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1997 Asia Cup

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1997 Asia Cup
Administrator(s)Asian Cricket Council
Cricket formatOne Day International
Tournament format(s)Round-robinandKnockout
Host(s)Sri Lanka
ChampionsSri Lanka(2nd title)
Runners-upIndia
Participants4
Matches7
Player of the seriesSri LankaArjuna Ranatunga
Most runsSri LankaArjuna Ranatunga(272)
Most wicketsIndiaVenkatesh Prasad(7)
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The1997 Asia Cup(also known as thePepsi Asia Cup 1997) was the sixthAsia Cuptournament, and the second to be held inSri Lanka.The tournament took place between July 14–26, 1997. Four teams took part in the tournament:India,Pakistan,Sri LankaandBangladesh.

The 1997 Asia Cup was around-robin tournamentwhere 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

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Squads[1]
India Sri Lanka Pakistan 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

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Group stage

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Pld W L T NR Pts NRR
Sri Lanka 3 3 0 0 0 6 1.035
India 3 1 1 0 1 3 1.405
Pakistan 3 1 1 0 1 3 0.940
Bangladesh 3 0 3 0 0 0 -2.895
14 July 1997
Scorecard
Sri Lanka
239 (49.5 overs)
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Pakistan
224/9 (50 overs)
Marvan Atapattu80 (113)
Kabir Khan2/49 (8 overs)
Saleem Malik57 (79)
Sanath Jayasuriya4/49 (10 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 15 runs
R Premadasa Stadium,Colombo
Umpires:Shyam Bansal(Ind) andS Venkataraghavan(Ind)
Player of the match:Marvan Atapattu(SL)
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
16 July 1997
Scorecard
Pakistan
319/5 (50 overs)
v
Bangladesh
210 (49.3 overs)
Saeed Anwar90 (94)
Saiful Islam1/45 (7 overs)
Athar Ali Khan82 (125)
Saqlain Mushtaq5/38 (9.3 overs)
Pakistan won by 105 runs
R Premadasa Stadium,Colombo
Umpires:Shyam Bansal(Ind) andB. C. Cooray(SL)
Player of the match:Saeed Anwar(Pak)
18 July 1997
Scorecard
India
227/6 (50 overs)
v
Sri Lanka
231/4 (44.4 overs)
Arjuna Ranatunga131*(152)
Robin Singh2/29 (4 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 6 wickets
R Premadasa Stadium,Colombo
Umpires:Mohammad Nazir(Pak) andSaleem Badar(Pak)
Player of the match:Arjuna Ranatunga(SL)
  • Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
20 July 1997
Scorecard
Pakistan
30/5 (9 overs)
v
Saleem Malik10 (13)
Venkatesh Prasad4/17 (5 overs)
No result
SSCG,Colombo
Umpires:B. C. Cooray(SL) andK. 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
Scorecard
v
Match abandoned without a ball bowled
SSCG,Colombo
Umpires:B. C. Cooray(SL) andK. T. Francis(SL)
22 July 1997
Scorecard
Sri Lanka
296/4 (46 overs)
v
Bangladesh
193/8 (46 overs)
Sanath Jayasuriya108 (83)
Minhajul Abedin2-43 (9 overs)
Naimur Rahman47 (85)
Muralitharan2-29 (10 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 103 runs
SSCG,Colombo
Umpires:Saleem Badar(Pak) andS 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
Bangladesh
130/8 (43 overs)
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India
132/1 (15 overs)
Athar Ali Khan33 (69)
Robin Singh3/13 (9 overs)
Sourav Ganguly73 (52)
Enamul Haque1/34 (3 overs)
India won by 9 wickets
SSCG,Colombo
Umpires:K. T. Francis(SL) andMohammad 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

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26 July 1997
Scorecard
India
239/7 (50 overs)
v
Sri Lanka
240/2 (36.5 overs)
Mohammad Azharuddin81 (102)
Chaminda Vaas2/32 (8 overs)
MS Atapattu84 (101)
Nilesh Kulkarni1/48 (10 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets
R. Premadasa Stadium,Colombo
Umpires:Mohammad Nazir(Pak) andSaleem 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

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Most runs

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

Most wickets

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^Cricinfo Asia Cup pageCricinfo. Retrieved on 17 September 2021
  2. ^"Pepsi Asia Cup, 1997 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo".Cricinfo.Retrieved2021-11-06.
  3. ^"Pepsi Asia Cup, 1997 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo".Cricinfo.Retrieved2021-11-06.
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