2008 Asia Cup

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]

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 Venues in Pakistan

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)

Bangladesh by 96 runs Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan Umpires: Ian Gould (ENG) & Simon Taufel (AUS) Player of the match: Mohammad Ashraful

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)

Sri Lanka by 131 runs Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Pakistan Umpires: Ian Gould (ENG) & Simon Taufel (AUS) Player of the match: Kumar Sangakkara

26 June 2008 scorecard

Sri Lanka  290/9 (50 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 148/10 (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 by 142 runs Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Umpires: Ian Gould (ENG) & Simon Taufel (AUS) Player of the match: Ajantha Mendis

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)

Pakistan by 155 runs National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan Umpires: Tony Hill (NZ) & Brian Jerling (RSA) Player of the match: Sohail Tanvir

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)

India by 256 runs National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan Umpires: Tony Hill (NZ) & Brian Jerling (RSA) Player of the match: Suresh Raina

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)

India by 6 wickets National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan Umpires: Tony Hill (NZ) & Brian Jerling (RSA) Player of the match: Suresh Raina

Super Fours

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	NRR	BP	Points
Sri Lanka	3	2	1	0	0	+1.363	2	4
India	3	2	1	0	0	+0.250	2	4
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)

India by 7 wickets National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan Umpires: Simon Taufel (AUS) & Brian Jerling (RSA) Player of the match: Suresh Raina

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)

Sri Lanka by 64 runs National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan Umpires: Ian Gould (ENG) & Tony Hill (NZ) Player of the match: Kumar Sangakkara

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)

Sri Lanka by 158 runs National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan Umpires: Brian Jerling (RSA) & Simon Taufel (AUS) Player of the match: Sanath Jayasuriya

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)

Pakistan by 8 wickets National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan Umpires: Ian Gould (ENG) & Tony Hill (NZ) Player of the match: Younis Khan

• Saeed Ajmal made his ODI debut

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)

India by 6 wickets National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan Umpires: Simon Taufel (AUS) & Brian Jerling (RSA) Player of the match: Mahendra Singh Dhoni

4 July 2008 scorecard

Bangladesh  115 (38.2 overs)	v	Pakistan 116/0 (19.4 overs)
Tamim Iqbal 26(41) Abdur Rauf 3/24 (8overs)		Salman Butt 56*(62) Nasir Jamshed 52* (56)

Pakistan by 10 wickets National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan Umpires: Ian Gould (ENG) & Tony Hill (NZ) Player of the match: Abdur Rauf

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)

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

References

External links

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