Hong Kong chose to bowl vs India
Hong Kong captain Nizakat Khan chose to bowl against India, who made one change to their XI, resting Hardik Pandya and bringing in Rishabh Pant for their second group game in Dubai
This is Hong Kong’s first match at the 2022 Asia Cup; they made it to the tournament by winning all three of their games in the qualifying event in Oman. The last two of those wins had come while chasing and Nizakat said the team wanted to adopt the same strategy against India. They also picked the XI that had helped them script those two victories.
Ind vs HK TV channels details
The Asia Cup 2022 will be live-streamed on the Disney+ Hotstar app and website, and will live broadcast on Star Sports channels.
Watch Ind vs HK T20 live streaming on Star Sports Hotstar here.
Toss Update: Hong Kong have won the toss and they have opted to bowl first against #TeamIndia https://t.co/9txNRez6hL… #INDvHK #AsiaCup2022 pic.twitter.com/VpFooHagSa
— BCCI (@BCCI) August 31, 2022
India were looking to bowl first as well, and their captain Rohit Sharma said the side was focused on doing the basics right, as they had done against Pakistan. Hardik was given a break after his all round match-winning performance in oppressively hot conditions against Pakistan; Pant returned to the XI and took over the wicket-keeping duties from Dinesh Karthik.
Victory for India tonight will take them into the Super 4 round as the top team from Group A.
India: 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 KL Rahul, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Suryakumar Yadav, 5 Rishabh Pant (wk), 6 Dinesh Karthik, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 9 Avesh Khan, 10 Arshdeep Singh, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal
Hong Kong: 1 Nizakat Khan (capt), 2 Yasim Murtaza, 3 Babar Hayat, 4 Kinchit Shah, 5 Scott McKechnie (wk), 6 Haroon Arshad, 7 Aizaz
