# 2012 Asia Cup

The 2012 Asia Cup (also called Micromax Asia Cup) was an international cricket tournament held in Bangladesh from 11 to 22 March 2012. Like the previous event, the tournament featured the four Test-playing nations from Asia: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. India entered the tournament as the defending 2010 Asia Cup Pakistan won the tournament by beating Bangladesh in the final by 2 runs.

## Background

China was interested to host the Asia Cup at Guangzhou but it was decided by the Asian Cricket Council that Bangladesh will host the event. It was the third time Bangladesh hosted the event after 1988 and 2000.
The event was supposed to be held between 1 and 11 March 2012, but was rescheduled to avoid conflicting with the ODI tri-series in Australia that also included Sri Lanka and India, which ended on 8 March. The tournament was played from 11 to 22 March.

## Venues

All the 7 matches were played at Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur.
| City | Venue | Capacity | Matches |
| Mirpur, Dhaka | Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium | 26,000 | 7 |

## Squads

| Bangladesh | India | Pakistan | Sri Lanka |
| Mushfiqur Rahim (c & wk) Mahmudullah (vc) Tamim Iqbal Imrul Kayes Nazimuddin Jahurul Islam (wk) Anamul Haque (wk) Shakib Al Hasan Nasir Hossain Elias Sunny Abdur Razzak Mashrafe Mortaza Shahadat Hossain Nazmul Hossain Shafiul Islam | MS Dhoni (c & wk) Virat Kohli (vc) Sachin Tendulkar Gautam Gambhir Suresh Raina Rohit Sharma Manoj Tiwary Yusuf Pathan Irfan Pathan Ravindra Jadeja Ravichandran Ashwin Rahul Sharma Praveen Kumar Vinay Kumar Ashok Dinda | Misbah-ul-Haq (c) Mohammad Hafeez Nasir Jamshed Younis Khan Asad Shafiq Umar Akmal Azhar Ali Shahid Afridi Hammad Azam Sarfraz Ahmed (wk) Saeed Ajmal Abdur Rehman Umar Gul Wahab Riaz Aizaz Cheema | Mahela Jayawardene (c) Tillakaratne Dilshan Upul Tharanga Kumar Sangakkara (wk) Dinesh Chandimal (wk) Lahiru Thirimanne Chamara Kapugedera Thisara Perera Sachithra Senanayake Seekkuge Prasanna Farveez Maharoof Nuwan Kulasekara Lasith Malinga Suranga Lakmal Shaminda Eranga Angelo Mathews |
Notes
* ↑ Withdrawn on 14 March 2012 due to injury. Replaced with Shaminda Eranga.

## Points table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | BP | Pts | NRR | For | Against |
| 1 | Pakistan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0.444 | 780/139.5 | 759/147.5 |
| 2 | Bangladesh | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.022 | 746/136.3 | 762/140 |
| 3 | India | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.377 | 923/147.5 | 876/149.2 |
| 4 | Sri Lanka | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −0.887 | 653/140 | 705/127 |
Points system:
* Win: 4 points
* Loss: no points
* Tie/No result: 2 points
* Bonus point: If a team wins, with a run rate ≥ 1.25 times that of the opposing team, that team gets 1 bonus point. (A team's run rate is number of runs scored divided by number of overs faced, except that a team is treated as having faced the full 50 overs if it loses all of its wickets)
If two or more teams have the same number of points, the right to play in the final is determined as follows:
* The team having the higher number of wins.
* If two or more teams have same number of wins, the team with more wins against the other teams who have equal number of points and wins. (Head to head)
* If still equal, the team with the higher number of bonus points.
* If still equal, the team with the greater net run rate.

## Matches
### Group stage matches
#### 1st Match

All times local (UTC+06:00)
* 11 March 2012 14:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| Pakistan 262/8 (50 overs) | v | Bangladesh 241 (48.1 overs) |
| Mohammad Hafeez 89 (126) Shahadat Hossain 3/53 (8 overs) | | Shakib Al Hasan 64 (66) Umar Gul 3/58 (9.1 overs) |
* Pakistan won by 21 runs Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur Thana Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Paul Reiffel (Aus) Player of the match: Mohammad Hafeez (Pak)
* Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field.

#### 2nd Match

* 13 March 2012 14:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| India 304/3 (50 overs) | v | Sri Lanka 254 (45.1 overs) |
| Virat Kohli 108 (120) Farveez Maharoof 2/57 (10 overs) | | Mahela Jayawardene 78 (59) Irfan Pathan 4/32 (8.1 overs) |
* India won by 50 runs Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur Thana Umpires: Steve Davis (Aus) and Ian Gould (Eng) Player of the match: Virat Kohli (Ind)
* Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.

