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{{Short description|Cricket tournament in Sri Lanka}}
{{Infobox cricket tournament
| name = 1997 Asia Cup
| image = Asia cup logo 1997.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption =
| administrator = [[Asian Cricket Council]]
| cricket format = [[One Day International]]
| tournament format = [[Round-robin tournament|Round-robin]] and [[Single-elimination tournament|Knockout]]
| host = {{cr|SRI}}
| champions = {{cr|SRI}}
| runner up = {{cr|IND}}
| count = 2
| participants = 4
| matches = 7
| attendance =
| player of the series = {{flagicon|SRI}} [[Arjuna Ranatunga]]
| most runs = {{flagicon|SRI}} [[Arjuna Ranatunga]] (272)
| most wickets = {{flagicon|IND}} [[Venkatesh Prasad]] (7)
| previous_year = 1995
| previous_tournament = 1995 Asia Cup
| next_year = 2000
| next_tournament = 2000 Asia Cup
}}

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 national cricket team|India]], [[Pakistan national cricket team|Pakistan]], [[Sri Lanka national cricket team|Sri Lanka]] and [[Bangladesh national cricket team|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==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:auto; margin:auto"
|-
! colspan=4 | Squads<ref>[https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/pepsi-asia-cup-1997-61008 Cricinfo Asia Cup page] Cricinfo. Retrieved on 17 September 2021</ref>
|-
! {{cr|IND}} (1)
! {{cr|SRI}} (4)
! {{cr|PAK}} (8)
! {{cr|BAN}} (16)
|-
| [[Sachin Tendulkar]] ([[Captain (cricket)|c]]) || [[Arjuna Ranatunga]] ([[Captain (cricket)|c]]) || [[Ramiz Raja]] ([[Captain (cricket)|c]]) || [[Akram Khan (cricketer)|Akram Khan]] ([[Captain (cricket)|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 (cricketer, born 1968)|Aminul Islam]]
|-
| [[Robin Singh (cricketer)|Robin Singh]] || [[Romesh Kaluwitharana]] ([[Wicket-keeper|wk]]) || [[Moin Khan]] ([[Wicket-keeper|wk]]) || [[Enamul Haque (cricketer, born 1966)|Enamul Haque]]
|-
| [[Ajay Jadeja]] || [[Ruwan Kalpage]] || [[Shahid Afridi]] || [[Minhajul Abedin]]
|-
| [[Saba Karim]] ([[Wicket-keeper|wk]]) || [[Kumar Dharmasena]] || [[Saqlain Mushtaq]] || [[Khaled Mashud]] ([[Wicket-keeper|wk]])
|-
| [[Anil Kumble]] || [[Chaminda Vaas]] || [[Aaqib Javed]] || [[Hasibul Hossain]]
|-
| [[Abey Kuruvilla]] || [[Muttiah Muralitharan]] || [[Arshad Khan (Pakistani cricketer)|Arshad Khan]] || [[Saiful Islam (cricketer, born 1969)|Saiful Islam]]
|-
| [[Venkatesh Prasad]] || [[Sajeewa de Silva]] || [[Kabir Khan (cricketer)|Kabir Khan]] || [[Sheikh Salahuddin (cricketer)|Sheikh Salahuddin]]
|-
| [[Noel David]] || [[Lanka de Silva]] || - || [[Mafizur Rahman]]
|-
| [[Nilesh Kulkarni]] || [[Upul Chandana]] || - || [[Zakir Hasan (cricketer, born 1972)|Zakir Hasan]]
|-
| - || [[Dulip Liyanage]] || - || -
|}

==Matches==
===Group stage===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!!!Pld!!W!!L!!T!!NR!!Pts!![[Net run rate|NRR]]
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|{{cr|SRI}}||3||3||0||0||0||6||1.035
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|{{cr|IND}}||3||1||1||0||1||3||1.405
|- style="background:#fcc;"
|{{cr|PAK}}||3||1||1||0||1||3||0.940
|- style="background:#fcc;"
|{{cr|BAN}}||3||0||3||0||0||0||-2.895
|}

