1997 Asia Cup

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1997 Asia Cup
Administrator(s)Asian Cricket Council
Cricket formatOne Day International
Tournament format(s)Round-robin and Knockout
Host(s) Sri Lanka
Champions Sri Lanka (2nd title)
Runners-up India
Participants4
Matches7
Player of the seriesSri Lanka Arjuna Ranatunga
Most runsSri Lanka Arjuna Ranatunga (272)
Most wicketsIndia Venkatesh Prasad (7)
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The 1997 Asia Cup (also known as the Pepsi Asia Cup 1997), was the sixth Asia Cup tournament, and the second to be held in Sri Lanka. The tournament took place between July 14–26, 1997. Four teams took part in the tournament: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

The 1997 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 and Sri Lanka qualified for the final where Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets to win its second Asia Cup and ending India's three consecutive championship run.

Squads[]

Squads[1]
 India  Sri Lanka  Pakistan  Bangladesh
Sachin Tendulkar (c) Arjuna Ranatunga (c) Ramiz Raja (c) Akram Khan (c)
Sourav Ganguly Sanath Jayasuriya Saeed Anwar Athar Ali Khan
Navjot Singh Sidhu Marvan Atapattu Aamer Sohail Naimur Rahman
Rahul Dravid Aravinda de Silva Inzamam-ul-Haq Habibul Bashar
Mohammad Azharuddin Roshan Mahanama Saleem Malik Aminul Islam
Robin Singh Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk) Moin Khan (wk) Enamul Haque
Ajay Jadeja Ruwan Kalpage Shahid Afridi Minhajul Abedin
Saba Karim (wk) Kumar Dharmasena Saqlain Mushtaq Khaled Mashud (wk)
Anil Kumble Chaminda Vaas Aaqib Javed Hasibul Hossain
Abey Kuruvilla Muttiah Muralitharan Arshad Khan Saiful Islam
Venkatesh Prasad Sajeewa de Silva Kabir Khan Sheikh Salahuddin
Noel David Lanka de Silva - Mafizur Rahman
Nilesh Kulkarni Upul Chandana - Zakir Hasan
- Dulip Liyanage - -

Matches[]

Group stage[]

