Hong Kong vs PNG
The 3rd match out of 6 in 2023 Malaysia Tri-Nation T20I series between Hong Kong and Papua New Guinea has overd. Hong Kong won the toss and decided to bowl and this decision did not work in their favor. PNG team scored 163 runs in 20 overs and losing 5 wicket. PNG set a good target but Hong Kong struggled to chase it down but they failed. Hong Kong is considered weak team in this series and previous match performance was also not too much great. This was Hong Kong's second match in thi series and they lost again. Hong Kong managed to score 139 runs in 20 overs and lost 9 wickets. If they continue to play like this it will be difficult for Hong Kong to win this series. They need to improve their batting performance significantly.
After the win in this match, PNG position on the points table has stabilized and they have reached the first place with 4 points. While Hong Kong has lost both its matches and moved to the third position. I think 163 runs is not a high score in a T20 match, and none of the batsmen in the PNG team showed a great performance,but the Hong Kong team failed to build on that score and its batting line proved too weak.
Asad vala, the captain of PNG, played an innings of 45 runs, apart from that, no one showed a good performance,but one highlight was that all the batsmen except opener tony ura scored between 15 and 25 which made the score reach 163 runs.Babar Hayat played a brilliant innings of 62 runs from Hong Kong, but his innings did not work for his team,because the performance of the rest of the team's batsmen was very poor.Of course, if the Hong Kong team continues to play like this, it will have to face difficulties in the rest of the matches as well. They need to focus on their batting.