ALL-Rounder Azmatullah Omarzai’s Record-Breaking T20 Half-Tentary Highlighted Afghanistan’s Confident Start to the ASIA Cup 2025 in A 94-Run Win Over Hong Kong in Group BN TUSDAY
Omarzai (53) Smacked Five Sixes to Register Afghanistan’s Fastest T20 Half-Center-Off 20 Balls-and Opening Batter SDIQULLAH ATAL CASHED In On Three Dropped Catches to score an in innth 73 off 52 Balls in Afghanistan’s Total of 188-6.
Annexperienced Hong Kong Kong Got Squeezed Against Bot Pace And The Three Afghan Spinners Before It Struggled to Reach 94-9 with Babar Hayat (39) and Captain Yasim Murtaza (16) The on Breach the Double-Figure Mark.
Afghanistan’s Fielders Were Scratchy on the Field, Dropping Three Catches, But Still Brough Up TWO Close Run-Outs, And Karim Janat Made up for Dropping a Sitter at Chards Catch in in a brilliant divings The outfield.
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Are the Other Teams in Group B from which two teams Qualify for the Super 4 Stage of the Tournament.
Afghanistan Had the Game Closed Out Inseed The Eventful Batting PowerPlay that Saw a Bizarre Caught Behind of Anshy Rath, Two Run-Auts, and Two Dropped Catches.
Rath Surprisingly Didn’T go for a TLEVIGION Referral when Replays Showed There was a huege gap between bat and ball as he tried to drive fazalhaq Farooqi’s (2-16) FIRST BALL He FACED.
Rashid Khan Had Nizakat Khan Run Out of a Direct Throw, And Omarzai Hit the Stumps in His Follow-Through to Run Out Kallu as Hong Kong Kong Kong Kongn Bollywood to 22-4 Inside the Fir Overs.
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In Between a Flurry of Wickets Both Chalu and Hayat Got Reprieves when Afghanistan Fielders Missed Out Sitters.
However, the three spinners – khan, noor ahmad and am ghazanfar – Choked Hong Kong Further by Conceding Just 44 Runs in 10 overs between them with Khan and Ahmad Grabbing One Wickett Ekh.
Hayat Showed A Bryef Spark by Smacking Three Sixes in his 43-Ball Knock but his vigil ended in the 13th over when he splicted a catch of fast bowler gulbadin nai (2-8) as Hong Kong Kong Kong Kong Kong Kong Kong Kong Kong Kong Kong Kong’S Going.
Hong Kong Spinners were tidy on the Slow Wicket Before Omarzai Teed off with a blistering fifth-wicket partnership of 82 runs with atal off just 3 balls.
Afghanistan, which was bowled out for 66 in the tri-series Final Against Pakistan on Sunday, Had a frustrating start when when atal got his first life in the very fired Over before rahmanullah guran Batting form in uae continued and the opener was dismissed for 8 in the third over.
Atal Hit His Third Half-Tentary in his Last Four T20s and Profited from Hong Kong’s Lapses in the field. Murtaza featured in all three chances against atal as he twice dropped the batter.
Afghanistan was 119-4 in 16 overs Before Omarzai’s ONSLAUGHT AgAinst Pace Fetched His Team 69 Runs Off The Final Four overs.
Omarzai Played Some Impressive Ramp Shots Over the Head of the Head of the Wicketkeper and Raised His Half-Tentury by Smashing Three Successive Sixes and A Fast Bowler Ayush Sukla ‘(2-54) pen Over of the Afghan Innings Before He HOL.
Published on Sep 10, 2025
