beginning in 1920, malaya replaced the straits settlements in a regular series of interport matches against hong kong. in november of that year, they traveled to hong kong, playing matches against hong kong and shanghai. they beat hong kong by 35 runs, but lost to shanghai by an innings and 140 runs. following these two matches, they joined forces with the shanghai team to lose to hong kong by five wickets. the visit was repeated in november 1924, with malaya losing to shanghai by 89 runs and to hong kong by 2 wickets. they played hong kong at home in 1926, beating them by an innings and 112 runs on the padang in singapore.