1995 Asia Cup

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1995 Asia Cup
Administrator(s)Asian Cricket Council
Cricket formatOne Day International
Tournament format(s)Round-robin and Knockout
Host(s) United Arab Emirates
Champions India (4th title)
Runners-up Sri Lanka
Participants4
Matches7
Player of the seriesIndia Navjot Sidhu
Most runsIndia Sachin Tendulkar (205)
Most wicketsIndia Anil Kumble (7)
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The 1995 Asia Cup (also known as the Pepsi Asia Cup), was the fifth Asia Cup tournament, and the second to be held in Sharjah, UAE. The tournament took place between April 5–14, 1995. Four teams took part in the tournament: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

The 1995 Asia Cup was a round-robin tournament where each team played the other once, and the top two teams qualifying for a place in the final. India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka all had four points at the end of the round-robin stage, but India and Sri Lanka qualified for the final on the basis of better run-rates. India beat Sri Lanka by 8 wickets to win its third consecutive (and fourth in total) Asia Cup.

Squads[]

Squads[1]
 India  Sri Lanka  Pakistan  Bangladesh
Mohammad Azharuddin (c) Arjuna Ranatunga (c) Moin Khan (c) & (wk) Akram Khan (c)
Manoj Prabhakar Asanka Gurusinha Aamer Sohail Athar Ali Khan
Sachin Tendulkar Sanath Jayasuriya Saeed Anwar Javed Omar
Navjot Singh Sidhu Roshan Mahanama Ghulam Ali Sajjad Ahmed
Sanjay Manjrekar Aravinda de Silva Inzamam-ul-Haq Aminul Islam
Ajay Jadeja Hashan Tillakaratne Asif Mujtaba Minhajul Abedin
Nayan Mongia (wk) Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk) Wasim Akram Enamul Haque
Anil Kumble Kumar Dharmasena Zafar Iqbal Mohammad Rafique
Javagal Srinath Chaminda Vaas Naeem Ashraf Khaled Mashud (wk)
Venkatesh Prasad Muttiah Muralitharan Nadeem Khan Saiful Islam
Aashish Kapoor Janak Gamage Aaqib Javed Anisur Rahman
Vinod Kambli Ruwan Kalpage Aamer Nazir Habibul Bashar
Prashant Vaidya Chamara Dunusinghe Arshad Khan Hasibul Hossain
Utpal Chatterjee Champaka Ramanayake Mahmood Hamid Naimur Rahman

Matches[]

Group stage[]

Team Pld W L T NR Pts RR
 India 3 2 1 0 0 4 4.856
 Sri Lanka 3 2 1 0 0 4 4.701
 Pakistan 3 2 1 0 0 4 4.596
 Bangladesh 3 0 3 0 0 0 2.933
5 April 1995
Scorecard
Bangladesh 
163 (44.4 overs)
v
 India
164/1 (27.5 overs)
Aminul Islam 30 (53)
Anil Kumble 2/23 (8 overs)
Navjot Sidhu 56* (51)
Mohammad Rafique 1/15 (5 overs)
India won by 9 wickets
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Nigel Plews (Eng) and Ian Robinson (Zim)
Player of the match: Manoj Prabhakar (Ind)
6 April 1995
Scorecard
Sri Lanka 
233 (49.4 overs)
v
 Bangladesh
126 (44.2 overs)
Arjuna Ranatunga 71 (72)
Saiful Islam 4/36 (10 overs)
Minhajul Abedin 26 (37)
Muttiah Muralitharan 4/23 (8.2 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 107 runs
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Cyril Mitchley (RSA) and Nigel Plews (Eng)
Player of the match: Arjuna Ranatunga (SL)
7 April 1995
Scorecard
Pakistan 
266/9 (50 overs)
v
 India
169 (42.4 overs)
Inzamam-ul-Haq 88 (100)
Anil Kumble 2/29 (8 overs)
Navjot Sidhu 54 (108)
Aaqib Javed 5/19 (9 overs)
Pakistan won by 97 runs
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Cyril Mitchley (RSA) and Ian Robinson (Zim)
Player of the match: Aaqib Javed (Pak)
8 April 1995
Scorecard
Bangladesh 
151/8 (50 overs)
v
 Pakistan
152/4 (29.4 overs)
Akram Khan 44 (82)
Aamer Nazir 2/23 (7 overs)
Ghulam Ali 38 (53)
Athar Ali Khan 1/10 (2 overs)
Pakistan won by 6 wickets
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Nigel Plews (Eng) and Ian Robinson (Zim)
Player of the match: Wasim Akram (Pak)
9 April 1995
Scorecard
Sri Lanka 
202/9 (50 overs)
v
 India
206/2 (33.1 overs)
Hashan Tillakaratne 48 (78)
Venkatesh Prasad 3/37 (10 overs)
Sachin Tendulkar 112 (107)
Sanath Jayasuriya 2/42 (10 overs)
India won by 8 wickets
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Cyril Mitchley (RSA) and Nigel Plews (Eng)
Player of the match: Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)
11 April 1995
Scorecard
Pakistan 
178/9 (50 overs)
v
 Sri Lanka
180/5 (30.5 overs)
Inzamam-ul-Haq 73 (96)
Champaka Ramanayake 3/25 (10 overs)
Roshan Mahanama 48 (74)
Aamer Sohail 2/21 (5 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Cyril Mitchley (RSA) and Ian Robinson (Zim)
Player of the match: Sanath Jayasuriya (SL)

Final[]

14 April 1995
Scorecard
Sri Lanka 
230/7 (50 overs)
v
 India
233/2 (41.5 overs)
Asanka Gurusinha 85 (122)
Venkatesh Prasad 2/32 (10 overs)
Mohammad Azharuddin 90* (121)
Champaka Ramanayake 1/52 (8.5 overs)
India won by 8 wickets
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Nigel Plews (Eng) and Cyril Mitchley (RSA)
Player of the match: Mohammad Azharuddin (Ind)
  • India won the toss and elected to field.

Statistics[]

Most runs[]

Player Matches Innings Runs Average SR HS 100 50 4s 6s
India Sachin Tendulkar 4 4 205 68.33 109.62 112* 1 0 30 2
India Navjot Singh Sidhu 4 4 197 98.50 80.40 84* 0 3 19 0
Pakistan Inzamam-ul-Haq 3 3 190 95.00 86.75 88 0 2 11 3
Sri Lanka Sanath Jayasuriya 4 4 134 33.50 87.01 51 0 1 20 1
India Manoj Prabhakar 4 4 122 40.66 64.89 60 0 2 12 0
Source: Cricinfo[2]

Most wickets[]

Player Matches Innings Wickets Overs Econ. Ave. BBI S/R 4WI 5WI
India Anil Kumble 4 4 7 36 3.86 19.85 2/23 20.5 0 0
India Venkatesh Prasad 3 3 6 28 4.00 18.66 3/37 19.5 0 0
Pakistan Aaqib Javed 2 2 5 19 2.52 9.60 5/19 30.0 0 1
Bangladesh Saiful Islam 3 3 5 22 4.54 20.00 4/36 19.2 1 0
Sri Lanka Muttiah Muralitharan 3 3 5 28.2 3.91 22.20 4/23 26.4 1 0
Source: Cricinfo[3]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Cricinfo Asia Cup page Cricinfo. Retrieved on 17 September 2021
  2. ^ "Pepsi Asia Cup, 1994/95 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
  3. ^ "Pepsi Asia Cup, 1994/95 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-12.

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