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Today, 24th June, 2 matches held in Asia Cup Cricket 2008. In the 1st Match, Pakistan faced Hong Kong in their first group match. Hong Kong had earlier got off to a dream start as Pakistan lost their in-form opener Salman Butt in the first over for a duck. But a Asia Cup record breaking 100 run eight-wicket stand between Sohail Tanvir and Fawad Alam helped Pakistan to collect 288 runs; Younis Khan 67, Fawad Alam 63*, Sohail Tanvir 59 and Nadeem Ahmed Got 4 wickets for 51 runs.

Faced with an intimidating target, Hong Kong’s batsmen were all at sea against Pakistan’s formidable fast bowling unit as they were unable to force the pace. A barrage of bouncers, especially from Umar Gul, discomforted the openers but they hung around for a while. Tabarak Dar and Zain Abbas scored respectively 24 and 26 while Sohail Tanvir, Umar Gul and Shahid Afridi got 2 wickets each – Pakistan won by 155 runs.

After a impressive century from Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful(109) and 83 from Raqibul Hasan, Bangladesh reached a pile of 300 runs. There was more reason to celebrate for Bangladesh as the left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak became the third bowler from his country to take 100 wickets when he ended Khurram Khan’s battling 78.

Defending a huge total, Javed gave UAE a flying start by taking ten runs off the first over bowled by Mashrafe Mortaza, hitting the first ball of the innings to the cover boundary before striking him over long-on in the sixth. But Mortaza had his revenge when he induced a top-edge from Javed, which was pouched by Tamim Iqbal. Indika Batuwitarachichi lasted only two balls, trapped by Shahadat Hossain. Arshad kept up the fight, punishing a couple of short balls from Mahmud. But when spin was introduced at both ends, UAE found the runs hard to come by. Mahmudullah, bowling quickish offbreaks, then accounted for UAE’s captain, Saqib Ali, who cut him uppishly to Shahadat at backward point.

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