{{Limited overs international
| date = 14 July 1997
| team1 = {{cr-rt|SRI}}
| score1 = 239 (49.5 overs)
| score2 = 224/9 (50 overs)
| team2 = {{cr|PAK}}
| runs1 = [[Marvan Atapattu]] 80 (113)
| wickets1 = [[Kabir Khan (cricketer)|Kabir Khan]] 2/49 (8 overs)
| runs2 = [[Saleem Malik]] 57 (79)
| wickets2 = [[Sanath Jayasuriya]] 4/49 (10 overs)
| result = {{cr|SRI}} won by 15 runs
| toss = Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8532/scorecard/65692/sri-lanka-vs-pakistan-1st-match/ Scorecard]
| venue = [[R Premadasa Stadium]], [[Colombo]]
| umpires = [[Shyam Bansal]] (Ind) and [[S Venkataraghavan]] (Ind)
| motm = [[Marvan Atapattu]] (SL)
}}
----
{{Limited overs international
| date = 16 July 1997
| team1 = {{cr-rt|PAK}}
| score1 = 319/5 (50 overs)
| score2 = 210 (49.3 overs)
| team2 = {{cr|BAN}}
| runs1 = [[Saeed Anwar]] 90 (94)
| wickets1 = [[Saiful Islam (cricketer, born 1969)|Saiful Islam]] 1/45 (7 overs)
| runs2 = [[Athar Ali Khan]] 82 (125)
| wickets2 = [[Saqlain Mushtaq]] 5/38 (9.3 overs)
| result = {{cr|PAK}} won by 105 runs
| toss = Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
| notes = [[Sheikh Salahuddin (cricketer)|Sheikh Salahuddin]] (Ban) made his ODI debut.
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8532/scorecard/65693/bangladesh-vs-pakistan-2nd-match/ Scorecard]
| venue = [[R Premadasa Stadium]], [[Colombo]]
| umpires = [[Shyam Bansal]] (Ind) and [[B. C. Cooray]] (SL)
| motm = [[Saeed Anwar]] (Pak)
}}
----
{{Limited overs international
| date = 18 July 1997
| team1 = {{cr-rt|IND}}
| score1 = 227/6 (50 overs)
| score2 = 231/4 (44.4 overs)
| team2 = {{cr|SRI}}
| runs1 = [[Mohammad Azharuddin]] 81[[not out|*]] (103)
| wickets1 = [[Chaminda Vaas]] 2/35 (8 overs)
| runs2 = [[Arjuna Ranatunga]] 131[[not out|*]] (152)
| wickets2 = [[Robin Singh (cricketer, born 1963)|Robin Singh]] 2/29 (4 overs)
| result = {{cr|SRI}} won by 6 wickets
| toss = Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8532/scorecard/65694/sri-lanka-vs-india-3rd-match/ Scorecard]
| venue = [[R Premadasa Stadium]], [[Colombo]]
| umpires = [[Mohammad Nazir]] (Pak) and [[Saleem Badar]] (Pak)
| motm = [[Arjuna Ranatunga]] (SL)
}}
----
{{Limited overs international
| date = 20 July 1997
| team1 = {{cr-rt|PAK}}
| score1 = 30/5 (9 overs)
| score2 =
| team2 = {{cr|IND}}
| runs1 = [[Saleem Malik]] 10 (13)
| wickets1 = [[Venkatesh Prasad]] 4/17 (5 overs)
| runs2 =
| wickets2 =
| result = No result
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8532/scorecard/65695/india-vs-pakistan-4th-match/ Scorecard]
| toss = India won the toss and elected to field.
| venue = [[Sinhalese Sports Club Ground|SSCG]], [[Colombo]]
| umpires = [[B. C. Cooray]] (SL) and [[K. T. Francis]] (SL)
| motm =
| rain = Rain and bad light after 5 overs stopped the game, and Umpires reduced the overs per side to 33. <br /> When the game resumed, it had to be called off again due to bad light.
}}
----
{{Limited overs international
| date = 21 July 1997
| team1 = {{cr-rt|PAK}}
| score1 =
| score2 =
| team2 = {{cr|IND}}
| runs1 =
| wickets1 =
| runs2 =
| wickets2 =
| result = Match abandoned without a ball bowled
| report = [https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/pepsi-asia-cup-1997-61008/india-vs-pakistan-4th-match-66416/full-scorecard Scorecard]
| venue = [[Sinhalese Sports Club Ground|SSCG]], [[Colombo]]
| umpires = [[B. C. Cooray]] (SL) and [[K. T. Francis]] (SL)
| motm =
}}
----
{{Limited overs international
| date = 22 July 1997
| team1 = {{cr-rt|SRI}}
| score1 = 296/4 (46 overs)
| score2 = 193/8 (46 overs)
| team2 = {{cr|BAN}}
| runs1 = [[Sanath Jayasuriya]] 108 (83)
| wickets1 = [[Minhajul Abedin]] 2-43 (9 overs)
| runs2 = [[Naimur Rahman]] 47 (85)
| wickets2 = [[Muttiah Muralitharan|Muralitharan]] 2-29 (10 overs)
| toss = Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field.
| notes = [[Mafizur Rahman]] (Ban) made his ODI debut.
| result = Sri Lanka won by 103 runs
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8532/scorecard/65696/sri-lanka-vs-bangladesh-5th-match/ Scorecard]
| venue = [[Sinhalese Sports Club Ground|SSCG]], [[Colombo]]
| umpires = [[Saleem Badar]] (Pak) and [[S Venkataraghavan]] (Ind)
| motm = [[Sanath Jayasuriya]] (SL)
}}
----
{{Limited overs international
| date = 24 July 1997
| team1 = {{cr-rt|BAN}}
| score1 = 130/8 (43 overs)
| score2 = 132/1 (15 overs)
| team2 = {{cr|IND}}
| runs1 = [[Athar Ali Khan]] 33 (69)
| wickets1 =[[Robin Singh (cricketer, born 1963)|Robin Singh]] 3/13 (9 overs)
| runs2 = [[Sourav Ganguly]] 73 (52)
| wickets2 = [[Enamul Haque (cricketer, born 1966)|Enamul Haque]] 1/34 (3 overs)
| result = India won by 9 wickets
| toss = India won the toss and elected to field.
| notes = [[Zakir Hasan (cricketer, born 1972)|Zakir Hasan]] (Ban) made his ODI debut.
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8532/scorecard/65697/bangladesh-vs-india-6th-match/ Scorecard]
| venue = [[Sinhalese Sports Club Ground|SSCG]], [[Colombo]]
| umpires = [[K. T. Francis]] (SL) and [[Mohammad Nazir]] (Pak)
| motm = [[Sourav Ganguly]] (Ind)
}}

