After winning the toss and coming to bat first, Malaysia started in a destructive manner. Zubaidi Zulkifle and Syed Aziz together made a partnership of 81 runs in 7 overs for the first wicket. The first wicket fell in the form of Zubaidi. He was out after scoring 31 runs in 24 balls, while Mohammad Amir, who came to support Aziz, showed his hands openly. Aziz completed his century in no time and scored 126 runs in just 56 balls, hitting 13 fours and 9 sixes.
This is the biggest score from Malaysia. Earlier, in May this year, against Indonesia, Virender Singh had played an unbeaten inning of 116 runs with the help of 11 fours and 7 sixes in 62 balls. Now this has been recorded in the name of Aziz. When he was out on the third ball of the 16th over, the team’s score was 221 runs. Aamir 55 and Virendeep Singh played an unbeaten inning of 30 runs in 12 balls. The team scored 268 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs.
Thailand team, which came to chase the mountain-like score, did not have a good start. His first blow came on 8 runs and within no time 5 batsmen returned to the pavilion on 38 runs. Thailand, which scored 74 runs after losing 9 wickets in 20 overs, had to face defeat by 194 runs. Vijay Unni, Virendeep Singh and Ahmed Faiz took 2 wickets each for Malaysia.