The inaugural ACC Women's Twenty20 continued today and we saw a big win for Hong Kong over China and a remarkable bowling performance by Nepal's Rubina Chhetri.

In the first match of the day at the Selangor Turf Club, Nepal batted first against Singapore. Some tight bowling from Singapore restricted Nepal to a poor total of 79/9 from their 20 overs. The target of 80 should have been an easy one, and sure enough, Singapore went into the last over with five wickets still in hand and just two runs to get.

But then Rubina Chhetri bowled what has to be one of the best overs so far in the brief history of Twenty20 cricket. After the first ball was a dot, she then did the hat-trick. She then bowled a wide to bring the scores level, but bounced back with two more wickets to finish with five wickets from six deliveries.

The match was therefore a tie, but ties don't happen in Twenty20 cricket, so we had a bowl out, rather than the currently in vogue super over. Nepal won the bowl out 2-1 and Chhetri was unsurprisingly the player of the match.

In the first match at the Kinrara Oval, hosts Malaysia batted first against the UAE and scored 115/5 from their 20 overs. They then restricted the UAE to 88/9 to win by 27 runs.

In the day's first match at the Bayuemas Oval, Thailand were put into bat by Qatar and scored 112/6 from their 20 overs. The Thais then bowled well with Nantanit Khonchan and Siwaporn Kosathong both taking three wickets as they bowled Qatar out for 62 to win by 50 runs.

That match was followed by Kuwait against Oman. Kuwait batted first after winning the toss and crawled to 93/6 from their 20 overs, largely helped by the 34 runs in wides sent down by Oman. Kuwait then bowled well, with Priyadi Murali taking 4/16 from her four overs, but they couldn't remove Kruti Toprani who scored an unbeaten 32 to lead her team to a three wicket win with three deliveries to spare.

In the second match at the Selangor Turf Club, Iran batted first against Bhutan and scored 140/6 from their 20 overs, helped by 40 extras, which included six penalty runs due to Bhutan's slow over rate, one of three such penalties today. They didn't bowl too well, giving away 57 in extras to Bhutan, with another one of the day's six run slow over rate penalties in that tally, but still restricted them to 121/4 to win by 19 runs.

The second match at the Kinrara Oval was the match many had their eyes on, for more than just cricketing reasons. Hong Kong won the toss and put China into bat. They bowled well to restrict China to 74/9 from their 20 overs, Chan Sau Har the pick of the bowlers, taking two wickets for nine runs from her four overs. The Hong Kong opening pair of Keenu Gill and Neisha Pratt then took the Chinese bowling attack apart, knocking off the required total in 10.4 overs to win by ten wickets. Gill was the top scorer with 42.