2008 Asia Cup

Cricket tournament in Pakistan 2008 Star Cricket Asia Cup Asia cup 2008 logo.svg Asian Cricket Council One Day International 24 June 6 July 2008 Round-robin and Knockout Pakistan SRI IND 4 6 13 SRI Ajantha Mendis SRI Sanath Jayasuriya (378) SRI Ajantha Mendis (17) 2004 2004 Asia Cup 2010 2010 Asia Cup 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.http://www.cricketwa.com/10840/series/asia-cup-2008-schedule-fixtures.aspx Asia Cup 2008 2015-12-22 cricketwa 2015-12-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20151223010713/http://www.cricketwa.com/10840/series/asia-cup-2008-schedule-fixtures.aspx dead 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 ESPNhttp://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C05%5C22%5Cstory_22-5-2006_pg2_6 Pakistan to host Asia Cup in 2008 Daily Times 22 May 2006 31 December 2012 and in Pakistan by Geo Super.http://www.geo.tv/6-27-2008/19923.htm Asia Cup super four leg from tomorrow 27 May 2006 Geo TV 31 December 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20150208103253/http://www.geo.tv/6-27-2008/19923.htm 8 February 2015 dead dmy-all Sri Lanka won the tournament after beating India by 100 runs in the final. http://www.espncricinfo.com/asiacup/content/story/360084.html Mendis spins Sri Lanka to title triumph 6 July 2008 Dileep Premachandran ESPNcricinfo 31 December 2012 Due to the 2008 Mumbai attacks and security reasons, this is the last time India has played a tournament in Pakistan.Champions Trophy 2025: India All Set to Play Matches at Familiar Venue, Report Reveals 22 December 2024 https://www.outlookindia.com/sports/cricket/champions-trophy-2025-india-all-set-to-play-matches-at-familiar-venue-report-reveals 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.Pakistan to host 2006 Asia Cup 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. KarachiLahoreNational StadiumGaddafi StadiumCapacity: 34,000Capacity: 27,000Matches: 10Matches: 3 200px 200pxPakistan 500 center Pakistan 24 53 67 4 left National Stadium, Karachi Pakistan 31 30 74 20 left Gaddafi Stadium Squads BANBangladesh Squad - Bangladesh Squad - Asia Cup, 2008 Squad https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/asia-cup-2008-298014/bangladesh-squad-352683/series-squads 2022-08-23 ESPNcricinfoHKGHong Kong Squad - Hong Kong Squad - Asia Cup, 2008 Squad https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/asia-cup-2008-298014/hong-kong-squad-352678/series-squads 2022-08-23 ESPNcricinfoINDIndia Squad - India Squad - Asia Cup, 2008 Squad https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/asia-cup-2008-298014/india-squad-352929/series-squads 2022-08-23 ESPNcricinfoSreesanth ruled out of Asia Cup https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/sreesanth-ruled-out-of-asia-cup-355165 2022-09-01 ESPNcricinfoPAKPakistan Squad - Pakistan Squad - Asia Cup, 2008 Squad https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/asia-cup-2008-298014/pakistan-squad-355318/series-squads 2022-08-23 ESPNcricinfoSRISri Lanka Squad - Sri Lanka Squad - Asia Cup, 2008 Squad https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/asia-cup-2008-298014/sri-lanka-squad-351257/series-squads 2022-08-23 ESPNcricinfoUAEUnited Arab Emirates Squad - U.A.E. Squad - Asia Cup, 2008 Squad https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/asia-cup-2008-298014/united-arab-emirates-squad-352680/series-squads 2022-08-23 ESPNcricinfo 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 main CricketRR complete ESPNCricinfo A SL BDESH UAE Q Q 1 1 526 100.0 561 100.0 2 647 100.0 374 100.0 2 352 100.0 590 100.0 BAN SRI UAE #cfc All times are in UTC+5 (PST) 24 June 2008 16:00 y BAN 300/8 (50 overs) 204 (45.4 overs) UAE 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 scorecard Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Ian Gould (Eng) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Mohammad Ashraful (Ban) 25 June 2008 16:00 y SRI 357/9 (50 overs) 226/7 (50 overs) BAN 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 scorecard Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Ian Gould (Eng) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Kumar Sangakkara (SL) 26 June 2008 16:00 y SRI 290/9 (50 overs) 148 (36.3 overs) UAE 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 scorecard Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Ian Gould (Eng) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Ajantha Mendis (SL) Group B main CricketRR complete ESPNCricinfo B INDIA PAK HKG Q Q 2 251 100.0 662 100.0 2 675 92.1 417 100.0 1 1 587 100.0 434 92.1 HKG IND PAK #cfc All times are in UTC+5 (PST) 24 June 2008 16:00 y PAK 288/9 (50 overs) 133 (37.2 overs) Hong Kong 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 scorecard National Stadium, Karachi Tony Hill (NZ) and Brian Jerling (SA) Sohail Tanvir (Pak) 25 June 2008 16:00 y IND 374/4 (50 overs) 118 (36.5 overs) Hong Kong 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 scorecard 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.http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8532/report/335349/hong-kong-vs-india-4th-match-group-b-asia-cup-2008 India thrash sorry Hong Kong ESPN Cricinfo 18 May 2019 National Stadium, Karachi Tony Hill (NZ) and Brian Jerling (SA) Suresh Raina (Ind) 26 June 2008 16:00 y PAK 299/4 (50 overs) 301/4 (42.1 overs) IND 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 scorecard National Stadium, Karachi Tony Hill (NZ) and Brian Jerling (SA) Suresh Raina (Ind) Super Fours main CricketRR complete ESPNCricinfo C SL INDIA PAK BDESH Q Q yes PCO 2 2 3 572 150.0 732 113.0 2 1 902 140.1 900 145.3 2 1 663 115.1 725 150.0 2 1 942 150.0 722 146.5 BAN IND PAK SRI #cfc All times are in UTC+5 (PST) 28 June 2008 16:00 y BAN 283/6 (50 overs) 284/3 (43.2 overs) IND 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 scorecard National Stadium, Karachi Brian Jerling (SA) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Suresh Raina (Ind) 29 June 2008 16:00 y SRI 302/7 (50 overs) 238/9 (50 overs) PAK 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 scorecard National Stadium, Karachi Ian Gould (Eng) and Tony Hill (NZ) Kumar Sangakkara (SL) 30 June 2008 16:00 y SRI 332/8 (50 overs) 174 (38.3 overs) BAN 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 scorecard National Stadium, Karachi Brian Jerling (SA) & Simon Taufel (Aus) Sanath Jayasuriya (SL) 2 July 2008 16:00 y IND 308/7 (50 overs) 309/2 (45.3 overs) PAK 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 scorecard National Stadium, Karachi Ian Gould (Eng) and Tony Hill (NZ) Younis Khan (Pak) Saeed Ajmal (Pak) made his ODI debut. Misbah-ul-Haq (Pak) stood as captain for the first time in ODIs. 3 July 2008 16:00 y IND 310/4 (46.5 overs) 308/8 (50 overs) SRI 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 scorecard National Stadium, Karachi Brian Jerling (SA) and Simon Taufel (Aus) MS Dhoni (Ind) 4 July 2008 16:00 y BAN 115 (38.2 overs) 116/0 (19.4 overs) PAK Tamim Iqbal 26 (41) Abdur Rauf 3/24 (8 overs) Salman Butt 56* (52) Pakistan won by 10 wickets scorecard National Stadium, Karachi Ian Gould (Eng) and Tony Hill (NZ) Abdur Rauf (Pak) Final 6 July 2008 16:00 y SRI 273 (49.5 overs) 173 (39.3 overs) IND 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 scorecard National Stadium, Karachi Tony Hill (NZ) and Simon Taufel (Aus) Ajantha Mendis (SL) India won the toss and elected to field. Statistics Most runs PlayerInningsNORunsAverageSRHS100504s6sSL Sanath Jayasuriya5037875.60126.00130224416IND Suresh Raina6137274.40110.38116*223411IND Virender Sehwag5034869.60143.80119124910SL Kumar Sangakkara6034557.5099.1312133442IND Mahendra Dhoni52327109.0091.34109*12198Updated: 7 October 2022Asia Cup, 2008 Cricket Team Records & Stats ESPNcricinfo.com https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/batting/most_runs_career.html?id=3260&type=tournament 2022-10-07 Cricinfo Most wickets PlayerInningsWicketsRunsOversBBIEcon.Ave.5WISL Ajantha Mendis51714542.06/133.458.522SL Muthiah Muralidaran51118448.05/313.8316.721PAK Sohail Tanvir51024142.05/485.7324.101PAK Iftikhar Anjum5921043.43/514.8023.330IND Rudra Singh5723943.03/675.5534.140BAN Abdur Razzak5724746.23/205.3335.280Updated: 7 October 2022Asia Cup, 2008 Cricket Team Records & Stats ESPNcricinfo.com https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/bowling/most_wickets_career.html?id=3260&type=tournament 2022-10-07 Cricinfo References External links http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/430815.html Asia Cup tournament review ESPNcricinfo http://www.espncricinfo.com/asiacup/content/series/298014.html Asia Cup 2008 ESPNcricinfo Category:2008 in Pakistani cricket Category:Asia Cup Asia Cup, 2008 Cricket Category:International cricket competitions in Pakistan