, and mrviking@hotmail.com for ALL OTHER CORRESPONDENCE (Any Sixes's regulars who have changed e-mail contact are also reminded to inform Viking of their new details.)

The Chiang Mai Sixes is a not for profit event run by volunteers. It is an amateur club cricketer's competition, in which teams are allowed to play, in any one match, only 1 player who is deemed a current first class professional or former international 'star' player. (Usually several 'star' players are invited to the Sixes, and if not already travelling with a team they are assigned to play with teams that request a guest star.)

The event's guiding philosophy is 'making friends through the sport of cricket', and to this end, the social side of the tournament is treated with the same enthusiasm as the cricket.

What You Get

• Teams entered for the Chiang Mai Sixes can register up to 8 players for the event (you can bring as many people as you like, but only 8 will be registered to play).
• A team entry fee (announced in the October invitation), is payable once your team has been given a tournament slot.
• The entry fee covers: a team assigned mini-bus + driver& guide for the tournament duration; 2 x Chiang Mai Sixes tournament shirts + 1 x cricket hat per player; 8 copies of the programme with details of all teams, playing schedule etc.; team entry to 3 catered, evening social events during the tournament week; your team 'tent' with tables & seats on the boundary at the cricket ground; a week's six a side cricket including a minimum of 5 matches per team (more if you make the semis or finals); winner or runner up awards for members of each team taking part in a final.

Tournament Format

Four tournament trophies are played for at Chiang Mai Sixes: Cup, Bowl, Plate and Spoon. This accomodates a generally pretty high class of cricket competing for the Sixes'Cup and Bowl, to a good average standard at Plate level, and a 'social cricketer' standard in the Spoon competition.

The exact play off format depends on the final number of teams entered. However, in the basic schedule teams are assigned to first round groups, which play in round robin format to decide who goes forward to compete for the Sixes'Cup, Bowl, or Plate in the next round. Spoon division teams are pre-defined and play their own separate round-robin to decide finalists.

For information or queries on team entry for the Chiang Mai Sixes contact : Dr. Richard Davis at chiangmaisixes@hotmail.com.