1988 Asia Cup

1988 Asia Cup

Administrator(s)	Asian Cricket Council
Cricket format	One-Day International
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin
Host(s)	Bangladesh
Champions	India (2nd title)
Participants	4
Matches played	7
Player of the series	Navjot Sidhu
Most runs	Ijaz Ahmed (192)
Most wickets	Arshad Ayub (9)

The 1988 Asia Cup (also known as the Wills Asia Cup), was the third Asia Cup tournament, and was held in Bangladesh between October 26 and November 4, 1988. Four teams took part in the tournament: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Host nation Bangladesh.

The 1988 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 in which India beat Sri Lanka by 6 wickets to win its second Asia Cup.

Matches

Group stage

Teams	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	RR
Sri Lanka	3	3	0	0	0	12	5.110
India	3	2	1	0	0	8	4.491
Pakistan	3	1	2	0	0	4	4.721
Bangladesh	3	0	3	0	0	0	2.430

27 October 1988 (scorecard)

Pakistan 194/7 (44 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 195/5 (38.5 overs)
Ijaz Ahmed 54 (58) Graeme Labrooy 3/36 (8 overs)		Roshan Mahanama 55 (92) Wasim Akram 2/34 (7.5 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Ram Gupta (BAN) and V K Ramaswamy (IND) Player of the match: Roshan Mahanama (SRI)

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27 October 1988 (scorecard)

Bangladesh 99/8 (45 overs)	v	India 100/1 (26 overs)
Minhajul Abedin 22 (67) Arshad Ayub 3/20 (9 overs)		Navjot Sidhu 50* (71) Azhar Hossain 1/30 (7 overs)

India won by 9 wickets Chittagong Stadium, Chittagong Umpires: KT Francis (SRI) and Tariq Ata (PAK) Player of the match: Navjot Sidhu (IND)

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29 October 1988 (scorecard)

Pakistan 284/3 (45 overs)	v	Bangladesh 111/6 (45 overs)
Ijaz Ahmed 124* (87) Azhar Hossain 1/24 (4 overs)		Athar Ali Khan 22 (52) Iqbal Qasim 3/13 (9 overs)

Pakistan won by 173 runs Chittagong Stadium, Chittagong Umpires: Ram Gupta (IND) and Selliah Ponnadurai (SRI) Player of the match: Moin-ul-Atiq (PAK)

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29 October 1988 (scorecard)

Sri Lanka 271/6 (45 overs)	v	India 254 all out (44 overs)
Aravinda de Silva 69 (63) Kapil Dev 2/39 (9 overs)		Navjot Sidhu 50 (55) Kapila Wijegunawardene 4/49 (9 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 17 runs Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Saleem Badar (PAK) and Tariq Ata (PAK) Player of the match: Aravinda de Silva (SRI)

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31 October 1988 (scorecard)

Pakistan 142 all out (42.2 overs)	v	India 143/6 (40.4 overs)
Moin-ul-Atiq 38 (64) Arshad Ayub 5/21 (9 overs)		Mohinder Amarnath 74* (122) Abdul Qadir 3/27 (9 overs)

India won by 4 wickets Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: KT Francis (SRI) and Selliah Ponnadurai (SRI) Player of the match: Arshad Ayub (IND)

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2 November 1988 (scorecard)

Bangladesh 118/8 (45 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 120/1 (30.5 overs)
Athar Ali Khan 30 (83) Ravi Ratnayeke 4/23 (8 overs)		Brendon Kuruppu 58* (93) Azhar Hossain 1/20 (6.5 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 9 wickets Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: V K Ramaswamy (IND) and Saleem Badar (PAK) Player of the match: Brendon Kuruppu (SRI)

Final

4 November 1998 (scorecard)

Sri Lanka 176 all out (43.2 overs)	v	India 180/4 (37.1 overs)
Duleep Mendis 36 (36) Kris Srikkanth 3/12 (3.2 overs)		Navjot Sidhu 76 (87) Kapila Wijegunawardene 2/33 (9 overs)

India won by 6 wickets Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Saleem Badar (PAK) and Tariq Ata (PAK) Player of the match: Navjot Sidhu (IND)

See also

• Asia Cup

References

• Cricket Archive: Wills Asia Cup 1988/89 http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Seasons/BDESH/1988-89_BDESH_Wills_Asia_Cup_1988-89.html
• CricInfo: Asia Cup in Bangladesh (Bdesh Ind Pak SL) : Oct/Nov 1988 http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988-89/OD_TOURNEYS/ASIA/

External links

• Cricinfo tournament page