# 1990–91 Asia Cup

The 1990–91 Asia Cup was the fourth Asia Cup tournament, and was held in India between 25 December 1990, and 4 January 1991. Three teams took part in the tournament: India, Sri Lanka and Asian leading associate member Bangladesh. Pakistan had pulled out of the tournament due to strained political relations with India.
The 1990–91 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 in which India beat Sri Lanka by 7 wickets to win its second consecutive (and third in total) Asia Cup.

## Squads

Squads :
| India (2) | Sri Lanka (7) | Bangladesh (15) |
| Mohammad Azharuddin (c) | Arjuna Ranatunga (c) | Minhajul Abedin (c) |
| Ravi Shastri | Hashan Tillakaratne (wk) | Azhar Hossain(vc) |
| Navjot Singh Sidhu | Charith Senanayake | Nurul Abedin |
| Sanjay Manjrekar | Asanka Gurusinha | Faruk Ahmed |
| Sachin Tendulkar | Aravinda de Silva | Athar Ali Khan |
| Kapil Dev | Roshan Mahanama | Akram Khan |
| Manoj Prabhakar | Sanath Jayasuriya | Enamul Haque |
| Kiran More (wk) | Rumesh Ratnayake | Aminul Islam |
| Venkatapathy Raju | Champaka Ramanayake | Gholam Nousher |
| Saradindu Mukherjee | Don Anurasiri | Nasir Ahmed (wk) |
| Atul Wassan | Jayananda Warnaweera | Jahangir Alam Talukdar |
| Woorkeri Raman | Graeme Labrooy | Saiful Islam |
| - | Pramodya Wickramasinghe | - |

## Venues

| Kolkata | Cuttack | Chandigarh |
| Eden Gardens | Barabati Stadium | Sector 16 Stadium |
| Capacity: 67,000 | Capacity: 45,000 | Capacity: 30,000 |
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## Matches
### Group stage

| Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | RR |
| Sri Lanka | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4.908 |
| India | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4.222 |
| Bangladesh | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.663 |
* 25 December 1990 Scorecard
| Bangladesh 170/6 (50 overs) | v | India 171/1 (36.5 overs) |
| Faruk Ahmed 57 (126) Kapil Dev 2/17 (8 overs) | | Navjot Sidhu 104 (109) Athar Ali Khan 1/23 (6 overs) |
* India won by 9 wickets Sector 16 Stadium, Chandigarh Umpires: V. K. Ramaswamy (Ind) and Piloo Reporter (Ind) Player of the match: Navjot Sidhu (Ind)
* Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.
* Saradindu Mukherjee (Ind) made his ODI debut.
* 28 December 1990 Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 214 (49.2 overs) | v | India 178 (45.5 overs) |
| Arjuna Ranatunga 53 (105) Atul Wassan 3/28 (10 overs) | | Mohammad Azharuddin 40 (61) Rumesh Ratnayake 3/24 (6.5 overs) |
* Sri Lanka won by 36 runs Barabati Stadium, Cuttack Umpires: Subrata Banerjee (Ind) and V. K. Ramaswamy (Ind) Player of the match: Arjuna Ranatunga (SL)
* Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
* 31 December 1990 Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 249/4 (45 overs) | v | Bangladesh 178/9 (45 overs) |
| Aravinda de Silva 89 (60) Azhar Hossain 1/33 (9 overs) | | Athar Ali Khan 78* (95) Sanath Jayasuriya 3/39 (9 overs) |
* Sri Lanka won by 71 runs Eden Gardens, Kolkata Umpires: Subrata Banerjee (Ind) and Piloo Reporter (Ind) Player of the match: Athar Ali Khan (Ban)
* Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
* Saiful Islam (Ban) and Pramodya Wickramasinghe (SL) made their ODI debuts.
* Fog delayed start of play. The match was subsequently reduced to 45 overs-a-side.
* Bangladesh surpassed their previous team aggregate of 177. Athar Ali Khan's 78 was the highest individual score for a Bangladesh player.

### Final

* 4 January 1991 Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 204/9 (45 overs) | v | India 205/3 (42.1 overs) |
| Arjuna Ranatunga 49 (57) Kapil Dev 4/31 (9 overs) | | Sanjay Manjrekar 75* (95) Arjuna Ranatunga 1/12 (2 overs) |
* India won by 7 wickets Eden Gardens, Calcutta Umpires: V. K. Ramaswamy (Ind) and Piloo Reporter (Ind) Player of the match: Mohammad Azharuddin (Ind)
* India won the toss and elected to field.
* Kapil Dev became the second bowler for India to take a hat-trick in ODIs.

## Statistics
### Most runs

| Player | Matches | Innings | NO | Runs | Average | SR | HS | 100 | 50 |
| Arjuna Ranatunga | 3 | 3 | 1 | 166 | 83.00 | 73.45 | 64* | 0 | 2 |
| Navjot Sidhu | 3 | 3 | 1 | 144 | 72.00 | 81.45 | 104* | 1 | 0 |
| Aravinda de Silva | 3 | 3 | 0 | 126 | 42.00 | 120.00 | 89 | 0 | 1 |
| Athar Ali Khan | 2 | 2 | 1 | 122 | 122.00 | 71.34 | 78* | 0 | 1 |
| Sanjay Manjrekar | 3 | 3 | 2 | 112 | 112.00 | 65.88 | 75* | 0 | 1 |
| Source: Cricinfo ||||||||||

### Most wickets

| Player | Matches | Innings | Wickets | Overs | Ave. | Econ. | BBI | 4WI | 5WI |
| Kapil Dev | 3 | 3 | 9 | 26.2 | 10.66 | 3.64 | 4/31 | 1 | 0 |
| Atul Wassan | 3 | 3 | 5 | 27.00 | 20.80 | 3.85 | 3/28 | 0 | 0 |
| Rumesh Ratnayake | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14.5 | 14.50 | 3.91 | 3/24 | 0 | 0 |
| Sanath Jayasuriya | 3 | 3 | 3 | 20.00 | 30.33 | 4.55 | 2/39 | 0 | 0 |
| Source: Cricinfo ||||||||||