Hong Kong v United Arab Emirates - Asian Cricket Council Twenty20 Cup, 3rd Place Play-off – Live Score and Update
United Arab Emirates 166/7 (20/20 ov) v Hong Kong 134/8 (20.0/20 ov) - United Arab Emirates won by 32 runs
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033 won their third place play-off against Hong Kong by 32 runs at Pulchowk Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur (neutral venue) in the Asian Cricket Council Twenty20 Cup.
After being asked to bat first, UAE, had a terrible start as they lost their first wicket with only eight runs on the board. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Abdul-Shakoor-c41637 was the victim here as he had his stumps obliterated after scoring only seven runs.
Next to go was number-three batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Arshad-Ali-c76710, who fell against Irfan Ahmed after scoring only four runs. At the time of his dismissal, UAE were lingering on 13 runs.
The time then lost their third wicket of the day with only 25 runs on the board, as opener Wasim Bari perished with only for runs to his name. This was a terrible situation for UAE and needed a big knock from someone in the middle.
However, they lost another wicket still with only 25 on the board when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Amjad-Ali-c44076 was caught without opening his account.
SP Patil and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rohan-Mustafa-c86538 then forged a strong comeback as they led their side towards 81 runs, before this partnership also met its demise on the wicket of Mustafa, who found his way back to the pavilion after scoring 23 runs.
This brought http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-c71319, who dismissed Patil with 43 runs off his bat.
While Azam hammered 30 runs, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Amjad-Javed-c44094 played an unbeaten knock of 50 runs to help his side amass 166 runs for the loss of seven wickets by the end of their innings.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Irfan-c64444 Ahmed, who hit the showers after scoring 21 runs.
With http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Waqas-Barkat-c96198 taking charge the second-wicket partnership took the score to 42, before number-three batsman CK Kruger perished after smacking only two runs.
Hong Kong’s middle-order was comfortably halted by UAE bowlers from reaching the target as they could score only 134 runs with Waqas Barkat as the highest scorer for hammering a knock of 41 runs.
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