# 1995 Asia Cup

The 1995 Asia Cup (also known as the Pepsi Asia Cup), was the fifth Asia Cup tournament, and the second to be held in Sharjah, UAE. The tournament took place between April 5–14, 1995. Four teams took part in the tournament: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
The 1995 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, Pakistan and Sri Lanka all had four points at the end of the round-robin stage, but India and Sri Lanka qualified for the final on the basis of better run-rates. India beat Sri Lanka by 8 wickets to win its third consecutive (and fourth in total) Asia Cup.

## Squads

Squads :
| India | Sri Lanka | Pakistan | Bangladesh |
| Mohammad Azharuddin (c) | Arjuna Ranatunga (c) | Moin Khan (c) & (wk) | Akram Khan (c) |
| Manoj Prabhakar | Asanka Gurusinha | Aamer Sohail | Athar Ali Khan |
| Sachin Tendulkar | Sanath Jayasuriya | Saeed Anwar | Javed Omar |
| Navjot Singh Sidhu | Roshan Mahanama | Ghulam Ali | Sajjad Ahmed |
| Sanjay Manjrekar | Aravinda de Silva | Inzamam-ul-Haq | Aminul Islam |
| Ajay Jadeja | Hashan Tillakaratne | Asif Mujtaba | Minhajul Abedin |
| Nayan Mongia (wk) | Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk) | Wasim Akram | Enamul Haque |
| Anil Kumble | Kumar Dharmasena | Zafar Iqbal | Mohammad Rafique |
| Javagal Srinath | Chaminda Vaas | Naeem Ashraf | Khaled Mashud (wk) |
| Venkatesh Prasad | Muttiah Muralitharan | Nadeem Khan | Saiful Islam |
| Aashish Kapoor | Janak Gamage | Aaqib Javed | Anisur Rahman |
| Vinod Kambli | Ruwan Kalpage | Aamer Nazir | Habibul Bashar |
| Prashant Vaidya | Chamara Dunusinghe | Arshad Khan | Hasibul Hossain |
| Utpal Chatterjee | Champaka Ramanayake | Mahmood Hamid | Naimur Rahman |

