Hong Kong’s embarrassing defeat, allout at 38, on Sunday, then India-Pakistan match

Pakistan team led by Babar Azam has made it to the super-four of the Asia Cup 2022. In the match played at Sharjah Cricket Ground, Pakistan defeated Hong Kong by 155 runs. Pakistan had set a target of 194 runs in front of Hong Kong, in front of which the Hong Kong team looked helpless and the entire team was bundled out for 38 runs.

Afghanistan, India and Sri Lanka had already made their place in the Super-four. Now after making a place in the super-four of Pakistan, cricket fans are going to see a blockbuster match once again. India and Pakistan will once again clash at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday.

Pakistan register a comprehensive victory to make it to the Super Four 💪#PAKvHK | #AsiaCup2022 | 📝 Scorecard: https://t.co/68o82bXiuU pic.twitter.com/YuTKXrPyMH

— ICC (@ICC) September 2, 2022

Chasing the target, Hong Kong’s team was backfoot from the beginning and none of its batters could even touch double digits. Captain Nizakat Khan played the highest innings of 8 runs. For Pakistan, Shadab Khan took four and Mohammad Nawaz took three wickets. On the other hand, Naseem Shah took two and Shahnawaz Dahani took one wicket.

Babar Azam was again a flop

Earlier, batting first after losing the toss, Pakistan scored 193 runs for two wickets. The way the Hong Kong bowlers had put the Indian batsmen under pressure in the beginning, in the same way they did not allow Pakistan to start well. The result was that Babar Azam was dismissed after scoring just 9 runs. He played a shot in the air on the ball of spinner Ehsan Khan, whose bowler caught it easily.

Rizwan-Zaman took over

After this, Rizwan and Fakhar Zaman started scoring runs comfortably. Pakistan had scored only 64 runs for one wicket in the first ten overs. But after the end of ten overs, the Pakistani team started accelerating their run-rate. Rizwan hit the first six of the Pakistani innings in the 11th over. On the other hand, Fakhar Zaman also scored a lot of runs on the spinners after this.

Khushdil wreaks havoc in the last over

Mohammad Rizwan started playing fast after scoring a half-century off 42 balls. But the real devastation was caused by Khushdish Shah, who came out to play after the dismissal of Fakhar Zaman. Khushdil Shah scored 35 not out off just 15 balls, which included 5 sixes. In the 20th over bowled by Aijaz Khan, 29 runs were scored, which included four sixes hit by Khushdil. Talking about Mohammad Rizwan, he remained unbeaten on 78 runs in 57 balls. At the same time, Fakhar Zaman contributed 53 runs.