The 2016 Asia Cup (also called the Micromax Asia Cup T20) was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament that was held in Bangladesh from 24 February to 6 March 2016. It was the 13th edition of the Asia Cup, the fifth to be held in Bangladesh, and the first to be played using the T20I format. Bangladesh hosted the tournament for the third consecutive time after 2012 and 2014. Micromax was the main sponsor of the tournament after 2012.
Along with Bangladesh (the host) and Sri Lanka (the defending champions from the 2014 event), the tournament included India, Pakistan, and ICC associate member the United Arab Emirates, who qualified through a qualifier tournament also played in Bangladesh, from 19 to 22 February 2016.
India beat Bangladesh by 8 wickets in the final to win their sixth Asia Cup title and were unbeaten throughout the tournament.
Teams
(Qualifier)
Squads Mashrafe Mortaza (c) Shakib Al Hasan Imrul Kayes Mohammad Mithun Ali Mahmudullah Mushfiqur Rahim (wk) Soumya Sarkar Sabbir Rahman Nasir Hossain Mustafizur Rahman Al-Amin Hossain Taskin Ahmed Arafat Sunny Abu Hider Nurul Hasan Tamim Iqbal MS Dhoni (c & wk) Virat Kohli (vc) Rohit Sharma Shikhar Dhawan Ajinkya Rahane Suresh Raina Yuvraj Singh Hardik Pandya Ravindra Jadeja Ravichandran Ashwin Jasprit Bumrah Ashish Nehra Harbhajan Singh Pawan Negi Bhuvneshwar Kumar Parthiv Patel (wk) Mohammed Shami Shahid Afridi (c) Iftikhar Ahmed Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk) Umar Akmal Anwar Ali Mohammad Amir Babar Azam Mohammad Hafeez Mohammad Irfan Shoaib Malik Khurram Manzoor Mohammad Nawaz Rumman Raees Wahab Riaz Imad Wasim Sharjeel Khan Mohammad Sami Lasith Malinga (c) Dushmantha Chameera Dinesh Chandimal (wk) Tillakaratne Dilshan Niroshan Dickwella Rangana Herath Shehan Jayasuriya Chamara Kapugedera Nuwan Kulasekara Angelo Mathews Thisara Perera Sachithra Senanayake Dasun Shanaka Milinda Siriwardana Jeffrey Vandersay Amjad Javed (c) Swapnil Patil (wk) Ahmed Raza Fahad Tariq Farhan Ahmed Mohammad Naveed Mohammad Shahzad Muhammad Usman Muhammad Kaleem Qadeer Ahmed Rohan Mustafa Saqlain Haider Shaiman Anwar Usman Mushtaq Zaheer Maqsood
Bhuvneshwar Kumar was added to India's squad as a replacement for Mohammed Shami after Shami failed to fully recover from a hamstring injury. Parthiv Patel was added to India's squad as a back-up for MS Dhoni, who suffered a muscle spasm. Mohammad Sami and Sharjeel Khan were added to Pakistan's squad after injuries to Babar Azam and Rumman Raees and following their performances in 2016 Pakistan Super League. Bangladesh's Mustafizur Rahman was injured during their match against Sri Lanka and was replaced for the rest of the tournament by Tamim Iqbal.
Lasith Malinga was named as Sri Lanka's captain for the tournament, but he only played in their first match. Angelo Mathews captained the side in their second and third matches while Dinesh Chandimal stood as captain in their final match.
Background After the Asian Cricket Council was downsized by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in April 2015, it was announced that upcoming Asia Cup events will be played on rotation basis in One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) format based on respective next world events under the ICC. This means that the 2016 and 2020 events will be played using the T20I format, ahead of the 2016 and 2020 World Twenty20s, and the 2018 and 2022 events will be played in ODI format, ahead of the 2019 and 2023 World Cups respectively.
Venue All eleven matches of the tournament were played at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka.
Mirpur, Dhaka Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium Coordinates: Capacity: 25,416
Group stage Standings Advance to Final
Matches
Final
Statistics
Most runs PlayerInningsRunsNOAve.SRHS100504s6s Sabbir Rahman 5176144.00123.948001155 Virat Kohli4153276.50110.8656*01200 Dinesh Chandimal4149037.25109.555802192 Rohit Sharma5138027.60132.698301174 Tillakaratne Dilshan4132144.00121.1075*01184Updated: 12 September 2022
Most wickets PlayerInningsWicketsOversRunsEcon.Ave.BBI Al-Amin Hossain 51116.51347.9612.803/25 Mohammad Amir4716.0815.0611.573/18 Nuwan Kulasekara4715.0956.3313.573/10 Hardik Pandya5717.301035.8814.713/8 Jasprit Bumrah5618.0945.2215.662/27Updated: 12 September 2022
References
External links Series home at ESPN Cricinfo