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Hong Kong have won cricket’s East Asia Cup by beating Japan on home soil in Saturday’s final.
The hosts posted their highest-ever T20 international total, hammering 219 for 7, with skipper Nizakat Khan equalling his career-best score of 81 from 48 deliveries, smashing four sixes in his match-winning knock.
Nasrulla Rana put the finishing touches on the record-setting innings with four consecutive maximums off the last four balls, three of which sailed over the straight boundary.
Hong Kong went on to prevail by 35 runs after Japan reached…