Dubai [UAE]: Hong Kong skipper Nizakat Khan won the toss and also chose to bowl first versus India in the 4th suit of the Asia Cup 2022 here at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Wednesday.
After a nail-biting triumph against Pakistan in a last-over thriller, scripted by Hardik Pandya, positive group India will certainly be looking to continue their winning run against Hong Kong too in their second as well as last group organization game. India and also Hong Kong played their previous 2 competitions in Asia Cups (2008, 2018) in the ODI layout. This will be the very first time both sides will mark their very first conference in a T20I.
Talking at the time of the toss, Hong Kong captain Nizakat Khan, “We are mosting likely to bowl initially. In Oman, we chased down well and that is what we are wanting to do. The last time we played India, it was a godo game and we understand we did some errors and want to see to it we capitalize on that. We have the exact same team we played against UAE.”
Speaking at the time of the toss, India captain Rohit Sharma, “We were mosting likely to bowl first as well. Resembles an also covering of lawn and we require to bat well to get to an excellent rating. We simply want to continue to do what we are doing as a team. We don’t intend to check out the resistance as well as play good and hard cricket. We need to do our fundamentals right, which is what obtained us a triumph against Pakistan. One modification: Hardik Pandya is relaxed taking into consideration just how important he is for us, Rishabh Pant comes in.”
Hong Kong (Playing XI): Nizakat Khan(c), Yasim Murtaza, Babar Hayat, Kinchit Shah, Aizaz Khan, Scott McKechnie(w), Zeeshan Ali, Haroon Arshad, Ehsan Khan, Ayush Shukla as well as Mohammad Ghazanfar.
India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja, Dinesh Karthik(w), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Yuzvendra Chahal and also Arshdeep Singh.
