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2000 Asia Cup

Summary

2000 Asia Cup (as called Pepsi Asia Cup) was the seventh edition of the Asia Cup for cricket, which was held in Bangladesh between 29 May – 7 June 2000.[1] India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh took part in the tournament. Pakistan won their first ever Asia cup beating Sri Lanka by 39 runs in the final. All the games were played at Dhaka's Bangabandhu National Stadium. Yousuf Youhana was declared the Man of the Series.

2000 Asia Cup
Administrator(s)Asian Cricket Council
Cricket formatOne Day International
Tournament format(s)Round-robin and Knockout
Host(s) Bangladesh
Champions Pakistan (1st title)
Runners-up Sri Lanka
Participants4
Matches7
Player of the seriesPakistan Yousuf Youhana
Most runsPakistan Yousuf Youhana (295)
Most wicketsPakistan Abdul Razzaq (8)
← 1997
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Tournament structure edit

Each side played each other once in the group stages. The top 2 teams based on points at the end of the group stages met each other in a one-off final. Each win yielded 2 points while a tie/no result yielded 1 point.

Venue edit

7 matches were played at Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka.

City Venue Capacity Matches
Dhaka, Dhaka Division Bangabandhu National Stadium
 36,000 7
 
 

Squads edit

  Bangladesh   India   Pakistan   Sri Lanka
Aminul Islam (c) Sourav Ganguly (c) Moin Khan (c) & (wk) Sanath Jayasuriya (c)
Javed Omar Rahul Dravid Inzamam-ul-Haq Marvan Atapattu
Shahriar Hossain Sachin Tendulkar Yousuf Youhana Mahela Jayawardene
Mohammad Rafique Mohammad Azharuddin Saeed Anwar Aravinda De Silva
Akram Khan Ajay Jadeja Imran Nazir Russel Arnold
Habibul Bashar Hemang Badani Shahid Afridi Tillakaratne Dilshan
Mohammad Manjural Islam Robin Singh Abdul Razzaq Indika De Saram
Khaled Mahmud Ajit Agarkar Shoaib Malik Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk)
Khaled Mashud (wk) Anil Kumble Wasim Akram Upul Chandana
Naimur Rahman Thiru Kumaran Mohammad Wasim Chaminda Vaas
Enamul Haque Amit Bhandari Mohammad Akram Nuwan Zoysa
Hasibul Hossain Nayan Mongia (wk) Azhar Mahmood Muttiah Muralitharan
Shafiuddin Ahmed Nikhil Chopra Shabbir Ahmed Sajeewa de Silva
Mushfiqur Rahman Sunil Joshi Arshad Khan Kaushalya Weeraratne

Group stage table edit

Pos Team Pld W L NR Pts NRR
1   Pakistan 3 3 0 0 6 +1.920
2   Sri Lanka 3 2 1 0 4 +1.077
3   India 3 1 2 0 2 −0.416
4   Bangladesh 3 0 3 0 0 −2.800

