1988 Asia Cup

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1988 Asia Cup
Dates27 October – 4 November 1988
Administrator(s) Asian Cricket Council
Cricket format One Day International
Tournament format(s) Round-robin
Host(s)Bangladesh
ChampionsFlag of India.svg  India (2nd title)
Runners-upFlag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka
Participants4
Matches7
Player of the series Flag of India.svg Navjot Sidhu
Most runs Flag of Pakistan.svg Ijaz Ahmed (192)
Most wickets Flag of India.svg Arshad Ayub (9)
1986

The 1988 Asia Cup (also known as the Wills Asia Cup) was the third Asia Cup tournament, held in Bangladesh between 26 October and 4 November 1988. Four teams took part in the tournament: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the host nation Bangladesh. The matches were the first-ever List A-classified being played in Bangladesh, then an Associate Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC), their opponents all being Full Members.

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The 1988 Asia Cup was a round-robin tournament where each team played the other three once, and the top two teams qualifying for a place in the final. India and Sri Lanka qualified for the final in which India defeated Sri Lanka by 6 wickets to win its second Asia Cup.

Squads

Squads [1]
Flag of India.svg  India Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh
Dilip Vengsarkar (c) Arjuna Ranatunga (c) Javed Miandad (c) Gazi Ashraf (c)
Krishnamachari Srikkanth Roshan Mahanama Ramiz Raja Azhar Hossain
Navjot Singh Sidhu Brendon Kuruppu (wk) Aamer Malik Harunur Rashid
Mohinder Amarnath Athula Samarasekera Shoaib Mohammad Athar Ali Khan
Mohammad Azharuddin Aravinda de Silva Saleem Malik Minhajul Abedin
Kapil Dev Ranjan Madugalle Ijaz Ahmed Aminul Islam
Kiran More (wk) Duleep Mendis Saleem Yousuf (wk) Zahid Razzak
Sanjeev Sharma Ravi Ratnayeke Manzoor Elahi Golam Faruq
Arshad Ayub Graeme Labrooy Wasim Akram Jahangir Shah
Maninder Singh Kapila Wijegunawardene Abdul Qadir Nasir Ahmed (wk)
Narendra Hirwani Don Anurasiri Tauseef Ahmed Gholam Nousher
Ajay Sharma Hashan Tillakaratne Moin-ul-Atiq Faruk Ahmed
Chandrakant Pandit Ranjith Madurasinghe Iqbal Qasim Akram Khan
- Champaka Ramanayake Naved Anjum Wahidul Gani
- Uvais Karnain Haafiz Shahid -

Venues

Dhaka Chattogram
Bangabandhu National Stadium MA Aziz Stadium
Capacity: 36,000Capacity: 20,000
Matches: 5Matches: 2
Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh.jpg
M. A. Aziz Stadium 02.jpg

Matches

Group stage

TeamsPldWLTNRPts RR
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka 33000125.110
Flag of India.svg  India 3210084.491
Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 3120044.721
Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh 3030002.430
27 October 1988
Scorecard
Pakistan  Flag of Pakistan.svg
194/7 (44 overs)
v
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka
195/5 (38.5 overs)
Ijaz Ahmed 54 (58)
Graeme Labrooy 3/36 (8 overs)
Roshan Mahanama 55 (92)
Wasim Akram 2/34 (7.5 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets
Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
Umpires: Ram Gupta (Ind) and V K Ramaswamy (Ind)
Player of the match: Roshan Mahanama (SL)

27 October 1988
Scorecard
Bangladesh  Flag of Bangladesh.svg
99/8 (45 overs)
v
Flag of India.svg  India
100/1 (26 overs)
Minhajul Abedin 22 (67)
Arshad Ayub 3/20 (9 overs)
Navjot Sidhu 50* (71)
Azhar Hossain 1/30 (7 overs)
India won by 9 wickets
M. A. Aziz Stadium, Chittagong
Umpires: KT Francis (SL) and Tariq Ata (Pak)
Player of the match: Navjot Sidhu (Ind)

