Hong Kong captain Tanwir Afzal won the toss and opted to bowl on a dry, cracked Nagpur surface in the World Twenty20 opener International Cricket Council
Afzal gave his team a strong start by picking wickets in consecutive overs, after Hamilton Masakadza was run-out for quick 20 in the third over AFP
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Vusi Sibanda, who opened with Hamilton, went on to bring up his first T20I half-century International Cricket Council
Sibanda got good support from Malcolm Waller as they took the score past 100 with a 61-run stand for the fifth wicket International Cricket Council
Hong Kong replied with a few late strikes before Elton Chigumbura's unbeaten 13-ball 30 lifted Zimbabwe to 158 for 8 AFP
Ryan Campbell poked and prodded his way to a 19-ball 9, but Jamie Atkinson led the chase with a maiden T20I fifty of his own AFP
Wellington Masakadza, though, trapped Babar Hayat lbw, and sent down a tidy spell as the asking rate soared AFP
Sikandar Raza pitched in with the wicket of Mark Chapman to dent Hong Kong further International Cricket Council
Afzal struck an unbeaten 31 off 17 balls, but the Zimbabwe seamers held their own at the death. Hong Kong eventually came up short by 14 runs Graham Crouch / IDI/Getty