## Matches
### Group stage

| Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | RR |
| India | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4.856 |
| Sri Lanka | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4.701 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4.596 |
| Bangladesh | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.933 |
* 5 April 1995 Scorecard
| Bangladesh 163 (44.4 overs) | v | India 164/1 (27.5 overs) |
| Aminul Islam 30 (53) Anil Kumble 2/23 (8 overs) | | Navjot Sidhu 56* (51) Mohammad Rafique 1/15 (5 overs) |
* India won by 9 wickets Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah Umpires: Nigel Plews (Eng) and Ian Robinson (Zim) Player of the match: Manoj Prabhakar (Ind)
* Sajjad Ahmed, Khaled Mashud, Javed Omar, Mohammad Rafique and Anisur Rahman (all Ban), and Utpal Chatterjee (Ind) made their debut in ODIs.
* 6 April 1995 Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 233 (49.4 overs) | v | Bangladesh 126 (44.2 overs) |
| Arjuna Ranatunga 71 (72) Saiful Islam 4/36 (10 overs) | | Minhajul Abedin 26 (37) Muttiah Muralitharan 4/23 (8.2 overs) |
* Sri Lanka won by 107 runs Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah Umpires: Cyril Mitchley (SA) and Nigel Plews (Eng) Player of the match: Arjuna Ranatunga (SL)
* Chamara Dunusinghe (SL), and Habibul Bashar and Hasibul Hossain (both Ban) made their debut in ODIs.
* 7 April 1995 Scorecard
| Pakistan 266/9 (50 overs) | v | India 169 (42.4 overs) |
| Inzamam-ul-Haq 88 (100) Anil Kumble 2/29 (8 overs) | | Navjot Sidhu 54 (108) Aaqib Javed 5/19 (9 overs) |
* Pakistan won by 97 runs Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah Umpires: Cyril Mitchley (SA) and Ian Robinson (Zim) Player of the match: Aaqib Javed (Pak)
* Naeem Ashraf and Zafar Iqbal (both Pak) made their debut in ODIs.
* 8 April 1995 Scorecard
| Bangladesh 151/8 (50 overs) | v | Pakistan 152/4 (29.4 overs) |
| Akram Khan 44 (82) Aamer Nazir 2/23 (7 overs) | | Ghulam Ali 38 (53) Athar Ali Khan 1/10 (2 overs) |
* Pakistan won by 6 wickets Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah Umpires: Nigel Plews (Eng) and Ian Robinson (Zim) Player of the match: Wasim Akram (Pak)
* Naimur Rahman (Ban) made his debut in ODIs.
* 9 April 1995 Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 202/9 (50 overs) | v | India 206/2 (33.1 overs) |
| Hashan Tillakaratne 48 (78) Venkatesh Prasad 3/37 (10 overs) | | Sachin Tendulkar 112 (107) Sanath Jayasuriya 2/42 (10 overs) |
* India won by 8 wickets Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah Umpires: Cyril Mitchley (SA) and Nigel Plews (Eng) Player of the match: Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)
* Sachin Tendulkar (Ind) became the youngest player to reach 3,000 runs in ODIs.
* 11 April 1995 Scorecard
| Pakistan 178/9 (50 overs) | v | Sri Lanka 180/5 (30.5 overs) |
| Inzamam-ul-Haq 73 (96) Champaka Ramanayake 3/25 (10 overs) | | Roshan Mahanama 48 (74) Aamer Sohail 2/21 (5 overs) |
* Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah Umpires: Cyril Mitchley (SA) and Ian Robinson (Zim) Player of the match: Sanath Jayasuriya (SL)
* Mahmood Hamid and Javed Qadeer (both Pak) made their debut in ODIs.

## Final

* 14 April 1995 Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 230/7 (50 overs) | v | India 233/2 (41.5 overs) |
| Asanka Gurusinha 85 (122) Venkatesh Prasad 2/32 (10 overs) | | Mohammad Azharuddin 90* (121) Champaka Ramanayake 1/52 (8.5 overs) |
* India won by 8 wickets Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah Umpires: Nigel Plews (Eng) and Cyril Mitchley (SA) Player of the match: Mohammad Azharuddin (Ind)
* India won the toss and elected to field.

## Statistics
### Most runs

| Player | Matches | Innings | Runs | Average | SR | HS | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 4 | 4 | 205 | 68.33 | 109.62 | 112* | 1 | 0 | 30 | 2 |
| Navjot Singh Sidhu | 4 | 4 | 197 | 98.50 | 80.40 | 84* | 0 | 3 | 19 | 0 |
| Inzamam-ul-Haq | 3 | 3 | 190 | 95.00 | 86.75 | 88 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 3 |
| Sanath Jayasuriya | 4 | 4 | 134 | 33.50 | 87.01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 1 |
| Manoj Prabhakar | 4 | 4 | 122 | 40.66 | 64.89 | 60 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 0 |
| Source: Cricinfo |||||||||||

### Most wickets

| Player | Matches | Innings | Wickets | Overs | Econ. | Ave. | BBI | S/R | 4WI | 5WI |
| Anil Kumble | 4 | 4 | 7 | 36 | 3.86 | 19.85 | 2/23 | 20.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Venkatesh Prasad | 3 | 3 | 6 | 28 | 4.00 | 18.66 | 3/37 | 19.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Aaqib Javed | 2 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 2.52 | 9.60 | 5/19 | 30.0 | 0 | 1 |
| Saiful Islam | 3 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 4.54 | 20.00 | 4/36 | 19.2 | 1 | 0 |
| Muttiah Muralitharan | 3 | 3 | 5 | 28.2 | 3.91 | 22.20 | 4/23 | 26.4 | 1 | 0 |
| Source: Cricinfo |||||||||||