Series: | Asian Test Championship 2001-02 |
Date: | 8 December – 29 August - 6 March 2001 |
Place: | Sri Lanka and Pakistan |
Result: | won the 2001 Asian Test Championship |
Captain1: | Sanath Jayasuriya |
Captain2: | Naimur Rahman |
Captain3: | Waqar Younis |
Runs1: | Kumar Sangakkara (298) |
Runs2: | Mohammad Ashraful (140) |
Runs3: | Inzamam-ul-Haq (233) |
Wickets1: | Muttiah Muralitharan (18) |
Wickets2: | Naimur Rahman (2) |
Wickets3: | Danish Kaneria (12) |
The 2001 Asian Test Championship was a Test cricket tournament held in Sri Lanka and Pakistan in August 2001.[1] It was a tri-nation series between the national representative cricket teams of the Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan, where India did not participated to the series. The hosts Sri Lanka won the tournament by defeating Pakistan by 8 wickets in the final.[2]