Hong Kong have pulled an absolute stunner and beaten the UAE today to seal their place in the Asia Cup. At the start of the day’s play 3 of
the 4 teams could have been in with a shot of qualifying however the evening
match turned into a straight shoot out between Hong Kong – who had won both of
their first two games and, the UAE who had a 50-50 record. UAE, the twelfth
ranked team in the world were then comprehensively beaten by Hong Kong after having
already been downed by Kuwait (ranked 27th) earlier in the week.
In terms of Hong Kong players to look out for when they face
off against Messrs Azam and Sharma next week, the tournament’s highest scorer
Yasim Murtaza is clearly a talent. He got 130 at a strike rate of 125 and an
average of 43.33. Meanwhile Ehsan Khan has looked a very competent T20 bowler bagging
9 @ 9.
In terms of the best of the eliminated teams; the ever-present
Chirag Suri got the tournament’s highest score – 88 off 61 balls for the UAW in
their loss to Kuwait whilst Yasin Patel got the best figures for a bowler – 4-22
for Kuwait against Singapore.
The main event starts on Saturday with Sri Lanka against
Afghanistan at 3PM UK time. For those who have Sky it is apparently being shown
on Ustav Gold – channel 717.
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