Pakistan beat India by four wickets in the Hong Kong Sixes at Mission Road Ground in Mong Kok on Friday, 30 October 2026. India made 88 for 5 in their six overs, and Pakistan reached 91 for 2 in 3.5 overs, with 13 balls left. The win kept Pakistan’s hopes of reaching the next round alive in Group C, after they had lost their opening match to the United Arab Emirates earlier in the day.
The Hong Kong Sixes is a six-a-side tournament, with each innings limited to six overs and each side allowed six players. That format rewards fast scoring and punishes a slow start, and Pakistan took control of this match in the first over of their chase. Captain Abbas Afridi hit five consecutive sixes off Krunal Pandya, and the over cost 31 runs. The second over added 28 more, and India had no way back from there.
Shashank Singh had given India something to defend. He scored 40 off 11 balls, with five sixes and two fours, and he was the only India batter to pass 20 in the published score summary. T. Natarajan added 12. Abdul Samad took 1 for 10 in two overs for Pakistan, and the rest of the attack kept India to 88 for 5. In a six-over match, that total still asked Pakistan to score at almost 15 runs an over, but the chase never looked in doubt after the opening over.
How the Hong Kong Sixes chase unfolded
The Hong Kong Sixes chase began with Afridi and Khawaja Nafay at the crease. Nafay finished unbeaten on 41 off 12 balls, while Afridi scored 35 off 8 balls. Shashank Singh took 1 for 14 in one over for India, but by then Pakistan were well ahead of the rate they needed.
Irfan Khan finished the match by hitting his first ball for six. That shot took Pakistan to 91 for 2 and sealed a win by four wickets. In this format, a side has six wickets in total, so losing two wickets still leaves four in hand, which is how the winning margin is counted. Afridi was named player of the match for his 35 off 8 balls and his role in the opening over.
Pakistan had won the toss in the Hong Kong Sixes match and chosen to field first. India scored 11 runs in the opening over of their innings, according to match reports, but they could not keep that pace going for six overs against a Pakistan attack that varied its lengths.
Hong Kong Sixes Group C and the UAE match
The Hong Kong Sixes Group C picture made this match matter for more than the result alone. Pakistan had lost their first match of the day to the UAE by one wicket, after posting 106 for 3 in six overs. Afridi had scored 53 off 13 balls in that match, with eight sixes and one four, but UAE captain Khalid Shah answered with 71 off 20 balls, with nine sixes and three fours, to chase down 107 in the final over.
India were due to play the UAE in their final Group C match on Saturday. Reports before that match said that if India beat the UAE, all three teams in the group would be level on points, and the side with the most sixes would go through to the Cup section. The sixes tally at that stage was listed as Pakistan 23 from two matches, UAE 12 from one match, and India 7 from one match. That meant India needed a big win, with plenty of sixes, to stay in the Cup race.
What the Hong Kong Sixes result means
For Pakistan, the win was their first of the 2026 edition and it came against the side many of their supporters most wanted to beat. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif posted congratulations to the team after the match, calling it a superb four-wicket victory.
For India in the Hong Kong Sixes, led by Krunal Pandya, the defeat left their tournament hopes resting on the UAE match. Shashank Singh’s 40 off 11 balls was the clear positive from their innings, and it showed that India had the hitting to compete in this format. The problem was that the rest of the batting did not add enough runs around him, and the bowling then gave away 31 runs in the first over of the chase.
India’s final Hong Kong Sixes Group C match was against the UAE on Saturday, with the Cup place decided on points and then on sixes hit.