{"id":4403,"date":"2022-09-02T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=243235"},"modified":"2022-09-02T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T14:24:09","slug":"asia-cup-live-hong-kong-opts-to-field-first-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/asia-cup-live-hong-kong-opts-to-field-first-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup Live: Hong Kong opts to field first"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ng-scope\">\n<div id=\"comm_1662125519631\" class=\"cb-col cb-col-100 ng-scope\">\n<p>Team Hong Kong won the toss and chose to field first against the tough opponent Pakistan. The hot favourites Hong Kong will carry their challenging experience from the defeat against India.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u00a0(Playing XI): Mohammad Rizwan(w), Babar Azam(c), Fakhar Zaman, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Shadab Khan, Asif Ali, Mohammad Nawaz, Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah, Shahnawaz Dahani<\/p>\n<div><b>Hong Kong<\/b>\u00a0(Playing XI): Nizakat Khan(c), Yasim Murtaza, Babar Hayat, Kinchit Shah, Aizaz Khan, Zeeshan Ali, Scott McKechnie(w), Haroon Arshad, Ehsan Khan, Ayush Shukla, Mohammad Ghazanfar<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ng-scope\">\n<div id=\"comm_1662125503001\" class=\"cb-col cb-col-100 ng-scope\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Babar Azam:<\/b>\u00a0We would have batted first. We wanted to put runs on the board and put them under pressure. We have the same team. Every match is a new match, so we\u2019ll try to play our best cricket. Our confidence is the same. It was a tight game (against India), looking forward to this game.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ng-scope\">\n<div id=\"comm_1662125452852\" class=\"cb-col cb-col-100 ng-scope\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ng-scope\">\n<div id=\"comm_1662125452842\" class=\"cb-col cb-col-100 ng-scope\">\n<p><b>Nizakat Khan:<\/b>\u00a0We are gonna bowl again. We are very good at chasing. We are going to make sure today that we stick to our plans and execute them. Back in Hong Kong, we play on slow, low wickets. This is very similar and we also rely on spin. We bowled well till the 13th over. Today, we have a very good plan and I am sure that the boys will do well. We are going with the same team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Hong Kong won the toss and chose to field first against the tough opponent Pakistan. The hot favourites Hong\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1585,194],"class_list":["post-4403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-asia-cup","tag-hong-kong"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}