Litton Das guides Bangladesh away from Hong Kong shock in Asia Cup T20

Bangladesh debar upset successful Asia Cup opener aft skipper Litton Das hits a half-century successful 7 wicket T20 win.

Skipper Litton Das top-scored with 59 arsenic Bangladesh bushed a spirited Hong Kong by 7 wickets successful their archetypal lucifer of the Asia Cup.

Hong Kong posted 143-7 aft Nizakat Khan made 42 successful Thursday’s T20 gathering successful Abu Dhabi, wherever the minnows were invited to bat first.

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Bangladesh mislaid 2 aboriginal wickets successful their pursuit to rise Hong Kong’s hopes of an upset, but Litton enactment connected a basal of 95 with Towhid Hridoy, who made an unbeaten 35, to scope 144-3 successful 17.4 overs.

Litton reached his 50 successful 33 balls, but fell to medium-pace bowler Ateeq Iqbal earlier Towhid deed the winning run.

It was Hong Kong’s 2nd consecutive decision successful Group B, which includes Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. Afghanistan bushed Hong Kong by 94 runs successful the tourney opener.

Hong Kong mislaid 2 aboriginal wickets earlier Nizakat paired up with Zeeshan Ali, who made 30, successful a third-wicket basal of 41.

Litton Das of Bangladesh bats during the Asia Cup lucifer astatine Zayed Cricket Stadium [Francois Nel/Getty Images]

Nizakat past got into different concern of 46 with skipper Yasim Murtaza, who deed 28 disconnected 19 balls, arsenic the 2 counterattacked.

Murtuza was tally retired and leg-spinner Rishad Hossain struck doubly successful the adjacent over, including taking Nizakat’s cardinal wicket, arsenic the Hong Kong batting lineup stuttered towards the end.

Pace bowler Tanzim Hasan Sakib stood retired with figures of 2-21 from his 4 overs. Taskin Ahmed and Rishad besides took 2 wickets each.

In reply, Bangladesh slipped to 47-2 earlier Litton and Towhid rebuilt the innings and past bossed the absorption bowling.

Pakistan volition unfastened their run connected Friday against Oman successful Dubai.

Along with determination bragging rights, the Twenty20 contention volition service arsenic a build-up towards the T20 World Cup successful February-March successful India and Sri Lanka.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies