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5th match, Mirpur

Afghanistan v Hong Kong

At Mirpur, February 22, 2016. Afghanistan won by 66 runs. Afghanistan 178-7 (20 overs) (Asghar Stanikzai 49, Najibullah Zadran 60*; Aizaz Khan 3-38); ‡Hong Kong 112 (17.1 overs) (A. Rath 41; Mohammad Nabi 4-17). MoM: Mohammad Nabi. T20I debuts: Adil Mehmood, Tanveer Ahmed (Hong Kong). A crushing win kept Afghanistan's hopes alive: Najibullah Zadran's career-best 60* from 35 balls propelled them to 178, with 23 flowing from the 19th over. At 79-1 in the tenth, Hong Kong were still in it. Then came the collapse: the top three aside, no one passed four, as nine wickets fell for 33.

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