Asia Cup 2018: India to take on minnows Hong Kong with eye on Pakistan

Under Rohit Sharma’s captaincy and with gifted M.S. Dhoni in their ranks, India will demeanour to get their multiple right in a initial diversion before a worse exam of Pakistan on that all eyes will rest

Asia Cup 2018: India to take on minnows Hong Kong with eye on Pakistan

Favourites India will demeanour to brush aside minnows Hong Kong in their Asia Cup opener on Tuesday and ready for a much-anticipated strife opposite arch-rivals Pakistan a subsequent day. Hong Kong, expectedly, mislaid to Pakistan by 8 wickets in their initial game. India, who even but talismanic skipper Virat Kohli, should give them a same treatment.

Under Rohit Sharma’s captaincy and with gifted M.S. Dhoni in their ranks, India will demeanour to get their multiple right in a initial diversion before a worse exam of Pakistan on that all eyes will rest. Besides Rohit, a likes of Shikhar Dhawan, K.L. Rahul and Kedar Jadhav supplement teeth to their batting while in a bowling department, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal chuck adult a lot of variety.

The Asia Cup will once again move to a front Dhoni’s batting frailties with age as his strike rate has been subsequent standard in new singular overs matches. The distinguished former India captain, famous for his large attack skills, has been a dark shade of his former self newly and will once again come underneath a scanner if a same trend continues. India’s center sequence is an emanate too and needs to be resolved forward of a World Cup subsequent year.

The Bumrah-Bhuvneshwar multiple will be behind in movement along with a Kuldeep-Chahal combination, that has been a solid set-up for past one year. Back in a brew after a behind injury, Bhuvneshwar will also demeanour to use a Hong Kong diversion as a warm-up forward of a Pakistan tie. He recently came behind to rival cricket for India A opposite South Africa A.

Squads: India: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, K.L. Rahul, Ambati Rayudu, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, M.S. Dhoni (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shardul Thakur, Dinesh Karthik, Khaleel Ahmed.

Hong Kong: Anshuman Rath (Captain), Aizaz Khan, Babar Hayat, Cameron McAulson, Christopher Carter, Ehsan Khan, Ehsan Nawaz, Arshad Mohammed, Kinchit Shah, Nadeem Ahmed, Raag Kapur, Scott McKehnie, Tanvir Ahmed, Tanvir Afzal, Waqas Khan, Aftab Hussain.

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