2000 Asia Cup Explained

2000 Asia Cup
Administrator:Asian Cricket Council
Cricket Format:One Day International
Tournament Format:Round-robin and Knockout
Host: Bangladesh
Count:1
Participants:4
Matches:7
Most Runs: Yousuf Youhana (295)
Most Wickets: Abdul Razzaq (8)
Previous Year:1997
Previous Tournament:1997 Asia Cup
Next Year:2004
Next Tournament:2004 Asia Cup

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.[1] 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.

Venue

7 matches were played at Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka.

Squads

Aminul Islam (c)Sourav Ganguly (c) Moin Khan (c) & (wk) Sanath Jayasuriya (c)
Marvan Atapattu
Sachin TendulkarYousuf YouhanaMahela Jayawardene
Mohammad AzharuddinSaeed AnwarAravinda De Silva
Ajay JadejaImran NazirRussel Arnold
Hemang BadaniShahid AfridiTillakaratne Dilshan
Robin SinghIndika De Saram
Ajit AgarkarShoaib MalikRomesh Kaluwitharana (wk)
Khaled Mashud (wk)Anil KumbleWasim AkramUpul Chandana
Thiru KumaranMohammad WasimChaminda Vaas
Amit BhandariMohammad AkramNuwan Zoysa
Nayan Mongia (wk) Azhar MahmoodMuttiah Muralitharan
Nikhil ChopraShabbir AhmedSajeewa de Silva
Sunil JoshiArshad KhanKaushalya Weeraratne

Group stage table

PosTeamPldWLNRPtsNRR
1 3 3 0 0 6 +1.920
2 3 2 1 0 4 +1.077
33 1 2 0 2 −0.416
43 0 3 0 0 −2.800

Match summary

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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*1097
Source: Cricinfo[2]

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 Akram334204.0520.252/3830.000
Source: Cricinfo[3]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Asia Cup: No problem in selecting the probables. AC. Ganesh. 3 May 2000. ESPNcricinfo. 11 September 2017.
  2. Web site: Asia Cup, 2000 Cricket Team Records & Stats ESPNcricinfo.com. 2021-11-06. ESPNcricinfo.
  3. Web site: Asia Cup, 2000 Cricket Team Records & Stats ESPNcricinfo.com. 2021-11-06. ESPNcricinfo.