#### 3rd Match

* 15 March 2012 14:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 188 (45.4 overs) | v | Pakistan 189/4 (39.5 overs) |
| Kumar Sangakkara 71 (92) Aizaz Cheema 4/43 (9 overs) | | Umar Akmal 77 (72) Suranga Lakmal 2/37 (8 overs) |
* Pakistan won by 6 wickets Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur Thana Umpires: Steve Davis (Aus) and Paul Reiffel (Aus) Player of the match: Aizaz Cheema (Pak)
* Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
* Pakistan earned a bonus point.

#### 4th Match

* 16 March 2012 14:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| India 289/5 (50 overs) | v | Bangladesh 293/5 (49.2 overs) |
| Sachin Tendulkar 114 (147) Mashrafe Mortaza 2/44 (10 overs) | | Tamim Iqbal 70 (99) Praveen Kumar 3/56 (10 overs) |
* Bangladesh won by 5 wickets Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur Thana Umpires: Ian Gould (Eng) and Paul Reiffel (Aus) Player of the match: Shakib Al Hasan (Ban)
* Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field.
* Sachin Tendulkar (Ind) became the first batsman to score 100 centuries in international cricket.

#### 5th Match

* 18 March 2012 14:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| Pakistan 329/6 (50 overs) | v | India 330/4 (47.5 overs) |
| Nasir Jamshed 112 (104) Ashok Dinda 2/47 (8 overs) | | Virat Kohli 183 (148) Mohammad Hafeez 1/42 (9 overs) |
* India won by 6 wickets Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur Thana Umpires: Steve Davis (Aus) and Ian Gould (Eng) Player of the match: Virat Kohli (Ind)
* Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
* Virat Kohli's score was the highest individual innings for a batsman in the Asia Cup.
* Virat Kohli's innings was the highest individual innings for a batsman against Pakistan in an ODI.
* Nasir Jamshed and Mohammad Hafeez's opening partnership of 224 is a record for Pakistan versus India.
* Sachin Tendulkar, Yusuf Pathan and Praveen Kumar (Ind) played in their last ODI match

#### 6th Match

* 20 March 2012 14:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| Sri Lanka 232 (49.5 overs) | v | Bangladesh 212/5 (37.1 overs) |
| Chamara Kapugedera 62 (92) Nazmul Hossain 3/32 (8 overs) | | Tamim Iqbal 59 (57) Nuwan Kulasekara 2/30 (6 overs) |
* Bangladesh won by 5 wickets (D/L method) Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur Thana Umpires: Steve Davis (Aus) and Paul Reiffel (Aus) Player of the match: Shakib Al Hasan (Ban)
* Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field.
* Rain reduced Bangladesh's innings to 40 overs, target revised to 212 by Duckworth-Lewis method.
* Bangladesh qualified for the finals for the first time due to head to head record against India and This is the first time that Sri Lanka failed to eligible to Asian cup finals since 1984

### Final

* 22 March 2012 14:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| Pakistan 236/9 (50 overs) | v | Bangladesh 234/8 (50 overs) |
| Sarfraz Ahmed 46* (52) Abdur Razzak 2/26 (10 overs) | | Shakib Al Hasan 68 (72) Aizaz Cheema 3/46 (7 overs) |
* Pakistan won by 2 runs Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur Thana Umpires: Steve Davis (Aus) and Ian Gould (Eng) Player of the match: Shahid Afridi (Pak)
* Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field.
* Pakistan won the Asia Cup for the second time (first in 2000).
* Tamim Iqbal became the first Bangladesh player to score four consecutive ODI half-centuries.

## Records and statistics
### Batting

| Player | Team | Matches | Runs | Average | SR | HS | 100s | 50s |
| Virat Kohli | India | 3 | 357 | 119 | 102 | 183 | 2 | 1 |
| Tamim Iqbal | Bangladesh | 4 | 253 | 63.25 | 80.831 | 70 | 0 | 4 |
| Mohammad Hafeez | Pakistan | 4 | 245 | 61.25 | 67.867 | 105 | 1 | 1 |
| Shakib Al Hasan | Bangladesh | 4 | 237 | 59.25 | 110.233 | 68 | 0 | 3 |
| Nasir Jamshed | Pakistan | 4 | 193 | 48.25 | 96.02 | 112 | 1 | 1 |
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### Bowling

| Player | Team | Matches | Wickets | Runs | Average | SR | BBI | ECon. | 4W |
| Umar Gul | Pakistan | 4 | 9 | 208 | 23.111 | 24 | 3/58 | 5.778 | 0 |
| Saeed Ajmal | Pakistan | 4 | 8 | 161 | 20.125 | 28.25 | 3/27 | 4.274 | 0 |
| Aizaz Cheema | Pakistan | 4 | 8 | 196 | 24.5 | 24.75 | 4/43 | 5.939 | 1 |
| Abdur Razzak | Bangladesh | 4 | 6 | 154 | 25.667 | 40 | 2/26 | 3.85 | 0 |
| Mashrafe Mortaza | Bangladesh | 4 | 6 | 177 | 29.5 | 39.833 | 2/44 | 4.444 | 0 |
| Source:ESPNCricinfo ||||||||||