Do you know your Hung Hom Jaguars from your Kowloon Cantons?

Teams, TV times, fixtures and more ahead of the third edition of the Hong Kong Blitz, which gets under way this week

^{The Hong Kong Blitz is back}

The third edition of the Hong Kong Blitz takes place this week, with plenty of familiar names in action during the T20 tournament.

So what is it all about, who exactly is involved and how can you watch it at home?

Luckily, The Cricketer has all the answers.

What’s going on then?

Pay attention, we’ve covered that already. It’s the Hong Kong Blitz.

Is that some kind of dance?

No dummy, it’s a franchise T20 tournament which takes place in… have you guessed yet… Hong Kong.

Ah okay. So when does it start?

The action gets under way on Tuesday, February 6 and lasts for six days, with the final due to take place on Sunday, February 11.

The games will be staged at the Tin Kwong Road Recreation Ground in Mong Kok.

^{Darren Sammy is involved in this year's competition}

Who’s taking part?

The competition is made up of five teams, each fairly randomly named. They are: Galaxy Gladiators Lantau, HKI United, City KaiTak, Kowloon Cantons and Hung Hom JD Jaguars.

Thanks for that. So who’s playing for each team?

Well, there are a lot of names you’d expect to see in T20 tournaments such as this - Darren Sammy, Samuel Badree et al - with Kumar Sangakarra the highest profile of the lot. Jofra Archer was due to take part before pulling out late on.

Here are the squads in full…

Kowloon Cantons: Babar Hayat, Ehsan Nawaz, Ryan Buckley, Waqas Khan, Hussain Butt, Adeel Shafrique, Simandeep Singh, Hassan Khan, Saad Mahmood, Sunny Bhimsaria, Bobby Chan, Dwayne Smith, Samit Patel, Ashar Zaidi, Wahab Riaz, Paul van Meekeren

Hung Hom JD Jaguars: Kinchit Shah, Nizakat Khan, Adil Mehmood, Aarush Bhagwat, Tanveer Ahmed, Ninad Deveng Shah, Kyle Christie, Scott Mckechnie, Nadeem Ahmed, Damien Yee, Rana Nasrulla, Ben Laughlin, Riki Wessels, Darren Sammy, Johan Botha, Roelof van der Merwe

City Kaitak: Anshuman Rath, Aizaz Khan, Waqas Barkat, Jamie Atkinson, Manjinder Singh, Kalhan Marc Challu, Ishtiaq Muhammad, Mudassar Hussain, Raag Kapur, Siegfried Wai, Sohail Tanvir, Ravi Bopara, Samuel Badree, Rayad Emrit, Kyle Coetzer

HKI United: Ehsan Khan, Tanwir Afzaal, Yasim Murtaza, Daniyal Bukhari, Zeeshan Ali, Jason Lui, Suhaib Ahmad, Ahsan Abbsai, Chris Carter, Hamed Khan, Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Irfan, David Wiese, Luke Ronchi, Hussain Talat, Ryan Ten Doeschate

Galaxy Gladiators Lantau: Haroon Arshad, Karandeep Singh, Li Kai-ming, Mohammed Osama, Imran Arif, Amandeep Singh, Shahid Wasif, Muhammad Balal, Moner Dar, Awais Mohammad, Kumar Sangakkara, James Franklin, Seekkuge Prasanna, Cameron Delport, Chetan Suryawanshi

What’s the format of the competition?

A round-robin group stage, where everyone plays everyone else once, precedes a final.

Each team are allowed six overseas players, five of which can play in each game. One must come from an ICC Associate nations - there are representatives from the Netherlands, Singapore and Scotland in this year’s event.

The remainder of the squad of 16 is made up from Hong Kong's domestic talent.

^{The games will be played at the Tin Kwong Road Recreation Ground in Mong Kok}

Can I watch it on TV?

Yes. Yes, you can.

BT Sport have the broadcasting rights for the whole thing for UK viewers.

Fox Sports (Australia), OSN (Middle East), Neo Sports (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka & Bangladesh), ESPN Caribbean and StarTimes (Africa) have the rights elsewhere in the world.

There is also a live stream available via the Hong Kong YouTube and Facebook channels.

What time are the games?

Out in Hong Kong, the matches are scheduled for two time slots - 10am and 2pm. Working in good old time difference, that makes the start times 2am and 6am for all of us over here in the UK.

Who plays when?

We’ll make this easy. Here’s the fixture list:

February 6: City Kaitak vs Hung Hom JD Jaguars (6am GMT)

February 7: City Kaitak vs HKI United (2am), Kowloon Cantons vs Galaxy Gladiators Lantau (6am)

February 8: Hung Hom JD Jaguars (2am), Kowloon Cantons (6am)

February 9: Galaxy Gladiators Lantau vs Hung Hom JD Jaguars (2am), Kowloon Canton vs City Kaitak (6am)

February 10: Galaxy Gladiators Lantau vs City Kaitak (2am), Hung Hom JD Jaguars vs HKI United (6am)

February 11: HKI United vs Kowloon Cantons (2am), Final (6am)

Thanks very much

You are very welcome