# 1984 Asia Cup

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.
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

Squads :
| 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
### Group stage

| 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) | | Surinder Khanna 51* (69) |
* 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
### Most runs

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

### Most wickets

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