Pld W L T NR Pts NRR
 Sri Lanka 3 3 0 0 0 6 1.035
 India 3 1 1 0 1 3 1.405
 Pakistan 3 1 1 0 1 3 0.940
 Bangladesh 3 0 3 0 0 0 -2.895
14 July 1997
Scorecard
Sri Lanka 
239 (49.5 overs)
v
 Pakistan
224/9 (50 overs)
Marvan Atapattu 80 (113)
Kabir Khan 2/49 (8 overs)
Saleem Malik 57 (79)
Sajeewa de Silva 6/26 (6 overs)
 Sri Lanka won by 15 runs
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Umpires: Shyam Bansal (Ind) and S Venkataraghavan (Ind)
Player of the match: Marvan Atapattu (SL)
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
16 July 1997
Scorecard
Pakistan 
319/5 (50 overs)
v
 Bangladesh
210 (49.3 overs)
Saeed Anwar 90 (94)
Saiful Islam 1/45 (7 overs)
Athar Ali Khan 82 (125)
Saqlain Mushtaq 5/38 (9.3 overs)
 Pakistan won by 105 runs
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Umpires: Shyam Bansal (Ind) and B. C. Cooray (SL)
Player of the match: Saeed Anwar (Pak)
  • Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Sheikh Salahuddin (Ban) made his ODI debut.
18 July 1997
Scorecard
India 
227/6 (50 overs)
v
 Sri Lanka
231/4 (44.4 overs)
Mohammad Azharuddin 81* (103)
Chaminda Vaas 2/35 (8 overs)
Arjuna Ranatunga 131* (152)
Robin Singh 2/29 (4 overs)
 Sri Lanka won by 6 wickets
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Umpires: Mohammad Nazir (Pak) and Saleem Badar (Pak)
Player of the match: Arjuna Ranatunga (SL)
  • Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
20 July 1997
Scorecard
Pakistan 
30/5 (9 overs)
v
Saleem Malik 10 (13)
Venkatesh Prasad 4/17 (5 overs)
No result
SSCG, Colombo
Umpires: B. C. Cooray (SL) and K. T. Francis (SL)
  • India won the toss and elected to field.
  • Rain and bad light after 5 overs stopped the game, and Umpires reduced the overs per side to 33.
    When the game resumed, it had to be called off again due to bad light.
21 July 1997
Scorecard
v
Match abandoned without a ball bowled
SSCG, Colombo
Umpires: B. C. Cooray (SL) and K. T. Francis (SL)
22 July 1997
Scorecard
Sri Lanka 
296/4 (46 overs)
v
 Bangladesh
193/8 (46 overs)
Sanath Jayasuriya 108 (83)
Minhajul Abedin 2-43 (9 overs)
Naimur Rahman 47 (85)
Muralitharan 2-29 (10 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 103 runs
SSCG, Colombo
Umpires: Saleem Badar (Pak) and S Venkataraghavan (Ind)
Player of the match: Sanath Jayasuriya (SL)
  • Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field.
  • Mafizur Rahman (Ban) made his ODI debut.
24 July 1997
Scorecard
Bangladesh 
130/8 (43 overs)
v
 India
132/1 (15 overs)
Athar Ali Khan 33 (69)
Robin Singh 3/13 (9 overs)
Sourav Ganguly 73 (52)
Enamul Haque 1/34 (3 overs)
India won by 9 wickets
SSCG, Colombo
Umpires: K. T. Francis (SL) and Mohammad Nazir (Pak)
Player of the match: Sourav Ganguly (Ind)
  • India won the toss and elected to field.
  • Zakir Hasan (Ban) made his ODI debut.

Final[]

26 July 1997
Scorecard
India 
239/7 (50 overs)
v
 Sri Lanka
240/2 (36.5 overs)
Mohammad Azharuddin 81 (102)
Chaminda Vaas 2/32 (8 overs)
MS Atapattu 84 (101)
Nilesh Kulkarni 1/48 (10 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Umpires: Mohammad Nazir (Pak) and Saleem Badar (Pak)
Player of the match: MS Atapattu (SL)
  • India won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Nilesh Kulkarni (Ind) made his ODI debut.

Statistics[]

Most runs[]

Player Matches Innings Runs Average SR HS 100 50 4s 6s
Sri Lanka Arjuna Ranatunga 4 4 272 136.00 88.02 131* 1 2 29 3
Sri Lanka Marvan Atapattu 4 4 255 85.00 73.91 84* 0 3 18 1
Sri Lanka Sanath Jayasuriya 4 4 204 51.00 115.25 108 1 1 23 6
India Mohammad Azharuddin 4 3 185 185.00 82.22 81* 0 2 8 4
Bangladesh Athar Ali Khan 3 3 157 52.33 62.30 82 0 1 17 2
Source: Cricinfo[2]

Most wickets[]

Player Matches Innings Wickets Overs Econ. Ave. BBI S/R 4WI 5WI
India Venkatesh Prasad 4 4 7 24 6.07 17.00 4/17 20.5 1 0
Pakistan Saqlain Mushtaq 3 2 6 19.3 6.53 12.66 5/38 19.5 0 1
Sri Lanka Sanath Jayasuriya 4 3 6 30 6.27 24.50 4/49 30.0 1 0
India Robin Singh 4 3 5 16 6.10 13.60 3/13 19.2 0 0
Sri Lanka Chaminda Vaas 3 3 5 22 7.57 19.40 2/32 26.4 0 0
Source: Cricinfo[3]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Cricinfo Asia Cup page Cricinfo. Retrieved on 17 September 2021
  2. ^ "Pepsi Asia Cup, 1997 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-06.
  3. ^ "Pepsi Asia Cup, 1997 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-06.

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