2008 Asia Cup

2008 Star Cricket Asia Cup

Dates	24 June – 6 July
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	13
Player of the series	Ajantha Mendis
Most runs	Sanath Jayasuriya (378)
Most wickets	Ajantha Mendis (17)
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The 2008 Asia Cup (also called Star Cricket Asia Cup) was a One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament, held in Pakistan from 24 June to 6 July 2008, at two venues. ^[1] 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 tournament after beating India by 100 runs in the final. ^[4]

Due to the 2008 Mumbai attacks and security reasons, this is the last time India has played a tournament in Pakistan. ^[5]

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. ^[6]

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.

Karachi	Lahore
National Stadium	Gaddafi Stadium
Capacity: 34,000	Capacity: 27,000
Matches: 10	Matches: 3
National Stadium, Karachi Gaddafi Stadium

Squads

Bangladesh [7]	Hong Kong [8]	India [9] [10]	Pakistan [11]	Sri Lanka [12]	United Arab Emirates [13]
Mohammad Ashraful (c) Alok Kapali Mashrafe Mortaza Abdur Razzak Dolar Mahmud Farhad Reza Mahmudullah Mehrab Hossain Jnr Mosharraf Hossain Mushfiqur Rahim (wk) Nazimuddin Raqibul Hasan Shahadat Hossain Shahriar Nafees Tamim Iqbal	Tabarak Dar (c) Afzaal Haider Ashish Gadhia Jamie Atkinson (wk) 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 & wk) Yuvraj Singh (vc) Robin Uthappa Gautam Gambhir Virender Sehwag Rohit Sharma Suresh Raina Yusuf Pathan Irfan Pathan Ishant Sharma Praveen Kumar R. P. Singh Piyush Chawla Pragyan Ojha Manpreet Gony S. Sreesanth	Shoaib Malik (c) Misbah ul Haq (vc) Abdur Rauf Fawad Alam Iftikhar Anjum Mansoor Amjad Mohammad Yousuf Nasir Jamshed Saeed Ajmal Salman Butt Sarfraz Ahmed (wk) 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 (wk) Chamara Silva Thilan Thushara Mahela Udawatte Chaminda Vaas Kaushalya Weeraratne Farveez Maharoof	Saqib Ali (c) Alawi Shukri Aman Ali Amjad Ali (wk) 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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Sri Lanka	2	2	0	0	0	4	2.730
2	Bangladesh	2	1	1	0	0	2	−0.350
3	United Arab Emirates	2	0	2	0	0	0	−2.380

Source: ESPNCricinfo

All times are in UTC+5 (PST)

24 June 2008 16:00 (D/N) 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)

Bangladesh won by 96 runs Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Mohammad Ashraful (Ban)

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25 June 2008 16:00 (D/N) 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)

Sri Lanka won by 131 runs Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Kumar Sangakkara (SL)

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26 June 2008 16:00 (D/N) 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)

Sri Lanka won by 142 runs Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Ajantha Mendis (SL)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	India	2	2	0	0	0	4	3.154
2	Pakistan	2	1	1	0	0	2	1.161
3	Hong Kong	2	0	2	0	0	0	−4.110

Source: ESPNCricinfo

All times are in UTC+5 (PST)

24 June 2008 16:00 (D/N) 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 (54) Iftikhar Anjum 2/18 (6 overs)

Pakistan won by 155 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Tony Hill (NZ) and Brian Jerling (SA) Player of the match: Sohail Tanvir (Pak)

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25 June 2008 16:00 (D/N) scorecard

India   374/4 (50 overs)	v	Hong Kong 118 (36.5 overs)
MS Dhoni 109 (96) Najeeb Amar 2/40 (10 overs)		Irfan Ahmed 25 (43) Piyush Chawla 4/23 (10 overs)

India won by 256 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Tony Hill (NZ) and Brian Jerling (SA) Player of the match: Suresh Raina (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• This was India's first cricket match to be played against Hong Kong.
• Suresh Raina (Ind) scored his first century in ODIs. ^[14]

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26 June 2008 16:00 (D/N) 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)

India won by 6 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Tony Hill (NZ) and Brian Jerling (SA) Player of the match: Suresh Raina (Ind)

Super Fours

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	PCO	Pts	NRR
1	Sri Lanka	3	2	1	0	0	2	6	1.363
2	India	3	2	1	0	0	2	6	0.250
3	Pakistan	3	2	1	0	0	0	4	0.924
4	Bangladesh	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	−2.665

Source: ESPNCricinfo

All times are in UTC+5 (PST)

28 June 2008 16:00 (D/N) 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 116* (107) Shahadat Hossain 2/60 (9 overs)

India won by 7 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Brian Jerling (SA) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Suresh Raina (Ind)

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29 June 2008 16:00 (D/N) 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)

Sri Lanka won by 64 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Tony Hill (NZ) Player of the match: Kumar Sangakkara (SL)

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30 June 2008 16:00 (D/N) 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)

Sri Lanka won by 158 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Brian Jerling (SA) & Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Sanath Jayasuriya (SL)

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2 July 2008 16:00 (D/N) scorecard

India   308/7 (50 overs)	v	Pakistan 309/2 (45.3 overs)
MS Dhoni 76 (96) Iftikhar Anjum 3/51 (10 overs)		Younis Khan 123* (117) Piyush Chawla 1/53 (8 overs)

Pakistan won by 8 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Tony Hill (NZ) Player of the match: Younis Khan (Pak)

• Saeed Ajmal (Pak) made his ODI debut.
• Misbah-ul-Haq (Pak) stood as captain for the first time in ODIs.

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3 July 2008 16:00 (D/N) 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)

India won by 6 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Brian Jerling (SA) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: MS Dhoni (Ind)

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4 July 2008 16:00 (D/N) 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* (52)

Pakistan won by 10 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Tony Hill (NZ) Player of the match: Abdur Rauf (Pak)

Final

6 July 2008 16:00 (D/N) 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)

Sri Lanka won by 100 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Tony Hill (NZ) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Player of the match: Ajantha Mendis (SL)

• India won the toss and elected to field.

Statistics

Most runs

Player	Innings	NO	Runs	Average	SR	HS	100	50	4s	6s
Sanath Jayasuriya	5	0	378	75.60	126.00	130	2	1	44	16
Suresh Raina	6	1	372	74.40	110.38	116*	2	2	34	11
Virender Sehwag	5	0	348	69.60	143.80	119	1	2	49	10
Kumar Sangakkara	6	0	345	57.50	99.13	121	3	0	44	2
Mahendra Dhoni	5	2	327	109.00	91.34	109*	1	2	19	8
Updated: 7 October 2022 [15]

Most wickets

Player	Innings	Wickets	Runs	Overs	BBI	Econ.	Ave.	5WI
Ajantha Mendis	5	17	145	42.0	6/13	3.45	8.52	2
Muthiah Muralidaran	5	11	184	48.0	5/31	3.83	16.72	1
Sohail Tanvir	5	10	241	42.0	5/48	5.73	24.10	1
Iftikhar Anjum	5	9	210	43.4	3/51	4.80	23.33	0
Rudra Singh	5	7	239	43.0	3/67	5.55	34.14	0
Abdur Razzak	5	7	247	46.2	3/20	5.33	35.28	0
Updated: 7 October 2022 [16]

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External links

• "Asia Cup tournament review". ESPNcricinfo.
• "Asia Cup 2008". ESPNcricinfo.