1997 Asia Cup

Cricket tournament in Sri Lanka 1997 Asia Cup Asia cup logo 1997.jpg 14 26 July 1997 Asian Cricket Council One Day International Round-robin and Knockout Sri Lanka SRI IND 2 4 7 SRI Arjuna Ranatunga SRI Arjuna Ranatunga (272) IND Venkatesh Prasad (7) 1995 1995 Asia Cup 2000 2000 Asia Cup 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 SquadsCricinfo Asia Cup page Cricinfo. Retrieved on 17 September 2021 IND SRI PAK BAN 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 main CricketRR no ESPN Cricinfo complete SRI, IND, PAK, BAN 0 3 0 0 -2.895 1 1 0 1 1.405 1 1 0 1 0.940 3 0 0 0 1.035 BAN IND PAK SRI H Q Q E E Q green1 Advanced to the Final #fcc Eliminated 2 1 1 14 July 1997 SRI 239 (49.5 overs) 224/9 (50 overs) PAK 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 Pakistan won the toss and elected to field. Scorecard R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Shyam Bansal (Ind) and S Venkataraghavan (Ind) Marvan Atapattu (SL) 16 July 1997 PAK 319/5 (50 overs) 210 (49.3 overs) BAN 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 Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat. Sheikh Salahuddin (Ban) made his ODI debut. Scorecard R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Shyam Bansal (Ind) and B. C. Cooray (SL) Saeed Anwar (Pak) 18 July 1997 IND 227/6 (50 overs) 231/4 (44.4 overs) SRI 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 Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field. Scorecard R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Mohammad Nazir (Pak) and Saleem Badar (Pak) Arjuna Ranatunga (SL) 20 July 1997 PAK 30/5 (9 overs) IND Saleem Malik 10 (13) Venkatesh Prasad 4/17 (5 overs) No result Scorecard India won the toss and elected to field. SSCG, Colombo B. C. Cooray (SL) and K. T. Francis (SL) 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 PAK IND Match abandoned without a ball bowled Scorecard SSCG, Colombo B. C. Cooray (SL) and K. T. Francis (SL) 22 July 1997 SRI 296/4 (46 overs) 193/8 (46 overs) BAN Sanath Jayasuriya 108 (83) Minhajul Abedin 2-43 (9 overs) Naimur Rahman 47 (85) Muralitharan 2-29 (10 overs) Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field. Mafizur Rahman (Ban) made his ODI debut. Sri Lanka won by 103 runs Scorecard SSCG, Colombo Saleem Badar (Pak) and S Venkataraghavan (Ind) Sanath Jayasuriya (SL) 24 July 1997 BAN 130/8 (43 overs) 132/1 (15 overs) IND 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 India won the toss and elected to field. Zakir Hasan (Ban) made his ODI debut. Scorecard SSCG, Colombo K. T. Francis (SL) and Mohammad Nazir (Pak) Sourav Ganguly (Ind) Final 26 July 1997 IND 239/7 (50 overs) 240/2 (36.5 overs) SRI 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 India won the toss and elected to bat. Nilesh Kulkarni (Ind) made his ODI debut. Scorecard R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Mohammad Nazir (Pak) and Saleem Badar (Pak) MS Atapattu (SL) Statistics Most runs PlayerMatchesInningsRunsAverageSRHS100504s6sSL Arjuna Ranatunga44272136.0088.02131*12293SL Marvan Atapattu4425585.0073.9184*03181SL Sanath Jayasuriya4420451.00115.2510811236IND Mohammad Azharuddin43185185.0082.2281*0284BAN Athar Ali Khan3315752.3362.308201172Source: CricinfoPepsi Asia Cup, 1997 Cricket Team Records & Stats ESPNcricinfo.com https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/batting/most_runs_career.html?id=749&type=tournament 2021-11-06 Cricinfo Most wickets PlayerMatchesInningsWicketsOversEcon.Ave.BBIS/R4WI5WIIND Venkatesh Prasad447246.0717.004/1720.510PAK Saqlain Mushtaq32619.36.5312.665/3819.501SL Sanath Jayasuriya436306.2724.504/4930.010IND Robin Singh435166.1013.603/1319.200SL Chaminda Vaas335227.5719.402/3226.400Source: CricinfoPepsi Asia Cup, 1997 Cricket Team Records & Stats ESPNcricinfo.com https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/bowling/most_wickets_career.html?id=749&type=tournament 2021-11-06 Cricinfo See also Asia Cup References External links Cricket archive tournament page ESPN Cricinfo: Asia Cup in Sri Lanka, Jul 1997 http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/series/61008.html 1997 Category:1997 in Sri Lankan cricket Category:International cricket competitions from 1994–95 to 1997 Cricket, Asia Cup, 1997 Category:International cricket competitions in Sri Lanka Category:July 1997 sports events in Asia