In the tightest match of the second day of WCL Division 3 hosts Hong Kong lost out for the second time in a row, this time to a rejuvenated Oman side.

In the bright sunshine of Kowloon Cricket Club, Najeeb Amar's side put on a respectable total of 266 after some strong batting from Hussain Butt who struck 81 of the side's runs.

However, once again the home side failed to make any major batting partnerships in its innings and the middle-order not performing to a high enough standard when facing a strong Omani bowling attack.

The stand-out bowler for the Omanis was veteran spinner Khalid Rashid who managed to claim the scalps of Courtney Kruger and Butt to help his team on its way to cleaning up the Hong Kong side.

Oman's batsmen didn't waste any time when it came to scoring runs after lunch with opener Hemin Desai smashing his way to 62 in just 30 balls. The 33-year-old right-handed batsman smashed nine boundaries and three sixes before having his stumps removed by Nadeem Ahmed.

Vaibhav Wategaonkar added an important 68 but the star of the Oman innings was easily the side's wicketkeeper-batsman Sultan Ahmed whose unbeaten 70 guided the team to victory.

Five of Oman's batsmen failed to make higher than six runs after some tight and positive bowling by Hong Kong's Irfan Ahmed and Aizaz Khan but the side missed opportunities in the final overs to dismiss Sultan. The 33-year-old combined with Amir Ali to hit the winning runs and award the Sultanate of Oman its first win of the tournament.

'It's obviously disappointing not to win for a second time but the side hasn't lost its confidence. We know we've got the ability and today's game, like yesterday's, came down to the last over,' said Hong Kong coach Charlie Burke.

'Our biggest problem is we've not had a big enough batting partnership in our innings and then we've gone on to bowl five or six poor overs which has allowed the opposition to get on top of us. We won't let today's result hold us back and along with the other results from today's games the tournament is still wide open,' he added.

Man of the match Sultan said, 'We have a great depth in our middle-order and today it paid off with everyone contributing throughout the 50 overs to get us over the line. We knew today's match was important for both ourselves and Hong Kong and we wanted to give it our all, we made sure we were motivated for today's match and it really paid off.

'We always focus on the coming match and not the next four matches and I think that has helped our focus today and hopefully it will help us after the rest day when we face Italy on Tuesday.'