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2000 Asia Cup (as called Pepsi Asia Cup) was the seventh edition of the Asia Cup for cricket, which was held in Bangladesh between 29 May – 7 June 2000.[1] India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh took part in the tournament. Pakistan won their first ever Asia cup beating Sri Lanka by 39 runs in the final. All the games were played at Dhaka's Bangabandhu National Stadium. Yousuf Youhana was declared the Man of the Series.

Tournament structure

Each side played each other once in the group stages. The top 2 teams based on points at the end of the group stages met each other in a one-off final. Each win yielded 2 points while a tie/no result yielded 1 point. The tournament was the first edition of Asia Cup to feature coloured player clothing and to be played with a white ball.

Venue

7 matches were played at Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka.

City Venue Capacity Matches
Dhaka, Dhaka Division Bangabandhu National Stadium
36,000 7
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Squads

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Aminul Islam (c) Sourav Ganguly (c) Moin Khan (c) & (wk) Sanath Jayasuriya (c)
Javed Omar Rahul Dravid Inzamam-ul-Haq Marvan Atapattu
Shahriar Hossain Sachin Tendulkar Yousuf Youhana Mahela Jayawardene
Mohammad Rafique Mohammad Azharuddin Saeed Anwar Aravinda De Silva
Akram Khan Ajay Jadeja Imran Nazir Russel Arnold
Habibul Bashar Hemang Badani Shahid Afridi Tillakaratne Dilshan
Mohammad Manjural Islam Robin Singh Abdul Razzaq Indika De Saram
Khaled Mahmud Ajit Agarkar Shoaib Malik Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk)
Khaled Mashud (wk) Anil Kumble Wasim Akram Upul Chandana
Naimur Rahman Thiru Kumaran Mohammad Wasim Chaminda Vaas
Enamul Haque Amit Bhandari Mohammad Akram Nuwan Zoysa
Hasibul Hossain Nayan Mongia (wk) Azhar Mahmood Muttiah Muralitharan
Shafiuddin Ahmed Nikhil Chopra Shabbir Ahmed Sajeewa de Silva
Mushfiqur Rahman Sunil Joshi Arshad Khan Kaushalya Weeraratne

Group stage table

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Match summary

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Final

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Statistics

Most runs

Player Matches Innings Runs Average SR HS 100 50 4s 6s
Template:Flagicon Yousuf Youhana 4 4 295 147.50 73.75 100* 1 2 23 4
Template:Flagicon Marvan Atapattu 4 4 245 81.66 72.27 100 1 1 18 1
Template:Flagicon Sanath Jayasuriya 4 4 183 45.75 87.55 105 1 0 23 0
Template:Flagicon Inzamam-ul-Haq 4 4 175 87.50 109.37 75* 0 2 16 3
Template:Flagicon Sourav Ganguly 3 3 156 78.00 92.85 135* 1 0 9 7
Source: Cricinfo[2]

Most wickets

Player Matches Innings Wickets Overs Econ. Ave. BBI S/R 4WI 5WI
Template:Flagicon Abdul Razzaq 3 3 8 19.2 3.82 9.25 4/29 14.5 1 0
Template:Flagicon Azhar Mahmood 4 4 5 30 3.53 21.20 3/24 36.0 0 0
Template:Flagicon Ajit Agarkar 3 3 5 30 4.63 27.80 2/47 36.0 0 0
Template:Flagicon Arshad Khan 4 4 5 38 3.68 28.00 2/42 45.6 0 0
Template:Flagicon Wasim Akram 3 3 4 20 4.05 20.25 2/38 30.0 0 0
Source: Cricinfo[3]

References

  1. Asia Cup: No problem in selecting the probables, Ganesh, AC(3 May 2000). Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  2. Asia Cup, 2000 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-06.
  3. Asia Cup, 2000 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-06.

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