The 2012 Asia Cup (also called Micromax Asia Cup) was the eleventh edition of the Asia cup cricket tournament held in Bangladesh from 11 to 22 March 2012. Like the previous event, the tournament featured the four Test-playing nations from Asia: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. India entered the tournament as the defending 2010 Asia Cup champions. Pakistan won the tournament by beating Bangladesh in the final by 2 runs.
Background China was interested in hosting the Asia Cup at Guangzhou but the Asian Cricket Council decided that Bangladesh will host the event. It was the third time Bangladesh hosted the event after 1988 and 2000.
The event was supposed to be held between 1 and 11 March 2012, but was rescheduled to avoid a clash of dates with the ODI tri-series in Australia that also included Sri Lanka and India, which ended on 8 March. The tournament was played from 11 to 22 March.
Venues All 7 matches were played at the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur.
City Venue Capacity Matches Mirpur, Dhaka Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium 26,000 7
Squads Mushfiqur Rahim (c & wk) Mahmudullah (vc) Tamim Iqbal Imrul Kayes Nazimuddin Jahurul Islam (wk) Anamul Haque (wk) Shakib Al Hasan Nasir Hossain Elias Sunny Abdur Razzak Mashrafe Mortaza Shahadat Hossain Nazmul Hossain Shafiul Islam MS Dhoni (c & wk) Virat Kohli (vc) Sachin Tendulkar Gautam Gambhir Suresh Raina Rohit Sharma Manoj Tiwary Yusuf Pathan Irfan Pathan Ravindra Jadeja Ravichandran Ashwin Rahul Sharma Praveen Kumar Vinay Kumar Ashok Dinda Misbah-ul-Haq (c) Mohammad Hafeez Nasir Jamshed Younis Khan Asad Shafiq Umar Akmal Azhar Ali Shahid Afridi Hammad Azam Sarfraz Ahmed (wk) Saeed Ajmal Abdur Rehman Umar Gul Wahab Riaz Aizaz Cheema Mahela Jayawardene (c) Tillakaratne Dilshan Upul Tharanga Kumar Sangakkara (wk) Dinesh Chandimal (wk) Lahiru Thirimanne Chamara Kapugedera Thisara Perera Sachithra Senanayake Seekkuge Prasanna Farveez Maharoof Nuwan Kulasekara Lasith Malinga Suranga Lakmal Shaminda Eranga Angelo MathewsWithdrawn on 14 March 2012 due to injury. Replaced with Shaminda Eranga.
Notes
Points table
Points system: Win: 4 points Loss: no points Tie/No result: 2 points Bonus point: If a team wins, with a run rate ≥ 1.25 times that of the opposing team, that team gets 1 bonus point. (A team's run rate is number of runs scored divided by number of overs faced, except that a team is treated as having faced the full 50 overs if it loses all of its wickets)
If two or more teams have the same number of points, the right to play in the final is determined as follows: The team having the higher number of wins. If two or more teams have same number of wins, the team with more wins against the other teams who have equal number of points and wins. (Head to head) If still equal, the team with the higher number of bonus points. If still equal, the team with the greater net run rate.
Matches
Group stage matches 1st Match All times local (UTC+06:00)
2nd Match
3rd Match
4th Match
5th Match
6th Match
Final
Records and statistics
Batting Player Team Matches Runs Average 100s 50s 3 357 119 102 183 2 1 4 253 63.25 80.831 70 0 4 4 245 61.25 67.867 105 1 1 4 237 59.25 110.233 68 0 3 4 193 48.25 96.02 112 1 1 Source:ESPNCricinfo
Bowling Player Team Matches Wickets Runs Average 4 9 208 23.111 24 3/58 5.778 0 4 8 161 20.125 28.25 3/27 4.274 0 4 8 196 24.5 24.75 4/43 5.939 1 4 6 154 25.667 40 2/26 3.85 0 4 6 177 29.5 39.833 2/44 4.444 0 Source:ESPNCricinfo
References
External links
2012 Asia Cup on ESPNcricinfo