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*Official* Emerging Nations Cricket Thread

Daemon

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Good to see Lamichhane playing senior cricket and picking up 3 wickets. Dominated the U19 WC Qualifiers.
 
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Does it with the bat and does it with the ball. Former skipper Tanwir Afzal leading front the front.

neat bit of keeping from Atkinson too, following his 76. Skipper leading from the front as well.
 
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Aizaz so good.

Apparently he used to be really rapid when younger. All these top class 120 kmph bowlers must have the ability to bowl 130+. That way they can bowl within themselves and have this great control and all their tricks.
 
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Hong Kong vs Afghanistan, 24th Match, ICC Intercontinental Cup, 2015-17 | Cricbuzz.com

No live stream for this unfortunately.

HK off to a decent start. Have stacked their team with batsman - only three proper bowlers picked, and two of those are middle order batsmen at club level.

I bowled to Haroon Arshad in a league game last season, prior to his selection into the HK A squad. He now makes his debut for HK. From facing me to facing Rashid Khan and Dawlat Zadran - that's going to be quite some step up for him.
 
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Afghanistan too good. HK 142 a/o

Haroon Arshad with a duck on debut at number 10. Saturday League Div 2 cricket is just not the right kind of preparation for Dawlat Zadran.

Hope this game last till Sunday.
 
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Afghanistan too good. HK 142 a/o

Haroon Arshad with a duck on debut at number 10. Saturday League Div 2 cricket is just not the right kind of preparation for Dawlat Zadran.

Hope this game last till Sunday.
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This First Class match was over in 2 days. A gulf in quality has appeared between these two sides in the space of 2 years.

ICC Intercontinental Cup at Mong Kok, Oct 20-21 2017 | Match Report | ESPNCricinfo

Two years ago HK could beat Afghanistan.

1st Qualifying Play-off, ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier at Dublin, Jul 21 2015 | Match Report | ESPNCricinfo

HK has lost 65% of that successful team in 27 months , the players who earned ODI and T20I status for HK and generous but short term cyclical funding for Cricket HK from ICC.
 
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I bowled to Haroon Arshad in a league game last season, prior to his selection into the HK A squad. He now makes his debut for HK. From facing me to facing Rashid Khan and Dawlat Zadran - that's going to be quite some step up for him.
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He got a pair :laugh:
 
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Slippaah said:
This First Class match was over in 2 days. A gulf in quality has appeared between these two sides in the space of 2 years.

ICC Intercontinental Cup at Mong Kok, Oct 20-21 2017 | Match Report | ESPNCricinfo

Two years ago HK could beat Afghanistan.

1st Qualifying Play-off, ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier at Dublin, Jul 21 2015 | Match Report | ESPNCricinfo

HK has lost 65% of that successful team in 27 months , the players who earned ODI and T20I status for HK and generous but short term cyclical funding for Cricket HK from ICC.
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T20s though. Even Singapore has beaten Afghanistan in a T20.
 
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Nine expensive wicketless overs too.
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Speaking to some U23 HK players who have been training with Haroon, his bowling is apparently his stronger suit now. Either way, pretty rough debut for him. He absolutely middled the ball that he was given LBW to in the second innings as well. We could hear the sound of the bat from the boundary. The square leg umpire even indicated to the bowler's end umpire after the decision was given that there was bat on it. Poor kid got robbed.

Take away from watching Afghanistan bowl in that second innings live - Rashid Khan is ****ing rapid and his googly dips quite a bit, but you can read it from his hand at the boundary so not sure why it's so hard to pick as a batsman (probably something to do with the angle), Zakir Khan -the left arm Chinaman bowler- is ****ing rapid. He's essentially bowling medium paced cutters with his left hand, with the odd slower on to catch batsmen off guard. Definitely a bowler to watch out for. They're a well drilled fielding unit too, and from all accounts by the umpires they are extremely polite.

Most of them are also Pakistani and not Afghani - they were speaking Urdu to the fans at the boundary. Couple of the HK Pakistani players knew these guys from back when they were kids in Pakistan as well.
 
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Also Anshuman Rath is pure quality. Such a great temperament. Blocked the good balls, milked the poor ones. When the 9th wicket fell,he danced down the wicket and launched Rashid Khan for a nonchalant six over the longest boundary at the ground. Terrific 50. No doubt he'd have gone on to 100 if he just had someone who could occupy the crease at the other end.
 
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Yeah I saw him bat once before too (against Scotland IIRC?) and came to the same conclusion. He's still so young too. Huge talent.
 
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