Dates | 11 March – 22 March [1] |
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Administrator(s) | Asian Cricket Council |
Cricket format | One Day International |
Tournament format(s) | Round-robin, Knockout |
Host(s) | Bangladesh |
Champions | Pakistan (2nd title) |
Runners-up | Bangladesh |
Participants | 4 |
Matches | 7 |
Player of the series | Shakib Al Hasan [2] [3] |
Most runs | Virat Kohli (357) [4] |
Most wickets | Umar Gul (9) [5] |
The 2012 Asia Cup (also called Micromax Asia Cup) was an international cricket tournament held in Bangladesh from 11 to 22 March 2012. Like the previous event, the tournament featured the four Test-playing nations from Asia: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. India entered the tournament as the defending 2010 Asia Cup Pakistan won the tournament by beating Bangladesh in the final by 2 runs. [6] [7] [8] [9]
China was interested to host the Asia Cup at Guangzhou [10] but it was decided by the Asian Cricket Council that Bangladesh will host the event. It was the third time Bangladesh hosted the event after 1988 and 2000.
The event was supposed to be held between 1 and 11 March 2012, but was rescheduled to avoid conflicting with the ODI tri-series in Australia that also included Sri Lanka and India, which ended on 8 March. The tournament was played from 11 to 22 March. [11]
All the 7 matches were played at Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur. [12]
City | Venue | Capacity | Matches |
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Mirpur, Dhaka | Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium | 26,000 | 7 |
Umpires from neutral countries:
Umpires from participating countries:
Match Referee:
Notes
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | BP | Pts | NRR | For | Against |
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1 | Pakistan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0.444 | 780/139.5 | 759/147.5 |
2 | Bangladesh | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.022 | 746/136.3 | 762/140 |
3 | India | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.377 | 923/147.5 | 876/149.2 |
4 | Sri Lanka | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −0.887 | 653/140 | 705/127 |
Points system: [18]
If two or more teams have the same number of points, the right to play in the final is determined as follows:
All times local (UTC+06:00)
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Player | Team | Matches | Runs | Average | SR | HS | 100s | 50s |
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Virat Kohli | India | 3 | 357 | 119 | 102 | 183 | 2 | 1 |
Tamim Iqbal | Bangladesh | 4 | 253 | 63.25 | 80.831 | 70 | 0 | 4 |
Mohammad Hafeez | Pakistan | 4 | 245 | 61.25 | 67.867 | 105 | 1 | 1 |
Shakib Al Hasan | Bangladesh | 4 | 237 | 59.25 | 110.233 | 68 | 0 | 3 |
Nasir Jamshed | Pakistan | 4 | 193 | 48.25 | 96.02 | 112 | 1 | 1 |
Source:ESPNCricinfo [4] |
Player | Team | Matches | Wickets | Runs | Average | SR | BBI | ECon. | 4W |
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Umar Gul | Pakistan | 4 | 9 | 208 | 23.111 | 24 | 3/58 | 5.778 | 0 |
Saeed Ajmal | Pakistan | 4 | 8 | 161 | 20.125 | 28.25 | 3/27 | 4.274 | 0 |
Aizaz Cheema | Pakistan | 4 | 8 | 196 | 24.5 | 24.75 | 4/43 | 5.939 | 1 |
Abdur Razzak | Bangladesh | 4 | 6 | 154 | 25.667 | 40 | 2/26 | 3.85 | 0 |
Mashrafe Mortaza | Bangladesh | 4 | 6 | 177 | 29.5 | 39.833 | 2/44 | 4.444 | 0 |
Source:ESPNCricinfo [5] |
Player | No. of Awards |
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Virat Kohli | 2 |
Shakib Al Hasan | |
Mohammad Hafeez | 1 |
Aizaz Cheema | |
Shahid Afridi | Man of the match in Final |
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