2008 Asia Cup
| Dates | 24 June–06 July[1] |
|---|---|
| Administrator(s) | Asian Cricket Council |
| Cricket format | One Day International |
| Tournament format(s) | Round-robin and Knockout |
| Host(s) |  Pakistan |
| Champions |  Sri Lanka (4th title) |
| Runners-up |  India |
| Participants | 6 |
| Matches played | 13 |
| Player of the series | Ajantha Mendis |
| Most runs | Sanath Jayasuriya (378) |
| Most wickets | Ajantha Mendis (17) |
The 2008 Asia Cup (also called STAR Cricket Asia Cup) took place in Pakistan in June 2008. The six teams which took part in the tournament were India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Asian associate nations UAE and Hong Kong. This was the first Asia Cup hosted by Pakistan; previously political tensions between India and Pakistan did not permit Pakistan to host the event in 1993. It was broadcast in India by Star Cricket and ESPN[2] and in Pakistan by Geo Super.[3] Sri Lanka won the final against India by 100 runs.[4]
Contents
1 Format
2 Venues
3 Squads
4 Group stage
4.1 Group A
4.2 Group B
5 Super Fours
6 Final
7 References
8 External links
Format
Originally, the ninth version of the Cup was supposed to take place in 2006, however packed international cricket schedules did not allow for the tournament to be held.[5]
Group A consisted of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates.
Group B consisted of India, Pakistan and Hong Kong.
The two groups first had a separate round-robin competition. The top two teams from each group advanced to the Super Fours. There was again a round-robin competition between the teams in the Super Four, the first two from which advanced to the final.
Venues
13 matches were played in 2008 Asia Cup at National Stadium, Karachi and Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore.
 Pakistan | |
|---|---|
Karachi | Lahore |
National Stadium | Gaddafi Stadium |
| Capacity: 45,000 | Capacity: 60,000 |
| Matches: 10 | Matches: 3 |
 |  |
Karachi | Lahore |
  National Stadium, Karachi Gaddafi Stadium |
Squads
 Bangladesh |  Hong Kong | India | Pakistan | Sri Lanka |  United Arab Emirates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mohammad Ashraful (C) Alok Kapali Mashrafe Mortaza Abdur Razzak Alok Kapali Dolar Mahmud Farhad Reza Mahmudullah Mehrab Hossain Jnr Mosharraf Hossain Mushfiqur Rahim Nazimuddin Raqibul Hasan Shahadat Hossain Shahriar Nafees Tamim Iqbal | Tabarak Dar (C) Afzaal Haider Ashish Gadhia Jamie Atkinson Toby Brown Hussain Butt Irfan Ahmed Courtney Kruger Roy Lamsam Munir Dar Nadeem Ahmed Najeeb Amar Skhawat Ali Waqas Barkat Zain Abbas | MS Dhoni (C) Yuvraj Singh Piyush Chawla Gautam Gambhir Manpreet Gony Praveen Kumar Pragyan Ojha Irfan Pathan Yusuf Pathan Suresh Raina Virender Sehwag Ishant Sharma Rohit Sharma RP Singh Robin Uthappa S Sreesanth | Shoaib Malik (C) Misbah ul Haq Abdur Rauf Fawad Alam Iftikhar Anjum Mansoor Amjad Mohammad Yousuf} Nasir Jamshed Saeed Ajmal Salman Butt Sarfraz Ahmed Shahid Afridi Sohail Tanvir Wahab Riaz Younis Khan Umar Gul | Mahela Jayawardene (C) Tillakaratne Dilshan Dilhara Fernando Sanath Jayasuriya Chamara Kapugedera Nuwan Kulasekara Ajantha Mendis Jehan Mubarak Muttiah Muralitharan Kumar Sangakkara Chamara Silva Thilan Thushara Mahela Udawatte Chaminda Vaas Kaushalya Weeraratne Farveez Maharoof | Saqib Ali (C) Alawi Shukri Aman Ali Amjad Ali Amjad Javed Arshad Ali Indika Batuwitarachchi Fahad Alhashmi Nizel Fernandes Khurram Khan Mohammad Tauqir Salman Farooq Vikrant Shetty Shadeep Silva Zahid Shah |
Group stage
Group A
| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | NRR | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sri Lanka | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2.310 | 4 |
| Bangladesh | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -0.350 | 2 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -2.380 | 0 |
24 June 2008 scorecard |
Bangladesh 300/8 (50 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 204 (45.4 overs) |
Mohammad Ashraful 109 (126) Zahid Shah 3/49 (10 overs) | Khurram Khan 78 (81) Abdur Razzak 3/20 (10 overs) |
25 June 2008 scorecard |
Sri Lanka 357/9 (50 overs) | v | Bangladesh 226/7 (50 overs) |
Kumar Sangakkara 101 (91) Abdur Razzak 3/55 (10 overs) | Mushfiqur Rahim 44 (53) Muttiah Muralitharan 2/37 (10 overs) |
26 June 2008 scorecard |
Sri Lanka 290/9 (50 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 148 (36.3 overs) |
Mahela Udawatte 67 (74) Zahid Shah 3/49 (10 overs) | Amjad Ali 77 (79) Ajantha Mendis 5/22 (6.3 overs) |
Group B
| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | NRR | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| India | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3.190 | 4 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +1.170 | 2 |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -4.110 | 0 |
24 June 2008 scorecard |
Pakistan 288/9 (50 overs) | v | Hong Kong 133 (37.2 overs) |
Younis Khan 67 (65) Nadeem Ahmed 4/51 (9 overs) | Zain Abbas 26(retired hurt) (54) Rao Iftikhar Anjum 2/18 (6 overs) |
25 June 2008 scorecard |
India 374/4 (50 overs) | v | Hong Kong 118 (36.5 overs) |
Mahendra Singh Dhoni 109 (96) Najeeb Amar 2/40 (10 overs) | Irfan Ahmed 25 (43) Piyush Chawla 4/23 (10 overs) |
- This was India's first cricket match to be played against Hong Kong.
