Asia Cup 2022: India vs Hong Kong- HK Playing 11 vs IND (Predicted), Match 04

Asia Cup 2022: India vs Hong Kong- HK Playing 11 vs IND (Predicted), Match 04. Defending champions India will face Hong Kong on 31st August, Wednesday at 7:30 pm IST after beating Pakistan by 5 wickets in their opening Asia Cup 2022 fixture. Hardik Pandya’s all-around brilliance powered India to a thrilling five-wicket win over arch-rivals Pakistan in an Asia Cup 2022 game on Sunday, 28th August 2022.

Hardik Pandya ended with figures of 3/25 in 4 overs while restricting Pakistan to 147 in 19.5 overs and then smashed 33 off 17 balls with the winning six in the last over bowled by left-arm spinner Mohammed Nawaz.

Hong Kong finished above Kuwait, UAE, and Singapore in the qualification round. Hong Kong played against Kuwait, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Singapore in the Asia Cup 2022 Qualifier. They won against all three teams and pipped Kuwait for the top spot.

They were also part of the last Asia Cup in 2018 and were in the same group as India and Pakistan. Incredibly, they will once again join the same two teams in the coming edition in Group A.

India and Hong Kong have faced each other in 2 matches in ODI. Out of these 2 games, India has won both the games whereas Hong Kong hasn’t come out victorious even once. Nizakat Khan and Anshuman Rath put up 174 for the opening stand in a chase of 286 but India’s bowlers pulled things back after Shikhar Dhawan’s 127 had set things up in their previous Asia Cup 2018 encounter in the ODI format.

Shikhar Dhawan’s 14th ODI century had carried India to 285 for 7, with Hong Kong’s bowlers negating a powerful start to allow only 48 runs in the last ten overs. They carried that buoyant momentum with them when they came out to bat, with openers Nizakat Khan and Anshuman Rath putting on a 174-run partnership, the highest for Hong Kong in ODIs.

India, after being inserted, was going great guns, courtesy of a 116-run stand between Ambati Rayudu (60) and Shikhar Dhawan (127). The latter got to a brilliant ton and when he was out there, India looked like crossing 300.

Debutant pacer Khaleel Ahmed got rid of Nizakat Khan who missed out on a well-deserved ton. He finished with a three-for along with spinner Yuzvendra Chahal who ran through the middle order. He too ended with three wickets to his name. Shardul Thakur had an off day, conceding 10.25 runs/over.

Asia Cup 2018: India 285 for 7 (Dhawan 127, Rayudu 60, Kinchit 3-39, Ehsan Khan 2-65) beat Hong Kong 259 for 8 (Nizakat 92, Rath 73, Chahal 3-46, Khaleel 3-48, Kuldeep 2-42) by 26 runs

In their previous ODI encounter in Asia Cup 2008, MS Dhoni and his team marked the 25th anniversary of India’s World Cup triumph with an emphatic 256-run win over Hong Kong in Karachi to begin their Asia Cup campaign in style.

India rested Yuvraj Singh and Ishant Sharma for this game, but they weren’t missed much as Suresh Raina and MS Dhoni helped themselves to centuries against a hapless bowling attack after Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir had built a platform, before spinner, Piyush Chawla flummoxed the Hong Kong batsmen.

Asia Cup 2008: India 374 for 4 (Dhoni 109*, Raina 101, Sehwag 78) beat Hong Kong 118 (Chawla 4-23) by 256 runs

Asia Cup 2022: HK Playing 11 (Predicted) vs IND, Match 04

Nizazat Khan

Yasim Murtaza and Nizakat Khan will probably open the inning. The skipper Nizakat Khan has scored 978 runs in 51 T20Is averaging 19.95 with 5 fifties and has taken 4 scalps with a best of 3/19 averaging 20.75. His last ODI came against India in Asia Cup 2018. He debuted in both the limited-overs formats in 2014. He will be the man to watch out for in Asia Cup 2022 fixture against India.

Yasim Murtaza

Yasim Murtaza and Nizakat Khan will probably open the inning. Left-arm batter Yasim Murtaza has played in 8 T20Is since debuting in 2022. He has scored 151 runs averaging 21.57 and has taken 7 scalps averaging 24.14 bowling slow left-arm orthodox. His best is 58 with the bat and 3/19 with the ball. He will be another man to watch out for in Asia Cup 2022 fixture against India.

Babar Hayat

Babar Hayat will bat at the one-down position. Babar Hayat also debuted in 2014 and has scored 758 runs in 32 T20Is averaging 29.15. He has hit 1 ton and 4 fifties in T20Is. In 2016, he scored his only ton against Oman(122). He will be another man to watch out for in Asia Cup 2022 fixture against India.

Kinchit Shah

Kinchit Shah and Aizaz Khan will handle the middle-order batting. Kinchit Shah will take care of the spin bowling of the team. The Mumbai-born left-hander Kinchit Shah has scored 633 runs in 43 T20Is averaging 20.41 with 3 fifties besides taking 11 scalps with his right arm off spin.

He debuted in 2014 in ODIs and T20Is. His last ODI came against India in Asia Cup 2018. He will be another man to watch out for in Asia Cup 2022 fixture against India.

Aizaz Khan

Kinchit Shah and Aizaz Khan will handle the middle-order batting. All-rounder Aizaz Khan debuted in both ODIs and T20Is in 2014 and has scored 414 runs in 47 T20Is averaging 12.93 besides taking 58 scalps averaging 18.93. He will be another man to watch out for in Asia Cup 2022 fixture against India.

Scott McKechnie

The wicketkeeper batter has scored 244 runs in 27 T20Is averaging 17.42 and has taken 12 catches and affected 9 stumpings. He debuted in 2017 in ODIs and in 2019 in T20Is.

Zeeshan Ali

Zeeshan Ali will do the Wicket Keeping for Hong Kong. He has scored 105 runs in 8 T20Is averaging 21. He debuted in 2022. He will be another man to watch out for in Asia Cup 2022 fixture against India.

Haroon Arshad

The right-arm pacer has picked 14 scalps in 22 T20Is averaging 23.42 with a best of 5/16 besides scoring 317 runs averaging 24.38. He debuted in 2019 and has played only T20I format. He will be another man to watch out for in Asia Cup 2022 fixture against India.

Ehsan Khan

Ehsan Khan has picked 39 scalps in 31 T20Is averaging 17.56 with a best of 4/24. He is a right-arm off-break spinner. He will be another man to watch out for in Asia Cup 2022 fixture against India.

Mohammad Ghazanfar

The leg spinner has picked 13 scalps from as many matches averaging 20.3 with a best of 3/22. He debuted in 2019. He will be another man to watch out for in Asia Cup 2022 fixture against India.

Ayush Shukla

Ayush Shukla will lead the pace attack of his team. The right arm medium pacer Ayush Shukla has picked 5 scalps in as many T20Is averaging 23.4 with a best of 3/30. The 19-year-old debuted in T20Is in 2022. He will be another man to watch out for in Asia Cup 2022 fixture against India.