The 1984 Asia Cup (also known as the Rothmans Asia Cup) was the inaugural edition of the Asia Cup. It was held in Sharjah, UAE, which was the location of the newly formed Asian Cricket Council. The new tournament was held between April 6–13, in 1984 and three teams took part: India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium hosted its first One Day International (ODI) match.
The 1984 Asia Cup was a round-robin tournament where each team played the other once. India won both its matches, winning the inaugural Cup. Sri Lanka came in second while Pakistan lost both its matches.
Squads
SquadsCricinfo Asia Cup page Cricinfo. Retrieved on 14 September 2021 Sunil Gavaskar (c) Duleep Mendis (c) Zaheer Abbas (c) Surinder Khanna (wk) Brendon Kuruppu (wk) Mohsin Khan Ghulam Parkar Sidath Wettimuny Saadat Ali Dilip Vengsarkar Roy Dias Mudassar Nazar Sandeep Patil Ranjan Madugalle Javed Miandad Ravi Shastri Arjuna Ranatunga Saleem Malik Kirti Azad Aravinda de Silva Abdul Qadir Roger Binny Uvais Karnain Shahid Mahboob Madan Lal Ravi Ratnayeke Sarfraz Nawaz Manoj Prabhakar Somachandra De Silva Anil Dalpat (wk) Chetan Sharma Vinothen John Rashid Khan - - Qasim Umar - - Azeem Hafeez
Matches Group stage
Statistics
Most runs PlayerMatchesInningsRunsAverageSRHS100504s6s Surinder Khanna 22107107.0075.88560292 Zaheer Abbas227437.0065.48470032 Roy Dias226262.0050.8157*0110 Mohsin Khan226231.7131.00350030 Ghulam Parkar225454.0043.9032*0050Source: Cricinfo
Most wickets PlayerMatchesInningsWicketsOversEcon.Ave.BBIS/R4WI5WI Ravi Shastri 224173.1113.253/4025.500 Madan Lal 223142.2810.663/1128.000 Arjuna Ranatunga213103.8012.663/3820.000 Chetan Sharma 223152.6613.333/2230.000 Roger Binny 22316.43.4819.333/3333.300Source: Cricinfo
References
External links Cricinfo tournament page Cricket Archive: Rothmans Asia Cup 1983/84 CricInfo: Asia Cup (Ind Pak SL) in Sharjah: Apr 1984