26 June 2008 scorecard |
Pakistan 299/4 (50 overs) | v | India 301/4 (42.1 overs) |
Shoaib Malik 125 (119) R P Singh 1/44 (10 overs) | Virender Sehwag 119 (95) Iftikhar Anjum 2/61 (9.4 overs) |
Super Fours
| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | NRR | BP | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sri Lanka | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +1.363 | 2 | 6 |
| India | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +0.250 | 2 | 6 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +0.924 | 0 | 4 |
| Bangladesh | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | -2.665 | 0 | 0 |
28 June 2008 scorecard |
Bangladesh 283/6 (50 overs) | v | India 284/3 (43.2 overs) |
Alok Kapali 115 (96) Irfan Pathan 2/43 (10 overs) | Suresh Raina 115* (107) Shahadat Hussain 2/60 (9 overs) |
29 June 2008 scorecard |
Sri Lanka 302/7 (50 overs) | v | Pakistan 238/9 (50 overs) |
Kumar Sangakkara 112 (110) Sohail Tanvir 5/48 (10 overs) | Misbah-ul-Haq 76 (70) Ajantha Mendis 4/47 (10 overs) |
30 June 2008 scorecard |
Sri Lanka 332/8 (50 overs) | v | Bangladesh 174 (38.3 overs) |
Sanath Jayasuriya 130 (88) Alok Kapali 2/40 (6 overs) | Raqibul Hasan 52 (63) Muttiah Muralitharan 5/31 (10 overs) |
2 July 2008 scorecard |
India 308/7 (50 overs) | v | Pakistan 309/2 (45.3 overs) |
Mahendra Singh Dhoni 76 (96) Rao Iftikhar Anjum 3/51 (10 overs) | Younis Khan 123* (117) Piyush Chawla 1/53 (8 overs) |
- Saeed Ajmal made his ODI debut.
- Misbah-ul-Haq (Pak) stood as captain for the first time in ODIs.
3 July 2008 scorecard |
Sri Lanka 308/8 (50 overs) | v | India 310/4 (46.5 overs) |
Chamara Kapugedera 75 (78) Ishant Sharma 2/55 (10 overs) | Gautam Gambhir 68 (61) Muttiah Muralitharan 2/44 (10 overs) |
4 July 2008 scorecard |
Bangladesh 115 (38.2 overs) | v | Pakistan 116/0 (19.4 overs) |
Tamim Iqbal 26 (41) Abdur Rauf 3/24 (8 overs) | Salman Butt 56* (62) |
Final
6 July 2008 scorecard |
Sri Lanka 273 (49.5 overs) | v | India 173 (39.3 overs) |
Sanath Jayasuriya 125 (114) Ishant Sharma 3/52 (10 overs) | Virender Sehwag 60 (36) Ajantha Mendis 6/13 (8 overs) |
References
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^ "Pakistan to host Asia Cup in 2008". Daily Times. 22 May 2006. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
^ "Asia Cup super four leg from tomorrow". Geo TV. Geo Sports. 27 May 2006. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
^ Premachandran, Dileep (6 July 2008). "Mendis spins Sri Lanka to title triumph". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
^ Pakistan to host 2006 Asia Cup
External links
"Asia Cup tournament review". ESPNcricinfo.
"Asia Cup 2008". ESPNcricinfo.
