Sri Lanka (153/6) edge past Hong Kong (149/4) by 4 wickets in a thrilling encounter at the Asia Cup 2025

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No-ball.

Not good.

 

[BDfanforever]

That no ball will cost Hong Kong the match.

 

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No-ball.

Not good.

Six.

14 to win from 15 balls.

 

[saabir]

no ball totally changed the momentum in favour of SL..very hard to hit spinners here

 

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Four.

9 to win from 12 balls.

 

[Champ_Pal]

Costly no ball.

Lanka in control.

 

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SL win by 4 wickets with 7 balls to spare.

Hong Kong also played well.

Great game.

 

[Champ_Pal]

Hasaranga’s experience wins it for Lanka.

The way HK are fielding, they have no business to be playing in Asia cup. Not even club level.

 

[Justcrazy]

Sri Lanka won by 4 wickets (with 7 balls remaining)

Game became tight towards the end.

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Hong Kong put every team to shame with their embarrassing fielding. Lost count of the number of catches they dropped. Actually could have won the match had they held onto those.

 

[sweep_shot]

Hasaranga’s experience wins it for Lanka.

The way HK are fielding, they have no business to be playing in Asia cup. Not even club level.

They bowled well and batted okay.

 

[Champ_Pal]

They bowled well and batted okay.

Lanka played poorly and made the game closer than it should be. Any proper team would bundle this HK team for under 50.

 

[Cricket Warrior]

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Finally got a close match in this tournament. I'll be honest, not the one I expected

 

[sweep_shot]

Finally got a close match in this tournament. I'll be honest, not the one I expected

Yes. Best game of the tournament so far.

This Asia Cup has been quite boring. This was the first exciting match.

 

[jnaveen1980]

wow..scorecard says match was uber close. Seems like Honkong created some sort of record in dropping catches. Plus a crucial noball in death.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Bowling second in Dubai is tough as the conditions generally ease out but HK found a way to restrict SL.

HK spinners' figures by length

1. Full - 0/20 (9.23 economy)

2. Good - 1/22 ( 10.15 economy )

3. Short - 2/34 ( 5.82 economy)

Driving the ball into the pitch shorter than the 6m length still proved to be tough to play

 

[Human786]

SL boys took home anything between $ 200k to 300k for the fix imo . 149/4

 

[JaDed]

Credit to HK don't think Nepal would had been able to do that.