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Karachi: The capitulation were taken out on a stretcher. was slow and sure. The chase Hong Kong finished with 133 in was never on as Hong Kong con- Pakistan in resounding 155-run win 37.2 overs. tinued to suffer the spectre of big defeats while Pakistan won by fered a 173-run defeat against Umar Gul crunched one into Ahmed, Hussain Butt, Courtney failed to last while a touch of Brief scores: 155 runs in the Cricket Asia Cup Pakistan. And Tuesday night was Tabarak’s helmet and as he Kruger and J.J. Atkinson proba- black humour lingered as Zain Pakistan: 288 for nine wickets (Y. Group ‘B’ match here at the no different. Chasing Pakistan’s slumped with pain, rubbed his bly heard ‘shiver-me-timbers’ as Abbas drilled one onto Younis Khan Nadeem 67, F. Alam (not out) National Stadium. 288, Hong Kong openers — skip- jaw and retired hurt, the slow Sohail Tanvir, Rao Iftikhar and Khan’s helmet at silly point. 63, S. Tanvir Zain 59) In the last edition at Colombo per Tabarak Dar and Shkawat descent to defeat had begun. Shahid Afridi skewered the Abbas suffered cramps, retired Hong Kong: 133 all out (Tanvir 2 in 2004, Hong Kong lost to Ali — hung in grimly. A Sohail Tanvir bouncer con- stumps. hurt and never returned while for 20, Iftikhar 2 for 18, Afridi 2 for Bangladesh by 116 runs and suf- However in the seventh over, sumed Shkawat before Irfan Tabarak came back to bat and Younis felt dizzy and the two 30)