Asia Cup 2022: PAK vs HK Head To Head Data, Match 06. Pakistan will face Hong Kong within the sixth Match of Asia Cup 2022 in a Group A match at Sharjah on Friday, September 02, 2022. Hong Kong and Pakistan have confronted one another in 3 matches in Asia Cup tournaments. Out of those 3 video games, Pakistan has come out victorious every time. Pakistan has received all 3 ODIs towards Hong Kong.
Pakistan began its marketing campaign with a defeat to its arch-rivals India. However, Hong Kong will begin its marketing campaign towards India as effectively on thirty first August 2022. Pakistan might solely handle 147 runs earlier than getting all out. Mohammad Rizwan top-scored with 43 however Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s 4/26 and Hardik Pandya’s 3/25 helped India limit inside a chasable goal as effectively.
Whereas chasing, India too confronted a little bit of a hiccup however Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja saved their cool and sealed the deal as effectively. So far as Hong Kong is anxious, they’ve certified for the Asia Cup 2022 not too long ago. They completed unbeaten within the Asia Cup 2022 Qualifiers the place they took on the UAE within the ultimate and emerged victorious.
Whereas the match is vital for Pakistan to maintain their hope alive with a win, this match is not any much less for Hong Kong as they might attempt to go away a mark with a win as effectively in Asia Cup 2022.
It has been a tricky couple of years for Hong Kong cricket on both aspect of the COVID-stricken 2020 when even a easy outside coaching session was deemed inconceivable. The truth that the small cricketing nation additionally missed two successive T20I World Cups (2021 and 2022), ousted by slim margins within the qualifiers, damage additional.
Notably, within the earlier version in 2018, Hong Kong got here genuinely near beating India earlier than dropping by simply 26 runs in its ultimate ODI look. Nizakat Khan, who opened the batting for Hong Kong on the time, made 92 off 115. Because the chief of the unit now in Asia Cup 2022, he’s excited at being grouped alongside India and Pakistan in Group A.
Hong Kong has come the closest among the many Asian affiliate nations, who’ve been making an attempt to enter the den of the continental giants. In three of its 4 Asia Cup appearances in 2008, 2018, and 2022, Hong Kong has been immediately positioned alongside India and Pakistan within the group stage.
In Asia Cup 2022, Hong Kong may have an uphill process once they tackle overwhelming favourites, India on the Dubai Worldwide Stadium on thirtieth August 2022. Following their Asia Cup 2022 match towards defending champions India on Wednesday (Aug thirtieth), Nizakat Khan-led Hong Kong will tackle Babar Azam-led Pakistan of their second Group A encounter on Friday (Sept. 2) in Sharjah.
Asia Cup 2022: PAK vs HK Head To Head Data, Match 06
Of their earlier assembly in Asia Cup 2018 within the ODI format, Usman Khan Shinwari and Shadab Khan dismantled Hong Kong’s batting earlier than Imam-ul-Haq’s fifty guided them to an eight-wicket win. Usman Khan Shinwari finally decimated the lower-middle order resistance with three wickets in an over and Hong Kong folded for a meek 116 in 37.1 overs.
Pakistan 120 for two (Imam 50*, Azam 33, Ehsan Khan 2-34) beat Hong Kong 116 (Aizaz 27, Usman 3-18, Hasan 2-19, Shadab 2-31) by eight wickets
Of their second assembly in Asia Cup 2008, Nadeem Ahmed, the Hong Kong left-arm spinner, sliced via the Pakistan middle-order as what was anticipated to be a simple opening encounter for the hosts threatened to turn into a difficult one earlier than Sohail Tanvir and Fawad Alam’s rescue act.
The ultimate scoreline may point out an emphatic victory for Pakistan nevertheless it wanted an Asia Cup-record 100-run eighth-wicket stand between Sohail Tanvir (59) and Fawad Alam (63*) to arrange the win. Each of them made their maiden ODI half-centuries to carry Pakistan to 288, a rating which proved effectively past the attain of Hong Kong’s inexperienced batsmen.
Pakistan 288 for 9 (Younis 67, Alam 63*, Tanvir 59, Nadeem 4-51) beat Hong Kong 133 (Tanvir 2-20, Iftikhar Anjum 2-18, Shahid Afridi 2-31) by 155 runs
Of their first Asia Cup 2004 assembly at Colombo, Pakistan received by 173 runs (D/L technique). Shoaib Malik (118) and Younis Khan (144) scored tons as Pakistan scored 343/5. In reply, Hong Kong scored solely 165 chasing a revised goal of 339 runs from 47 overs. Shoaib Malik picked up 4 wickets and was named MOM for his all-around efficiency.
Younis Khan and Shoaib Malik scored well-paced centuries, shared a 223-run partnership, and took Pakistan to 343 for five, a rating that ended the match as a contest on the midway stage. As soon as this large rating was on the board, Hong Kong got here beneath immense stress and folded for 169, as Pakistan romped dwelling by 173 runs.
Pakistan 343 for five (Younis 144, Malik 118) beat Hong Kong 165 (Malik 4-19) by 173 runs (D-L technique)
Asia Cup 2022: Pakistan Possible Enjoying XI: Babar Azam(c), Mohammad Rizwan(w), Fakhar Zaman, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Asif Ali, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Shahnawaz Dahani
Asia Cup 2022: Hong Kong Possible Enjoying XI: Yasim Murtaza, Nizakat Khan (c), Babar Hayat, Kinchit Shah, Aizaz Khan, Scott Mckechnie, Zeeshan Ali (wk), Haroon Arshad, Ehsan Khan, Mohammad Ghazanfar, Ayush Shukla