29 October 1988
Scorecard
Pakistan  Flag of Pakistan.svg
284/3 (45 overs)
v
Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh
111/6 (45 overs)
Ijaz Ahmed 124* (87)
Azhar Hossain 1/24 (4 overs)
Athar Ali Khan 22 (52)
Iqbal Qasim 3/13 (9 overs)
Pakistan won by 173 runs
M. A. Aziz Stadium, Chittagong
Umpires: Ram Gupta (Ind) and Selliah Ponnadurai (SL)
Player of the match: Moin-ul-Atiq (Pak)

29 October 1988
Scorecard
Sri Lanka  Flag of Sri Lanka.svg
271/6 (45 overs)
v
Flag of India.svg  India
254 (44 overs)
Aravinda de Silva 69 (63)
Kapil Dev 2/39 (9 overs)
Navjot Sidhu 50 (55)
Kapila Wijegunawardene 4/49 (9 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 17 runs
Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
Umpires: Saleem Badar (Pak) and Tariq Ata (Pak)
Player of the match: Aravinda de Silva (SL)

31 October 1988
Scorecard
Pakistan  Flag of Pakistan.svg
142 (42.2 overs)
v
Flag of India.svg  India
143/6 (40.4 overs)
Moin-ul-Atiq 38 (64)
Arshad Ayub 5/21 (9 overs)
Mohinder Amarnath 74* (122)
Abdul Qadir 3/27 (9 overs)
India won by 4 wickets
Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
Umpires: KT Francis (SL) and Selliah Ponnadurai (SL)
Player of the match: Arshad Ayub (Ind)

2 November 1988
Scorecard
Bangladesh  Flag of Bangladesh.svg
118/8 (45 overs)
v
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka
120/1 (30.5 overs)
Athar Ali Khan 30 (83)
Ravi Ratnayeke 4/23 (8 overs)
Brendon Kuruppu 58* (93)
Azhar Hossain 1/20 (6.5 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 9 wickets
Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
Umpires: V K Ramaswamy (Ind) and Saleem Badar (Pak)
Player of the match: Brendon Kuruppu (SL)

Final

4 November 1988
Scorecard
Sri Lanka  Flag of Sri Lanka.svg
176 (43.2 overs)
v
Flag of India.svg  India
180/4 (37.1 overs)
Duleep Mendis 36 (36)
Kris Srikkanth 3/12 (3.2 overs)
Navjot Sidhu 76 (87)
Kapila Wijegunawardene 2/33 (9 overs)
India won by 6 wickets
Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
Umpires: Saleem Badar (Pak) and Tariq Ata (Pak)
Player of the match: Navjot Sidhu (Ind)

Statistics

Most runs

PlayerMatchesInningsNORuns Average SRHS100500
Flag of Pakistan.svg Ijaz Ahmed 33119296.00103.78124* 110
Flag of India.svg Navjot Sidhu 44117959.6677.8276030
Flag of Pakistan.svg Moin-ul-Atiq 22014371.5079.00105100
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Athula Samarasekera 44114046.6675.6766010
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Aravinda de Silva 43013545.00107.1469010
Source: Cricinfo [2]

Most wickets

PlayerMatchesInningsWicketsOversAve.Econ.BBI4WI5WI
Flag of India.svg Arshad Ayub 44936.0013.333.335/2101
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Kapila Wijegunawardene 44832.0016.504.124/4910
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Ravi Ratnayeke 44734.0018.853.884/2310
Flag of India.svg Kapil Dev 44628.216.503.492/1600
Flag of Pakistan.svg Abdul Qadir 3326.0017.003.923/2700
Source: Cricinfo [3]

See also

References

  1. Cricinfo Asia Cup page Cricinfo. Retrieved on 17 September 2021
  2. "Wills Asia Cup, 1988/89 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  3. "Wills Asia Cup, 1988/89 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 18 September 2022.