Tri-nation series in Bangladesh in 2008

A tri-series between three test nations Bangladesh, India and Pakistan was held in Bangladesh from 8 June 2008 to 14 June 2008.^[1] Pakistan won the final match by 25 runs against India.^[2]

Squads

ODI Squads
Bangladesh	India	Pakistan
Mohammad Ashraful(c)	Mahendra Singh Dhoni(c)(wk)	Shoaib Malik (c)
Mushfiqur Rahim(wk)	Virender Sehwag	Salman Butt
Mashrafe Mortaza	Gautam Gambhir	Nasir Jamshed
Abdur Razzak	Robin Uthappa	Younis Khan
Alok Kapali	Yuvraj Singh	Mohammad Yousuf
Dolar Mahmud	Rohit Sharma	Misbah-ul-Haq
Farhad Reza	Suresh Raina	Shahid Afridi
Mahmudullah	Yusuf Pathan	Kamran Akmal(wk)
Mehrab Hossain	Irfan Pathan	Sohail Khan
Nazimuddin	Praveen Kumar	Umar Gul
Raqibul Hasan	Piyush Chawla	Sohail Tanvir
Shahadat Hossain	Rudra Pratap Singh	Rao Iftikhar
Shahriar Nafees	Ishant Sharma	Wahab Riaz
Tamim Iqbal	Manpreet Gony	Fawad Alam
Dhiman Ghosh	Pragyan Ojha	Bazid Khan
Junaid Siddique		Naumanullah
Mosharraf Hossain
Rubel Hossain

Fixtures

Group stage

Points table

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	NRR	Points
India	2	2	0	0	0	+2.373	10
Pakistan	2	1	1	0	0	−0.778	5
Bangladesh	2	0	2	0	0	−1.789	0

Matches

8 June 2008 (scorecard)

Pakistan  233 (39.3 overs)	v	Bangladesh  163/8 (40 overs)
Salman Butt 70 (84) Abdur Razzak 3/35 (7.3 overs)		Mohammad Ashraful 56* (93) Shahid Afridi 3/19 (8 overs)

Pakistan won by 70 runs Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) & Enamul Haque (BAN) Player of the match: Salman Butt

• Rain shortened match to 40 overs a side.

10 June 2008 (scorecard)

India 330/8 (50 overs)	v	Pakistan 190 (35.4 overs)
Virender Sehwag 89 (76) Umar Gul 3/61 (10 overs)		Shoaib Malik 53 (67) Piyush Chawla 4/40 (8.4 overs)

India won by 140 runs Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) & Enamul Haque (BAN) Player of the match: Virender Sehwag

12 June 2008 (scorecard)

Bangladesh 222 (49.5 overs)	v	India 223/3 (35.1 overs)
Raqibul Hasan 89 (117) RP Singh 3/46 (10 overs)		Gautam Gambhir 107(101) Abdur Razzak 1/48 (10 overs)

India won by 7 wickets Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) & Nadir Shah (BAN) Player of the match: Gautam Gambhir

Final

14 June 2008 (scorecard)

Pakistan 315/3 (50 overs)	v	India 290 (48.2 overs)
Salman Butt 129 (136) (retired hurt) Irfan Pathan 2/59 (10 overs)		Mahendra Singh Dhoni 64 (59) Umar Gul 4/57 (9 overs)

Pakistan won by 25 runs Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SRI) & Nadir Shah (BAN) Player of the match: Younis Khan

• Man of series Salman Butt

References