1997 Asia Cup

1997 Asia Cup
Administrator(s)	Asian Cricket Council
Cricket format	One-Day International
Tournament format(s)	Round Robin and Knockout
Host(s)	Sri Lanka
Champions	Sri Lanka (2ndth title)
Participants	4
Matches played	7
Man of the Series	Arjuna Ranatunga
Most runs	Arjuna Ranatunga 272
Most wickets	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: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

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.

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

July 14 Scorecard	Sri Lanka  239 (49.5 overs)	v	Pakistan 224/9 (50 overs)	Sri Lanka won by 15 runs R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: SK Bansal (IND) & S Venkataraghavan (IND) Player of the match: Marvan Atapattu (SL)
	Marvan Atapattu 80 (113) Kabir Khan 2/49 (8 overs)		Saleem Malik 57 (79) Sajeewa de Silva 6/26 (6 overs)

July 16 Scorecard	Pakistan  315/5 (50 overs)	v	Bangladesh 210 (49.3 overs)	Pakistan won by 105 runs R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: SK Bansal (IND) & BC Cooray (SL) Player of the match: Saeed Anwar (PAK)
	Saeed Anwar 90 (94) Saiful Islam 1/45 (7 overs)		Athar Ali Khan 82 (125) Saqlain Mushtaq 5/38 (9.3 overs)

July 18 Scorecard	India  227/6 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 231/4 (44.4 overs)	Sri Lanka won by 6 wickets R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Mohammad Nazir (PAK) & Saleem Badar (PAK) Player of the match: Arjuna Ranatunga (SL)
	Mohammad Azharuddin 81* (103) Chaminda Vaas 2/35 (8 overs)		Arjuna Ranatunga 131* (152) Robin Singh 2/29 (4 overs)

July 20 Scorecard	Pakistan  30/5 (9 overs)	v	India	No result SSCG, Colombo Umpires: BC Cooray (SL) & Kandiah Francis (SL)
	Saleem Malik 10 (13) Venkatesh Prasad 4/17 (5 overs)
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.

July 21 Scorecard	Pakistan	v	India	Match abandoned without a ball bowled SSCG, Colombo Umpires: BC Cooray (SL) & Kandiah Francis (SL)

July 22 Scorecard	Sri Lanka  296/4 (46 overs)	v	Bangladesh 193/8 (46 overs)	Sri Lanka won by 103 runs SSCG, Colombo Umpires: Saleem Badar (PAK) & S Venkataraghavan (IND)
	Jayasuriya 108 (83) Minhajul Abedin 2-43 (9 overs)		Naimur Rahman 47 (85) Muralitharan 2-29 (10 overs)

July 24 Scorecard	Bangladesh	v	India	India won by 9 wickets SSCG, Colombo Umpires: Kandiah Francis (SL) & Mohammad Nazir (PAK)

Final

July 26 Scorecard	India 239/7 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka  240/2 (36.5 overs)	Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Mohammad Nazir (PAK) & Saleem Badar (PAK) Player of the match: MS Atapattu
	Mohammad Azharuddin 81 (102) Chaminda Vaas 2/32 (8 overs)		MS Atapattu 84 (101) Nilesh Kulkarni 1/48 (10 overs)

See also

• Asia Cup

References

• Cricket Archive: Pepsi Asia Cup 1997 http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Seasons/SL/1997_SL_Pepsi_Asia_Cup_1997.html
• CricInfo: Asia Cup in Sri Lanka, Jul 1997 http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1997-98/OD_TOURNEYS/ASIA/

External links

• Cricket archive tournament page