How will you win so many catch, Hong Kong, after inflating SL, joined India’s shameful club

New Delhi. Sri Lanka may have won by four wickets in the Asia Cup match at the end, but the thrill would have increased even more if Hong Kong would have redeemed their bad fielding opportunities. In fact, in the entire match, Hong Kong players dripped a total of six catches and this proved to be the biggest reason for their defeat. If these catchs were absorbed in the hands, perhaps the result would have been completely different. He could have troubled the wishes of Sri Lanka in the Super-4.

India also included in this embarrassing list
The record of leaving the most catches in an innings in men’s T20 international cricket is now the name of four teams. In 2009, India left six catches in the Sri Lanka match in Mohali. After this, South Africa lost the same opportunities against Sri Lanka in Cape Town in 2017. In 2024, six catches were also dropped on Gros Ilette in Australia vs Scotland match. Now in the Asia Cup 2025, Hong Kong repeated this shameful record against Sri Lanka in Dubai. That is, Hong Kong has also joined the list of leaving six catches in an innings.

Sri Lanka gets frequent opportunities

At the beginning of the match, Pathm Nisanka stayed with life several times. In the sixth over, Kischit Shah made a great effort on deep midwicket, but Niskanka’s top-edged catch slipped by hand. Then in the 10th over, Ehsan Khan left Niskanka’s catch on his own ball. In the 13th over, Shahid dripped an easy catch on the deep midwicket off Azaz Khan in the 13th over and the ball turned into a fours. Soon after, in the 14th over, Ehsan himself left another simple return catch.

Hong Kong had a chance
Not only this, Najrakat gave life to Kushal Perera in the 12th over. At the same time, Yasim Murtaza also missed the opportunity of diving catch on the cover. That is, both the prominent batsmen of Sri Lanka kept escaping again and again and Hong Kong kept on watering himself on his hard work. The thrill of the match reached the peak when Sri Lanka lost four wickets within 13 balls. Hong Kong had made a comeback completely and it seemed that now the pan would bow to his favor. But the same left catch came in handy here. If Niskanka and Perera were dismissed in time, Sri Lanka would not have scored even 140 runs.