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Asia Cup 2018: Rohit Sharma says, Hong Kong game a great learning for India's bowling attack

India beat Hong Kong by 26 runs in their opening game of Asia Cup 2018.

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Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma dives for the ball during the match against Hong Kong
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Rohit Sharma thinks that admitted that India’s 26-run win over Hong Kong was a lesson for his side specially the inexperienced bowling attack.

India survived a small scare in defence of 286 after Nizakat Khan and Anshuman Rath stitched together 174 runs for the opening wicket.

Rohit Sharma said, “It was a great learning for the bowling group. To handle the situations was important. It was better to have this in the first game of the tournament.”

Speaking at the post-match presentation ceremony, Sharma said, “Not a lot of things went to plan. But to win the game is very important. We always knew it was not going to be easy. We had a pretty inexperienced bowling line up but having said that there are no excuses. We made our mistakes where we could have attacked or we could have defended better.

“This tournament is all about learning. And these guys will learn. But in the end, these guys have done the job in the past. When the going gets tough, you need characters and a couple of the characters did well.”

“You have to give credit to Hong Kong. They played really well and showed good determination. Great partnership and great batting from those two openers,” said the Indian captain.

There was some good news for India with debutant Khaleel Ahmed impressing with figures of 3/48.

“Khaleel is a very exciting player to have in our squad. Today, he showed that despite not starting well he found a way to come back. And that is what as a captain I need. He stuck to his strength and got his rewards.

India take on Pakistan on Wednesday who had a day more to rest before the match.

“We know we are playing back-to-back matches and that is why we rested a few players considering the amount of cricket we have played. We are looking forward to the game tomorrow.”

Rohit, however, said that there were many positives from the match including Shikhar Dhawan who scored his 14th ODI century.

“Shikhar was a great positive. He had a long tour of England but he came back determined. It was not easy out there. Ambati got a brilliant fifty as well,” Rohit said.

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