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1984 Asia Cup

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1984 Asia Cup
Asia Cup Logo
Administrator(s)Asian Cricket Council
Cricket formatOne Day International
Tournament format(s)Round-robin
Host(s) UAE
Champions India (1st title)
Runners-up Sri Lanka
Participants3
Matches3
Player of the seriesIndia Surinder Khanna
Most runsIndia Surinder Khanna (107)
Most wicketsIndia Ravi Shastri (4)
1986

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

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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

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Group stage

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

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Most runs

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

Most wickets

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

References

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  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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