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{{short description|Cricket tournament}}
{{use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox cricket tournament
| name = 1992–93 SAARC Quadrangular
| image =
| caption =
| fromdate = 24 November
| todate = 18 December 2020
| administrator = [[South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation|SAARC]] cricket
| cricket format = 50 overs
| tournament format = [[Round-robin tournament|Round-robin]]
| champions =
| count =
| participants = 4
| matches =
| player of the series =
| most runs = [[Navjot Sidhu]] (139)
| most wickets = [[Ajay Sharma]] (8)
| previous_year =
| previous_tournament =
| next_year = [[1994-95 SAARC Quadrangular|1994-95]]
| next_tournament =
}}
The '''1992–93 SAARC Quadrangular''' was the inaugural [[SAARC Quadrangular]] cricket tournament. It started in [[Dhaka]], [[Bangladesh]] in December 1992 amidst great enthusiasm and excitement.

==Background==
4 teams, the 'A' teams from neighbouring [[India]], [[Pakistan]] and [[Sri Lanka]], and the full national team of the host country participated in the event. Due to the volatile political situation arising in the sub-continent, the tournament had to be abandoned at the League stage. Thus, there was no winners of the tournament.

==Scores in brief==

{| class="wikitable"
! Date
! Match
! Scorecard
! Result
|-
|| Dec. 3 || Bangladesh v Sri Lanka|| Sri Lanka 85 ([[Saiful Islam (cricketer, born 1969)|Saiful Islam]]3/23, [[Jahangir Alam Talukdar]] 3/19) Bangladesh 87/3 ([[Nurul Abedin]] 38*, [[Minhajul Abedin]] 32, Labroy 3/35)|| Bangladesh wins by 7 wickets
|-
|| 4 Dec.|| India V Pakistan || Pakistan 195( [[Basit Ali]] 42, [[Aamer Hanif]] 37, [[Rajesh Chauhan]] 3/25, [[Ajay Sharma]] 3/28) India 199/1 ([[Navjot Singh Sidhu]] 95*, [[Vinod Kambli]] 46*) India wins by 9 wickets||
|-
|| 5 Dec. || Bangladesh V Pakistan|| Bangladesh 159 ([[Akram Khan (cricketer)|Akram Khan]] 38, Tanvir Mehedi 5/23) Pakistan 160/5 (Shaeed Anwar 65, Shaeed Javed 55) || Pakistan wins by 5 wickets
|-
|6 Dec. ||India V Sri Lanka||India216/3 (S. Bhave 81, [[Vinod Kambli]] 62*)Sri Lanka 149 (Duminda Perrera 53, [[Ajay Sharma]] 5/30) ||India wins by 68 runs
|-
|9 Dec. ||Pakistan V Sri Lanka||Sri Lanka 126 ( [[Aamer Hanif]] 4/36) Pakistan 126/1 ([[Basit Ali]] 69*) ||Pakistan wins by 9 wickets
|-
|10 Dec||India vs Bangladesh ||India 30/0 (8 overs) Bangladesh (Did not bat)||The match & the Tournament abandoned
|}

India came to the tournament with the strongest team, and they were the favourites to lift the trophy. The didn't get the chance to do that, but some of the players were rewarded for their brilliant performances. Both [[Vinod Kambli]] and off-spinner [[Rajesh Chauhan]] made their test debut against England at Eden Garden, Calcutta, in Jan 1993. [[Navjot Singh Sidhu]] was recalled to open the batting, and he remained a regular member of the Indian national team till the end of the decade. [[Maninder Singh (cricketer)|Maninder Singh]], the captain of the 'A' team, was recalled briefly, for the one-off test Match against [[Zimbabwe cricket team|Zimbabwe]] in March 1993. [[Ajay Sharma]], the highest wicket taker of the tournament, earned himself a recall to the Indian ODI team. In contrast, the future Indian captain [[Sourav Ganguly]] played in all the games, but never got the chance to bat. His only over in the tournament, against the Pakistanis, went for 13 runs.

Pakistan didn't send their strongest available team. Instead, they gave opportunity to some youngsters. The openers, [[Basit Ali]] and Shaheed Anwar, impressed with their aggressive batting. Their seamers did well, but they didn't have the quality spinner required for slow turning pitches. The Lankan team was very weak, and they were badly beaten in all the games. Still, The pacer [[Graeme Labrooy]], bowled with plenty of heart.

For the hosts, their best moment came on the opening day, with a crushing defeat of the Lankans. The medium pacers [[Saiful Islam (cricketer, born 1969)|Saiful Islam]], [[Jahangir Alam Talukdar]] Dulu & [[Gholam Nousher]] Prince bowled the opposition out for a mere 85. The Abedin brothers, [[Nurul Abedin|Nobel]] & [[Minhajul Abedin|Nannu]], then did the rest. The seamers bowled well again against Pakistan, putting them under pressure initially, but at the end the hosts didn't have enough runs on the board.

==Statistics==
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto" width="80%"
|-
!colspan=6|Top batsmen of the tournament
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Name
!| Matches
!| Runs
!| Average
!| Highest Score
!| 50
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Vinod Kambli]] (Ind)
|| 2
|| 108
|| -{{efn|He batted twice and remained unbeaten on each occasion.}}
||62*
|| 1
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Navjot Singh Sidhu]] (Ind)
|| 2
|| 131
|| 131.00
|| 95*
||1
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;" | Surendara Bhave (Ind)
|| 2
||123
||61.50
||81
||1
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Basit Ali]] (Pak)
|| 3
|| 111
|| 55.50
||69*
|| 1
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;" | Shaheed Anwar (Pak)
|| 3
|| 105
|| 35.00
|| 65
|| 1
|-
!colspan=6|Top bowlers of the tournament
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Name
!| Matches
!| Runs
!| Wickets
!| Average
!| Best
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Ajay Sharma]] (Ind)
||2
||58
||8
||7.25
||5/30
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;" | Tanvir Mehedi (Pak)
||3
||72
||6
||12.00
||5/23
|- style="text-align:right;"
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Aamer Hanif]] (Pak)
||3
||100
||5
||20.00
||4/36
|}

==An eventual success==
Though the 1st SAARC Quadrangular ended abruptly, the idea lived on. And in Dec. 1994, the 2nd event took place successfully. India, led by [[Pravin Amre]] won the trophy, beating Bangladesh in the final. Pakistan won the 3rd event, (Feb. 1997) beating arch rivals India in a rain affected final. Bangladesh lost all their 3 games in 1997, but it was by no means a disgraceful performance, as the oppositions in this tournament were far superior to anything before. In fact, this tournament provided a very useful preparation for the team which went to win the [[1997 ICC Trophy|ICC Trophy]] in April. Soon, Bangladesh became a full member the ICC, & with Bangladesh regularly hosting full ODI matches the need for the SAARC tournament became obsolete. Nevertheless, there is still considerable amount of 'A' grade cricket played among the South Asian nations.

<ref>Hasan Babli. "Antorjartik Crickete Bangladesh". Khelar Bhuban Prakashani, November, 1994.</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation|Quadrangular, 1992]]
[[Category:1992 in cricket]]
[[Category:1992 in Bangladeshi sport]]
[[Category:1993 in cricket]]
[[Category:1993 in Bangladeshi sport]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi cricket in the 20th century]]
[[Category:International cricket competitions from 1991–92 to 1994]]

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