Asia Cup 2022: Pakistan to face Hong Kong in virtual knock out for place in last four

02.09.2022 - 10:49 timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Given the recent form of Hong Kong, it will not be a walk in the park for the Pakistani team. Hong Kong have recently been in a rich vein of form, winning the qualifying tournament and remaining unbeaten.

They ran India close in the previous edition of the tournament, and the last thing Pakistan would want to do is write them off.

Hong Kong will also be aware of the fact that Pakistan are yet to register a T20I win this year. Pakistan have played two T20Is this year, facing defeat in both of them.

The first came against Australia while the second defeat was handed to them by the men in blue in their first match of the Asia Cup.

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