Asia Cup 2022: Rating Teams based on performance in group stage

The preliminary stages of the Asia Cup 2022 came to an end on Friday (September 2). India and Afghanistan topped their respective groups winning both of their games whereas Pakistan and Sri Lanka grabbed a victory to progress to the Super Fours. Bangladesh and Hong Kong did not have much going for them in this tournament and hence, were knocked out.

Teams batting first seem to have struggled to set totals but India and Pakistan showed how it's done. Afghanistan were quite clinical in their performance whereas Sri Lanka did just enough to make it to the next round. Here we have rated teams based on their showing. Let us see how the teams fared in the group stages.

Rating teams based on performances in group stage in Asia Cup 2022

6. Hong Kong  - 4/10

Hong Kong came into the tournament riding high on confidence. They had an unbeaten run in the Asia Cup qualifiers and would have hoped to pose a tough challenge to the top-ranked teams. However, Nizakat Khan & Co. despite showing a lot of promise, were unmatched against the Asian Giants India and Pakistan.

The Hong Kong bowlers did well to contain the batting-heavyweights in the first half of the innings. The likes of Ehsan Khan and Yasim Murtaza were excellent in particular. However, their death bowling was below par and the bowlers leaked a lot of runs at the latter stages of the innings.

Talking about their batting, the batters did pretty well to reach a total of 152 against the Men in Blue. Babar Hayat was quite impressive as well. However, in their second game, they were completely decimated by the Pakistan bowling attack and were bundled out for a mere total of 38.