Asia Cup 2025: Bangladesh National Cricket Team pacer Tanzim Hasan Sakib gave a fiery send-off to the Hong Kong National Cricket Team star batsman Babar Hayat on Thursday, September 11.
The third match of the Asia Cup 2025 between the Yasim Murtaza-led Hong Kong and Litton Das-led Bangladesh is currently underway at the Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi.
Asia Cup 2025: Babar Hayat hits Tanzim Hasan Sakib for a six, falls on the next delivery
The 33-year-old Babar Hayat is one of the best batters of Team Hong Kong. He has played over 90 matches in T20I cricket and scored over 2200 runs at a strike rate of around 131.
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In the Asia Cup 2025 match against Bangladesh, he came out to bat in the second over itself after Anshuman Rath got out to Taskin Ahmed.
Babar Hayat started off his innings quite well and looked in decent touch. Hong Kong needed Hayat to stay in the middle for a longer time and play a big knock, but he was unable to do that and got out in the fifth over.
On the third ball of the 5th over, Babar Hayat danced down the track and smashed the back-of-a-length ball over mid-on for a brilliant maximum. The pacer Tanzim Hasan Sakib was furious and disappointed with himself after getting hit for a six, and he bowled a stunning delivery on the next ball to take revenge.
On the fourth ball of the over, the young, aggressive fast bowler bowled a full and straight delivery to Hayat, who gave a charge down the track to play it on the leg side.
However, he completely missed the line due to the late swing, and the ball beat him comprehensively to crash into the stumps. Tanzim Hasan Sakib was absolutely pumped up after getting the wicket of Babar Hayat for 12-ball 14, and he celebrated on the batter’s face before giving him a fiery send-off.
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Watch: Explosive scenes in Asia Cup as Tanzim Hasan Sakib humiliates Babar Hayat with brutal send-off
Tanzim nets the big fish as Babar Hayat gets cleaned up 🎣
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Babar Hayat clears the rope, but Tanzim Hasan has the last laugh 😎
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Asia Cup 2025: Whatever happened is in the past, it’s a new day today – Yasim Murtaza
Bangladesh National Cricket Team won the toss and opted to bowl first in the match against the Hong Kong National Cricket Team. Speaking at the toss, Yasim Murtaza, Hong Kong Captain, said that they got what they wanted as they were anyway looking forward to batting first.
Yasim Murtaza added that they made a few mistakes in the last match against Afghanistan and would want to avoid those against the Bangla Tigers to improve their performance. He also said that he doesn’t believe in dwelling too much on past results and is focused on the present. He said:
“We would have batted first. We get what we want. There were a few mistakes with our batters, if we don’t repeat them we will get to a big total. We are playing the same team.
“Whatever happened is in the past, it’s a new day today and we are looking forward to it.”
Hong Kong Playing XI: Zeeshan Ali (wk), Anshuman Rath, Babar Hayat, Nizakat Khan, Kalhan Marc Challu, Kinchit Shah, Yasim Murtaza (c), Aizaz Khan, Ehsan Khan, Ayush Shukla, Ateeq Iqbal
Bangladesh Playing XI: Tanzid Hasan, Parvez Hossain Emon, Litton Das (c & wk), Towhid Hridoy, Shamim Hossain, Jaker Ali, Mahedi Hasan, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman
