Hong Kong badly Defeated by India in Asia cup

There wasn't anything different on view on Wednesday from the previous day. Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat as the Indian batsmen made a mockery of hapless Hong Kong bowling attack to make a mammoth 374 for four, the highest Asia Cup total.
In reply, the Hong Kong batsmen crumbled to meagre 118 runs in the 36. The writing was on the wall for Hong Kong after India piled up the mountain of runs. Dhoni then featured in three stumpings behind the wickets off legspinner Piyush Chawlam, who took 4-23. Indian openers Virender Sehwag (78) and Gautam Gambhir (51) gave a perfect start to the innings as they feasted on a lacklustre Hong Kong attack.
Atkinson offered some resistance after an early setback, but Piyush Chawla ended the resistance with a four-wicket haul. Dar and Atkinson then put up a 45-run stand for the second-wicket but once the skipper was dismissed, Hong Kong batsmen lacked confidence in negotiating the Indian attack.
Rohit Sharma, coming after Sehwag’s dismissal, was the only Indian batsman to fall cheaply when he was run out by Nadeem Ahmmed on 11. Rohit’s departure brought Raina, whose blitzkrieg 101 off 68 balls is the second fastest hundred by an Indian. Sehwag then closed the Hong Kong innings with two wickets on successive deliveries as he first clean bowled Afzaal Haider and then had Nadeem Ahmed caught behind the wickets, giving Dhoni his fourth victim of the innings. Raina’s cracking innings had seven boundaries and five sixes. Skipper Dhoni played a second foil, as he along with Raina piled up 166 for the fourth wicket, which is also an Asia Cup record. Raina's first hundred included seven fours and five sixes. The fall of Sehwag, as it always does, brought the much-needed respite for Hong Kong and the subsequent quick fall of Gambhir and Rohit Sharma further lifted the spirits of the minnows.


Sehwag hit 13 fours and two sixes. Dhoni touched the three-figure mark after consuming balls and helped himself with with six sixes and five fours to anchor the innings. Singh sent opener Skhawat Ali back to pavilion in the second over and from then on Hong Kong batsmen wilted under pressure while trying to accelerate. The batsmen could not put up any partnership. Raina, in particular, unleashed a ferocious assault, matching the one let loose by Sehwag, leaving the bowlers and fielders scampering for cover. Such was his pace that he brought up his maiden century in just 66 balls – the second fastest century by an Indian. . . .