1997 Asia Cup

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The 1997 Asia Cup (also known as the Pepsi Asia Cup 1997) was the sixth Asia Cup tournament, and the second to be held in Sri Lanka. The tournament took place between July 14–26, 1997. Four teams took part in the tournament: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

The 1997 Asia Cup was a round-robin tournament where each team played the other once, and the top two teams qualifying for a place in the final. India and Sri Lanka qualified for the final where Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets to win its second Asia Cup and ending India's three consecutive championship run.

Squads

Squads[1]
File:Flag of India.svg India File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh
Sachin Tendulkar (c) Arjuna Ranatunga (c) Ramiz Raja (c) Akram Khan (c)
Sourav Ganguly Sanath Jayasuriya Saeed Anwar Athar Ali Khan
Navjot Singh Sidhu Marvan Atapattu Aamer Sohail Naimur Rahman
Rahul Dravid Aravinda de Silva Inzamam-ul-Haq Habibul Bashar
Mohammad Azharuddin Roshan Mahanama Saleem Malik Aminul Islam
Robin Singh Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk) Moin Khan (wk) Enamul Haque
Ajay Jadeja Ruwan Kalpage Shahid Afridi Minhajul Abedin
Saba Karim (wk) Kumar Dharmasena Saqlain Mushtaq Khaled Mashud (wk)
Anil Kumble Chaminda Vaas Aaqib Javed Hasibul Hossain
Abey Kuruvilla Muttiah Muralitharan Arshad Khan Saiful Islam
Venkatesh Prasad Sajeewa de Silva Kabir Khan Sheikh Salahuddin
Noel David Lanka de Silva - Mafizur Rahman
Nilesh Kulkarni Upul Chandana - Zakir Hasan
- Dulip Liyanage - -

Matches

Group stage

Pld W L T NR Pts NRR
File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka 3 3 0 0 0 6 1.035
File:Flag of India.svg India 3 1 1 0 1 3 1.405
File:Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan 3 1 1 0 1 3 0.940
File:Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh 3 0 3 0 0 0 -2.895
14 July 1997
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Marvan Atapattu 80 (113)
Kabir Khan 2/49 (8 overs)
Saleem Malik 57 (79)
Sanath Jayasuriya 4/49 (10 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 15 runs
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Umpires: Shyam Bansal (Ind) and S Venkataraghavan (Ind)
Player of the match: Marvan Atapattu (SL)
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
16 July 1997
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Saeed Anwar 90 (94)
Saiful Islam 1/45 (7 overs)
Athar Ali Khan 82 (125)
Saqlain Mushtaq 5/38 (9.3 overs)
Pakistan won by 105 runs
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Umpires: Shyam Bansal (Ind) and B. C. Cooray (SL)
Player of the match: Saeed Anwar (Pak)
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Sheikh Salahuddin (Ban) made his ODI debut.
18 July 1997
Scorecard
India File:Flag of India.svg
227/6 (50 overs)
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Mohammad Azharuddin 81* (103)
Chaminda Vaas 2/35 (8 overs)
Arjuna Ranatunga 131* (152)
Robin Singh 2/29 (4 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 6 wickets
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Umpires: Mohammad Nazir (Pak) and Saleem Badar (Pak)
Player of the match: Arjuna Ranatunga (SL)
  • Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
20 July 1997
Scorecard
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Saleem Malik 10 (13)
Venkatesh Prasad 4/17 (5 overs)
No result
SSCG, Colombo
Umpires: B. C. Cooray (SL) and K. T. Francis (SL)
  • India won the toss and elected to field.
  • Rain and bad light after 5 overs stopped the game, and Umpires reduced the overs per side to 33.
    When the game resumed, it had to be called off again due to bad light.
21 July 1997
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Match abandoned without a ball bowled
SSCG, Colombo
Umpires: B. C. Cooray (SL) and K. T. Francis (SL)
22 July 1997
Scorecard
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Sanath Jayasuriya 108 (83)
Minhajul Abedin 2-43 (9 overs)
Naimur Rahman 47 (85)
Muralitharan 2-29 (10 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 103 runs
SSCG, Colombo
Umpires: Saleem Badar (Pak) and S Venkataraghavan (Ind)
Player of the match: Sanath Jayasuriya (SL)
  • Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field.
  • Mafizur Rahman (Ban) made his ODI debut.
24 July 1997
Scorecard
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File:Flag of India.svg India
132/1 (15 overs)
Athar Ali Khan 33 (69)
Robin Singh 3/13 (9 overs)
Sourav Ganguly 73 (52)
Enamul Haque 1/34 (3 overs)
India won by 9 wickets
SSCG, Colombo
Umpires: K. T. Francis (SL) and Mohammad Nazir (Pak)
Player of the match: Sourav Ganguly (Ind)
  • India won the toss and elected to field.
  • Zakir Hasan (Ban) made his ODI debut.

Final

26 July 1997
Scorecard
India File:Flag of India.svg
239/7 (50 overs)
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Mohammad Azharuddin 81 (102)
Chaminda Vaas 2/32 (8 overs)
MS Atapattu 84 (101)
Nilesh Kulkarni 1/48 (10 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Umpires: Mohammad Nazir (Pak) and Saleem Badar (Pak)
Player of the match: MS Atapattu (SL)
  • India won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Nilesh Kulkarni (Ind) made his ODI debut.

Statistics

Most runs

Player Matches Innings Runs Average SR HS 100 50 4s 6s
Template:Flagicon Arjuna Ranatunga 4 4 272 136.00 88.02 131* 1 2 29 3
Template:Flagicon Marvan Atapattu 4 4 255 85.00 73.91 84* 0 3 18 1
Template:Flagicon Sanath Jayasuriya 4 4 204 51.00 115.25 108 1 1 23 6
Template:Flagicon Mohammad Azharuddin 4 3 185 185.00 82.22 81* 0 2 8 4
Template:Flagicon Athar Ali Khan 3 3 157 52.33 62.30 82 0 1 17 2
Source: Cricinfo[2]

Most wickets

Player Matches Innings Wickets Overs Econ. Ave. BBI S/R 4WI 5WI
Template:Flagicon Venkatesh Prasad 4 4 7 24 6.07 17.00 4/17 20.5 1 0
Template:Flagicon Saqlain Mushtaq 3 2 6 19.3 6.53 12.66 5/38 19.5 0 1
Template:Flagicon Sanath Jayasuriya 4 3 6 30 6.27 24.50 4/49 30.0 1 0
Template:Flagicon Robin Singh 4 3 5 16 6.10 13.60 3/13 19.2 0 0
Template:Flagicon Chaminda Vaas 3 3 5 22 7.57 19.40 2/32 26.4 0 0
Source: Cricinfo[3]

See also

References

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  1. ↑ Cricinfo Asia Cup page Cricinfo. Retrieved on 17 September 2021
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