===Final===
{{Limited overs international
| date = 26 July 1997
| team1 = {{cr-rt|IND}}
| score1 = 239/7 (50 overs)
| score2 = 240/2 (36.5 overs)
| team2 = {{cr|SRI}}
| runs1 = [[Mohammad Azharuddin]] 81 (102)
| wickets1 = [[Chaminda Vaas]] 2/32 (8 overs)
| runs2 = [[MS Atapattu]] 84 (101)
| wickets2 = [[Nilesh Kulkarni]] 1/48 (10 overs)
| result = Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets
| toss = India won the toss and elected to bat.
| notes = [[Nilesh Kulkarni]] (Ind) made his ODI debut.
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8532/scorecard/65698/sri-lanka-vs-india-final/ Scorecard]
| venue = [[R. Premadasa Stadium]], [[Colombo]]
| umpires = [[Mohammad Nazir]] (Pak) and [[Saleem Badar]] (Pak)
| motm = [[MS Atapattu]] (SL)
}}

== Statistics ==

=== Most runs ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
!Player
!Matches
!Innings
!Runs
![[Batting average (cricket)|Average]]
!SR
!HS
!100
!50
!4s
!6s
|-
| style="text-align:left" |{{flagicon|SL}} [[Arjuna Ranatunga]]
|4
|4
|'''272'''
|136.00
|88.02
|131*
|1
|2
|29
|3
|-
| style="text-align:left" |{{flagicon|SL}} [[Marvan Atapattu]]
|4
|4
|'''255'''
|85.00
|73.91
|84*
|0
|3
|18
|1
|-
| style="text-align:left" |{{flagicon|SL}} [[Sanath Jayasuriya]]
|4
|4
|'''204'''
|51.00
|115.25
|108
|1
|1
|23
|6
|-
| style="text-align:left" |{{flagicon|IND}} [[Mohammad Azharuddin]]
|4
|3
|'''185'''
|185.00
|82.22
|81*
|0
|2
|8
|4
|-
| style="text-align:left" |{{flagicon|BAN}} [[Athar Ali Khan]]
|3
|3
|'''157'''
|52.33
|62.30
|82
|0
|1
|17
|2
|-
! colspan="11" |Source: ''Cricinfo''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pepsi Asia Cup, 1997 Cricket Team Records & Stats {{!}} ESPNcricinfo.com|url=https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/batting/most_runs_career.html?id=749&type=tournament|access-date=2021-11-06|website=Cricinfo}}</ref>
|}

=== Most wickets ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
!Player
!Matches
!Innings
!Wickets
!Overs
!Econ.
!Ave.
!BBI
!S/R
!4WI
!5WI
|-
| style="text-align:left" |{{flagicon|IND}} [[Venkatesh Prasad]]
|4
|4
|'''7'''
|24
|6.07
|17.00
|4/17
|20.5
|1
|0
|-
| style="text-align:left" |{{flagicon|PAK}} [[Saqlain Mushtaq]]
|3
|2
|'''6'''
|19.3
|6.53
|12.66
|5/38
|19.5
|0
|1
|-
| style="text-align:left" |{{flagicon|SL}} [[Sanath Jayasuriya]]
|4
|3
|'''6'''
|30
|6.27
|24.50
|4/49
|30.0
|1
|0
|-
| style="text-align:left" |{{flagicon|IND}} [[Robin Singh (cricketer)|Robin Singh]]
|4
|3
|'''5'''
|16
|6.10
|13.60
|3/13
|19.2
|0
|0
|-
| style="text-align:left" |{{flagicon|SL}} [[Chaminda Vaas]]
|3
|3
|'''5'''
|22
|7.57
|19.40
|2/32
|26.4
|0
|0
|-
! colspan="11" |Source: ''Cricinfo''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pepsi Asia Cup, 1997 Cricket Team Records & Stats {{!}} ESPNcricinfo.com|url=https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/bowling/most_wickets_career.html?id=749&type=tournament|access-date=2021-11-06|website=Cricinfo}}</ref>
|}

==See also==
* [[Asia Cup]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

* ESPN Cricinfo: Asia Cup in Sri Lanka, Jul 1997 http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/series/61008.html

==External links==
* [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Seasons/SL/1997_SL_Pepsi_Asia_Cup_1997.html Cricket archive tournament page]
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