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Raina, Dhoni shine in India�s massive win over Hong Kong

India began their Asia Cup campaign in grand style defeating minnows Hong Kong by a huge margin of 256 runs at Karachi. Piling up a massive 374 for 4 after winning the toss, India dismissed Hong Kong for 118 in just 36.5 overs. Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Suresh Raina scored centuries in India’s run feast.

Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir gave India a flying start putting on 127 for the first wicket. Sehwag missed a possible century when he was caught mistiming a shot after scoring a hurricane 78. Gambhir followed soon for 51, and Rohit Sharma missed the party being run out for 11. After that, it was all Raina and Dhoni who put on 166 runs for the 4th wicket off only 123 balls to help India reach the highest ever total in Asia Cup history. It was Raina’s first ODI century who was finally dismissed after scoring a magnificent 101. Raina got his century in 66 balls, the second fastest by an Indian. Dhoni remained unbeaten on 109, his fourth three-figure innings in one-day internationals. While all the Hong Kong bowlers came in for heavy punishment, only Najeeb Amar stood out and finished with impressive figures of 10-0-40-2.

When they began their reply, the Hong Kong batsmen had no clues whatsoever to handle the guile of leg-spinner Piyush Chawla who claimed 4 for 23. Skipper Tabarak Dar, James Atkinson and Irfan Ahmed were the leading contributors, but none of them could proceed beyond the twenties. Sehwag also claimed two wickets conceding only 5 runs as the Hong Kong innings folded up for 118 with more than 13 overs to spare.

India now face a much tougher test when they meet arch-rivals Pakistan in the next match.

Brief scores: India 374 for 4 (Dhoni 109*, Raina 101, Sehwag 78, Gambhir 51); Hong Kong 118 (Chawla 4/23, Sehwag 2/5). India won by 256 runs.

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