Match summary edit

29 May 2000
(Scorecard)
Bangladesh  
175/6 (50 overs)
v
  Sri Lanka
178/1 (30.4 overs)
Javed Omar 85* (146)
Chaminda Vaas 2/28 (10 overs)
Aravinda de Silva 96 (93)
Mohammad Rafique 1/42 (10 overs)
  Sri Lanka won by 9 wickets
Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
Umpires: S Venkataraghavan (IND) and Saleem Badar (PAK)
Player of the match: Aravinda de Silva (SRI)
30 May 2000
(Scorecard)
Bangladesh  
249/6 (50 overs)
v
  India
252/2 (40.1 overs)
Akram Khan 64 (52)
Thiru Kumaran 3/54 (9 overs)
Saurav Ganguly 135* (124)
Enamul Haque 1/28 (5 overs)
  India won by 8 wickets
Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
Umpires: B. C. Cooray (SRI) and Mohammad Nazir (PAK)
Player of the match: Saurav Ganguly (IND)
1 June 2000
(scorecard)
Sri Lanka  
276/8 (50 overs)
v
  India
205 (45 overs)
Sanath Jayasuriya 105 (116)
Sachin Tendulkar 2/44 (8 overs)
Sachin Tendulkar 93 (95)
Kaushalya Weeraratne 3/46 (9 overs)
  Sri Lanka win by 71 runs
Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
Umpires: Saleem Badar (PAK) and Mohammad Nazir (PAK)
Player of the match: Sanath Jayasuriya
  • Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
2 June 2000
(scorecard)
Pakistan  
320/3 (50 overs)
v
  Bangladesh
87 (34.2 overs)
Imran Nazir 80 (76)
Naimur Rahman 1/41 (10 overs)
Habibul Bashar 23 (44)
Abdul Razzaq 3/5 (4 overs)
  Pakistan won by 233 runs
Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
Umpires: S Venkataraghavan (IND) and Arani Jayaprakash(IND)
Player of the match: Imran Nazir (PAK)
3 June 2000
Scorecard
Pakistan  
295/7 (50 overs)
v
  India
251 (47.4 overs)
Yousuf Youhana 100 (112)
Anil Kumble 3/43 (10 overs)
Ajay Jadeja 93 (103)
Abdul Razzaq 4/29 (8 overs)
  Pakistan won by 44 runs
Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
Umpires: B. C. Cooray (SL) and Asoka de Silva (SL)
Player of the match: Yousuf Youhana (PAK)
5 June 2000
Scorecard
Sri Lanka  
192 (49 overs)
v
  Pakistan
193/3 (48.2 overs)
Marvan Atapattu 62 (102)
Azhar Mahmood 3/24 (8 overs)
Yousuf Youhana 90 (130)
Sajeewa de Silva 2/34 (6 overs)
  Pakistan won by 7 wickets
Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
Umpires: Srinivas Venkataraghavan (Ind) and Arani Jayaprakash (Ind)
Player of the match: Yousuf Youhana (PAK)
  • Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.

Final edit

7 June 2000
Scorecard
Pakistan  
277/4 (50 overs)
v
  Sri Lanka
238 (45.2 overs)
Saeed Anwar 82 (115)
Nuwan Zoysa 2/44 (8 overs)
Marvan Atapattu 100 (124)
Arshad Khan 2/42 (10 overs)
  Pakistan won by 39 runs
Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka
Umpires: Shyam Bansal (Ind) and Arani Jayaprakash (Ind)

Statistics edit

Most runs edit

Player Matches Innings Runs Average SR HS 100 50 4s 6s
  Yousuf Youhana 4 4 295 147.50 73.75 100* 1 2 23 4
  Marvan Atapattu 4 4 245 81.66 72.27 100 1 1 18 1
  Sanath Jayasuriya 4 4 183 45.75 87.55 105 1 0 23 0
  Inzamam-ul-Haq 4 4 175 87.50 109.37 75* 0 2 16 3
  Sourav Ganguly 3 3 156 78.00 92.85 135* 1 0 9 7
Source: Cricinfo[4]

Most wickets edit

Player Matches Innings Wickets Overs Econ. Ave. BBI S/R 4WI 5WI
  Abdul Razzaq 3 3 8 19.2 3.82 9.25 4/29 14.5 1 0
  Azhar Mahmood 4 4 5 30 3.53 21.20 3/24 36.0 0 0
  Ajit Agarkar 3 3 5 30 4.63 27.80 2/47 36.0 0 0
  Arshad Khan 4 4 5 38 3.68 28.00 2/42 45.6 0 0
  Wasim Akram 3 3 4 20 4.05 20.25 2/38 30.0 0 0
Source: Cricinfo[5]

References edit

  1. ^ Ganesh, AC (3 May 2000). "Asia Cup: No problem in selecting the probables". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  2. ^ Sportstar, Team (17 September 2023). "IND vs SL: Sri Lanka 50 all out, records lowest Asia Cup total in final". Sportstar. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
  3. ^ "Mohammad Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja make their last appearance for India". Cricket Country. 2 September 2016. Archived from the original on 2 November 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  4. ^ "Asia Cup, 2000 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Asia Cup, 2000 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 6 November 2021.

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