1984 Asia Cup

1984 Asia Cup
Administrator(s)	Asian Cricket Council
Cricket format	One Day International
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin
Host(s)	UAE
Champions	India (1st title)
Runners-up	Sri Lanka
Participants	3
Matches	3
Player of the series	Surinder Khanna
Most runs	Surinder Khanna (107)
Most wickets	Ravi Shastri (4)
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The 1984 Asia Cup (also known as the Rothmans Asia Cup) was the first edition of the Asia Cup. It was held in Sharjah, UAE, which was the location of the newly formed Asian Cricket Council. The new tournament was held between April 6–13, in 1984 and three teams took part: India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium hosted its first One Day International (ODI) match.^[1]

The 1984 Asia Cup was a round-robin tournament where each team played the other once. India won both its matches, winning the inaugural Cup. Sri Lanka came in second while Pakistan lost both its matches.

Squads[edit]

Squads^[2]
India	Sri Lanka	Pakistan
Sunil Gavaskar (c)	Duleep Mendis (c)	Zaheer Abbas (c)
Surinder Khanna (wk)	Brendon Kuruppu (wk)	Mohsin Khan
Ghulam Parkar	Sidath Wettimuny	Saadat Ali
Dilip Vengsarkar	Roy Dias	Mudassar Nazar
Sandeep Patil	Ranjan Madugalle	Javed Miandad
Ravi Shastri	Arjuna Ranatunga	Saleem Malik
Kirti Azad	Aravinda de Silva	Abdul Qadir
Roger Binny	Uvais Karnain	Shahid Mahboob
Madan Lal	Ravi Ratnayeke	Sarfraz Nawaz
Manoj Prabhakar	Somachandra De Silva	Anil Dalpat (wk)
Chetan Sharma	Vinothen John	Rashid Khan
-	-	Qasim Umar
-	-	Azeem Hafeez

Matches[edit]

Group stage[edit]

Team	P	W	L	NRR	Points
India	2	2	0	+4.212	8
Sri Lanka	2	1	1	+3.059	4
Pakistan	2	0	2	+3.489	0

6 April 1984
Scorecard

Pakistan 187/9 (46 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 190/5 (43.3 overs)
Zaheer Abbas 47 (68) Arjuna Ranatunga 3/38 (10 overs)		Roy Dias 57 (95) Abdul Qadir 2/42 (9 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah, UAE
Umpires: Dickie Bird (Eng) and Swaroop Kishen (Ind)
Player of the match: Roy Dias (SL)

8 April 1984
Scorecard

Sri Lanka 96 (41 overs)	v	India 97/0 (21.4 overs)
Ranjan Madugalle 38 (76) Madan Lal 3/11 (8 overs)		Surinder Khanna 51* (69)

India won by 10 wickets
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah, UAE
Umpires: Dickie Bird (Eng) and Shakoor Rana (Pak)
Player of the match: Surinder Khanna (Ind)

13 April 1984
Scorecard

India 188/4 (46 overs)	v	Pakistan 134 (39.4 overs)
Surinder Khanna 56 (72) Shahid Mahboob 1/23 (10 overs)		Mohsin Khan 35 (65) Roger Binny 3/33 (9.4 overs)

India won by 54 runs
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah, UAE
Umpires: Dickie Bird (Eng) and Herbi Felsinger (SL)
Player of the match: Surinder Khanna (Ind)

Statistics[edit]

Most runs[edit]

Player	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	SR	HS	100	50	4s	6s
Surinder Khanna	2	2	107	107.00	75.88	56	0	2	9	2
Zaheer Abbas	2	2	74	37.00	65.48	47	0	0	3	2
Roy Dias	2	2	62	62.00	50.81	57*	0	1	1	0
Mohsin Khan	2	2	62	31.71	31.00	35	0	0	3	0
Ghulam Parkar	2	2	54	54.00	43.90	32*	0	0	5	0
Source: Cricinfo^[3]

Most wickets[edit]

Player	Matches	Innings	Wickets	Overs	Econ.	Ave.	BBI	S/R	4WI	5WI
Ravi Shastri	2	2	4	17	3.11	13.25	3/40	25.5	0	0
Madan Lal	2	2	3	14	2.28	10.66	3/11	28.0	0	0
Arjuna Ranatunga	2	1	3	10	3.80	12.66	3/38	20.0	0	0
Chetan Sharma	2	2	3	15	2.66	13.33	3/22	30.0	0	0
Roger Binny	2	2	3	16.4	3.48	19.33	3/33	33.3	0	0
Source: Cricinfo^[4]

References[edit]

^ "This day that year - Sharjah Cricket Stadium hosts its first international match". The National. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
^ Cricinfo Asia Cup page Cricinfo. Retrieved on 14 September 2021
^ "Rothmans Asia Cup, 1983/84 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-06.
^ "Rothmans Asia Cup, 1983/84 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-06.

External links[edit]

[1] "This day that year - Sharjah Cricket Stadium hosts its first international match". The National. Retrieved 6 April 2020.

[2] Cricinfo Asia Cup page Cricinfo. Retrieved on 14 September 2021

[3] "Rothmans Asia Cup, 1983/84 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-06.

[4] "Rothmans Asia Cup, 1983/84 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-06.

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