After the war, the Club continued to influence the local scene in other ways, with George Hong Choy as the Secretary of the Hong Kong Cricket League from the late 1940's to the early 1960's. In 1995, George was elected as a Honorary Vice-President of the HKCA in recognition of past services.
Cricket continued enthusiastically on the Happy Valley ground into the 1970's. Although there was limited success in the various competitions, C.C.C. always performed creditably and produced many players who went on to represent Hong Kong. Carl Myatt, John Ashworth, Buji Dhabher, George Souza Snr, Jalu Shroff, Des Greenwood, Martin Lever and Mark Eames to name only a few.
The day the Club re-opened after the War
The Club is deeply appreciative of the assistance from both the Association, and other Clubs who still have their own cricket facilities, in maintaining us as a cricket side.
The Club remains very proud of being the second oldest Cricket Club in Hong Kong, the oldest being the Hong Kong Cricket Club (HKCC) which dates from 1851, only 10 years after Captain Elliot first landed. Early in our history, the Club provided opportunities for cricketers from a range of Asian backgrounds. Up to the mid to late 1960's, the Club fielded strong sides consisting of cricketers from Hong Kong, Shanghai, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, peninsular Malaysia, Britain, Australia, and of Portugese origins.
From the beginning the Club was a melting-pot for local cricketers, when opportunities were not available elsewhere in Hong Kong. A number of our earliest members lived on Kowloon-side and had to travel over the harbour to Happy Valley for their cricket. Some of them and like-minded people in Kowloon helped to found the Kowloon Cricket Club in 1904 to provide facilities north of the harbour, and so inevitably drifted away from Happy Valley and Craigengower.
