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. 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.
Tournament structure
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. The tournament was the first edition of Asia Cup to feature coloured player clothing and to be played with a white ball.
Venue 7 matches were played at Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka. CityVenueCapacityMatches Dhaka, Dhaka Division Bangabandhu National Stadium 36,000 7
Squads 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
Match summary
Final
Statistics
Most runs PlayerMatchesInningsRunsAverageSRHS100504s6s Yousuf Youhana44295147.5073.75100*12234 Marvan Atapattu4424581.6672.2710011181 Sanath Jayasuriya4418345.7587.5510510230 Inzamam-ul-Haq4417587.50109.3775*02163 Sourav Ganguly3315678.0092.85135*1097Source: Cricinfo
Most wickets PlayerMatchesInningsWicketsOversEcon.Ave.BBIS/R4WI5WI Abdul Razzaq33819.23.829.254/2914.510 Azhar Mahmood445303.5321.203/2436.000 Ajit Agarkar335304.6327.802/4736.000 Arshad Khan445383.6828.002/4245.600 Wasim Akram334204.0520.252/3830.000Source: Cricinfo
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