# 1988 Asia Cup

The 1988 Asia Cup (also known as the Wills Asia Cup) was the third Asia Cup tournament, held in Bangladesh between 26 October and 4 November 1988. Four teams took part in the tournament: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the host nation Bangladesh. The matches were the first-ever List A-classified being played in Bangladesh, then an Associate Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC), their opponents all being Full Members.
The 1988 Asia Cup was a round-robin tournament where each team played the other three once, and the top two teams qualifying for a place in the final. India and Sri Lanka qualified for the final in which India defeated Sri Lanka by 6 wickets to win its second Asia Cup.

## Squads

Squads :
| India | Sri Lanka | Pakistan | Bangladesh |
| Dilip Vengsarkar (c) | Arjuna Ranatunga (c) | Javed Miandad (c) | Gazi Ashraf (c) |
| Krishnamachari Srikkanth | Roshan Mahanama | Ramiz Raja | Azhar Hossain |
| Navjot Singh Sidhu | Brendon Kuruppu (wk) | Aamer Malik | Harunur Rashid |
| Mohinder Amarnath | Athula Samarasekera | Shoaib Mohammad | Athar Ali Khan |
| Mohammad Azharuddin | Aravinda de Silva | Saleem Malik | Minhajul Abedin |
| Kapil Dev | Ranjan Madugalle | Ijaz Ahmed | Aminul Islam |
| Kiran More (wk) | Duleep Mendis | Saleem Yousuf (wk) | Zahid Razzak |
| Sanjeev Sharma | Ravi Ratnayeke | Manzoor Elahi | Golam Faruq |
| Arshad Ayub | Graeme Labrooy | Wasim Akram | Jahangir Shah |
| Maninder Singh | Kapila Wijegunawardene | Abdul Qadir | Nasir Ahmed (wk) |
| Narendra Hirwani | Don Anurasiri | Tauseef Ahmed | Gholam Nousher |
| Ajay Sharma | Hashan Tillakaratne | Moin-ul-Atiq | Faruk Ahmed |
| Chandrakant Pandit | Ranjith Madurasinghe | Iqbal Qasim | Akram Khan |
| - | Champaka Ramanayake | Naved Anjum | Wahidul Gani |
| - | Uvais Karnain | Haafiz Shahid | - |

## Venues

| Dhaka | Chattogram |
| Bangabandhu National Stadium | MA Aziz Stadium |
| Capacity: 36,000 | Capacity: 20,000 |
| Matches: 5 | Matches: 2 |
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## Matches
### Group stage

| Teams | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | RR |
| Sri Lanka | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5.110 |
| India | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4.491 |
| Pakistan | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4.721 |
| Bangladesh | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.430 |
* 27 October 1988 Scorecard
| Pakistan 194/7 (44 overs) | v | Sri Lanka 195/5 (38.5 overs) |
| Ijaz Ahmed 54 (58) Graeme Labrooy 3/36 (8 overs) | | Roshan Mahanama 55 (92) Wasim Akram 2/34 (7.5 overs) |
* Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Ram Gupta (Ind) and V K Ramaswamy (Ind) Player of the match: Roshan Mahanama (SL)
* 27 October 1988 Scorecard
| Bangladesh 99/8 (45 overs) | v | India 100/1 (26 overs) |
| Minhajul Abedin 22 (67) Arshad Ayub 3/20 (9 overs) | | Navjot Sidhu 50* (71) Azhar Hossain 1/30 (7 overs) |
* India won by 9 wickets M. A. Aziz Stadium, Chittagong Umpires: KT Francis (SL) and Tariq Ata (Pak) Player of the match: Navjot Sidhu (Ind)
* 29 October 1988 Scorecard
| Pakistan 284/3 (45 overs) | v | Bangladesh 111/6 (45 overs) |
| Ijaz Ahmed 124* (87) Azhar Hossain 1/24 (4 overs) | | Athar Ali Khan 22 (52) Iqbal Qasim 3/13 (9 overs) |
* Pakistan won by 173 runs M. A. Aziz Stadium, Chittagong Umpires: Ram Gupta (Ind) and Selliah Ponnadurai (SL) Player of the match: Moin-ul-Atiq (Pak)
* 29 October 1988 Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 271/6 (45 overs) | v | India 254 (44 overs) |
| Aravinda de Silva 69 (63) Kapil Dev 2/39 (9 overs) | | Navjot Sidhu 50 (55) Kapila Wijegunawardene 4/49 (9 overs) |
* Sri Lanka won by 17 runs Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Saleem Badar (Pak) and Tariq Ata (Pak) Player of the match: Aravinda de Silva (SL)
* 31 October 1988 Scorecard
| Pakistan 142 (42.2 overs) | v | India 143/6 (40.4 overs) |
| Moin-ul-Atiq 38 (64) Arshad Ayub 5/21 (9 overs) | | Mohinder Amarnath 74* (122) Abdul Qadir 3/27 (9 overs) |
* India won by 4 wickets Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: KT Francis (SL) and Selliah Ponnadurai (SL) Player of the match: Arshad Ayub (Ind)
* 2 November 1988 Scorecard
| Bangladesh 118/8 (45 overs) | v | Sri Lanka 120/1 (30.5 overs) |
| Athar Ali Khan 30 (83) Ravi Ratnayeke 4/23 (8 overs) | | Brendon Kuruppu 58* (93) Azhar Hossain 1/20 (6.5 overs) |
* Sri Lanka won by 9 wickets Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: V K Ramaswamy (Ind) and Saleem Badar (Pak) Player of the match: Brendon Kuruppu (SL)

### Final

* 4 November 1988 Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 176 (43.2 overs) | v | India 180/4 (37.1 overs) |
| Duleep Mendis 36 (36) Kris Srikkanth 3/12 (3.2 overs) | | Navjot Sidhu 76 (87) Kapila Wijegunawardene 2/33 (9 overs) |
* India won by 6 wickets Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka Umpires: Saleem Badar (Pak) and Tariq Ata (Pak) Player of the match: Navjot Sidhu (Ind)

## Statistics
### Most runs

| Player | Matches | Innings | NO | Runs | Average | SR | HS | 100 | 50 | 0 |
| Ijaz Ahmed | 3 | 3 | 1 | 192 | 96.00 | 103.78 | 124* | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Navjot Sidhu | 4 | 4 | 1 | 179 | 59.66 | 77.82 | 76 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Moin-ul-Atiq | 2 | 2 | 0 | 143 | 71.50 | 79.00 | 105 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Athula Samarasekera | 4 | 4 | 1 | 140 | 46.66 | 75.67 | 66 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Aravinda de Silva | 4 | 3 | 0 | 135 | 45.00 | 107.14 | 69 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Source: Cricinfo |||||||||||

### Most wickets

| Player | Matches | Innings | Wickets | Overs | Ave. | Econ. | BBI | 4WI | 5WI |
| Arshad Ayub | 4 | 4 | 9 | 36.00 | 13.33 | 3.33 | 5/21 | 0 | 1 |
| Kapila Wijegunawardene | 4 | 4 | 8 | 32.00 | 16.50 | 4.12 | 4/49 | 1 | 0 |
| Ravi Ratnayeke | 4 | 4 | 7 | 34.00 | 18.85 | 3.88 | 4/23 | 1 | 0 |
| Kapil Dev | 4 | 4 | 6 | 28.2 | 16.50 | 3.49 | 2/16 | 0 | 0 |
| Abdul Qadir | 3 | 3 | 6 | 26.00 | 17.00 | 3.92 | 3/27 | 0 | 0 |
| Source: Cricinfo ||||||||||