The 2008 Asia Cup (also called Star Cricket Asia Cup) was a One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament, held in Pakistan from 24 June to 6 July 2008, at two venues. The six teams which took part in the tournament were India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Asian associate nations UAE and Hong Kong. This was the first Asia Cup hosted by Pakistan; previously political tensions between India and Pakistan did not permit Pakistan to host the event in 1993. It was broadcast in India by Star Cricket and ESPN and in Pakistan by Geo Super. Sri Lanka won the tournament after beating India by 100 runs in the final.
Due to the 2008 Mumbai attacks and security reasons, this is the last time India has played a tournament in Pakistan.
Format Originally, the ninth version of the Cup was supposed to take place in 2006, however packed international cricket schedules did not allow for the tournament to be held.Pakistan to host 2006 Asia Cup
Group A consisted of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates.
Group B consisted of India, Pakistan and Hong Kong.
The two groups first had a separate round-robin competition. The top two teams from each group advanced to the Super Fours. There was again a round-robin competition between the teams in the Super Four, the first two from which advanced to the final.
Venues 13 matches were played in 2008 Asia Cup at National Stadium, Karachi and Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore. KarachiLahoreNational StadiumGaddafi StadiumCapacity: 34,000Capacity: 27,000Matches: 10Matches: 3
Squads Mohammad Ashraful (c) Alok Kapali Mashrafe Mortaza Abdur Razzak Dolar Mahmud Farhad Reza Mahmudullah Mehrab Hossain Jnr Mosharraf Hossain Mushfiqur Rahim (wk) Nazimuddin Raqibul Hasan Shahadat Hossain Shahriar Nafees Tamim Iqbal Tabarak Dar (c) Afzaal Haider Ashish Gadhia Jamie Atkinson (wk) Toby Brown Hussain Butt Irfan Ahmed Courtney Kruger Roy Lamsam Munir Dar Nadeem Ahmed Najeeb Amar Skhawat Ali Waqas Barkat Zain Abbas MS Dhoni (c & wk) Yuvraj Singh (vc) Robin Uthappa Gautam Gambhir Virender Sehwag Rohit Sharma Suresh Raina Yusuf Pathan Irfan Pathan Ishant Sharma Praveen Kumar R. P. Singh Piyush Chawla Pragyan Ojha Manpreet Gony S. Sreesanth Shoaib Malik (c) Misbah ul Haq (vc) Abdur Rauf Fawad Alam Iftikhar Anjum Mansoor Amjad Mohammad Yousuf Nasir Jamshed Saeed Ajmal Salman Butt Sarfraz Ahmed (wk) Shahid Afridi Sohail Tanvir Wahab Riaz Younis Khan Umar Gul Mahela Jayawardene (c) Tillakaratne Dilshan Dilhara Fernando Sanath Jayasuriya Chamara Kapugedera Nuwan Kulasekara Ajantha Mendis Jehan Mubarak Muttiah Muralitharan Kumar Sangakkara (wk) Chamara Silva Thilan Thushara Mahela Udawatte Chaminda Vaas Kaushalya Weeraratne Farveez Maharoof Saqib Ali (c) Alawi Shukri Aman Ali Amjad Ali (wk) Amjad Javed Arshad Ali Indika Batuwitarachchi Fahad Alhashmi Nizel Fernandes Khurram Khan Mohammad Tauqir Salman Farooq Vikrant Shetty Shadeep Silva Zahid Shah
Group stage
Group A
All times are in UTC+5 (PST)
Group B
All times are in UTC+5 (PST)
Super Fours
All times are in UTC+5 (PST)
Final
Statistics
Most runs PlayerInningsNORunsAverageSRHS100504s6s Sanath Jayasuriya5037875.60126.00130224416 Suresh Raina6137274.40110.38116*223411 Virender Sehwag5034869.60143.80119124910 Kumar Sangakkara6034557.5099.1312133442 Mahendra Dhoni52327109.0091.34109*12198Updated: 7 October 2022
Most wickets PlayerInningsWicketsRunsOversBBIEcon.Ave.5WI Ajantha Mendis51714542.06/133.458.522 Muthiah Muralidaran51118448.05/313.8316.721 Sohail Tanvir51024142.05/485.7324.101 Iftikhar Anjum5921043.43/514.8023.330 Rudra Singh5723943.03/675.5534.140 Abdur Razzak5724746.23/205.3335.280Updated: 7 October 2022
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