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.
| Administrator(s) | Asian Cricket Council |
|---|---|
| Cricket format | One Day International |
| Tournament format(s) | Round-robin and Knockout |
| Host(s) |  UAE |
| Champions |  India (4th title) |
| Runners-up |  Sri Lanka |
| Participants | 4 |
| Matches | 7 |
| Player of the series | Navjot Sidhu |
| Most runs | Sachin Tendulkar (205) |
| Most wickets | Anil Kumble (7) |
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[1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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- 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 |
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Arjuna Ranatunga 71 (72) Saiful Islam 4/36 (10 overs) |
Minhajul Abedin 26 (37) Muttiah Muralitharan 4/23 (8.2 overs) |
- Chamara Dunusinghe (SL), and Habibul Bashar and Hasibul Hossain (both Ban) made their debut in ODIs.
8 April 1995 Scorecard |
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Akram Khan 44 (82) Aamer Nazir 2/23 (7 overs) |
Ghulam Ali 38 (53) Athar Ali Khan 1/10 (2 overs) |
- Naimur Rahman (Ban) made his debut in ODIs.
9 April 1995 Scorecard |
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- Sachin Tendulkar (Ind) became the youngest player to reach 3,000 runs in ODIs.[2]
11 April 1995 Scorecard |
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Inzamam-ul-Haq 73 (96) Champaka Ramanayake 3/25 (10 overs) |
- Mahmood Hamid and Javed Qadeer (both Pak) made their debut in ODIs.
Final
14 April 1995 Scorecard |
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Asanka Gurusinha 85 (122) Venkatesh Prasad 2/32 (10 overs) |
- 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[3] | ||||||||||
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[4] | ||||||||||
See also
References
- Cricinfo Asia Cup page Cricinfo. Retrieved on 17 September 2021
- "On This Day in 1995: Sachin Tendulkar Became Youngest Cricketer to Score 3,000 ODI Runs - News18". News18.com. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- "Pepsi Asia Cup, 1994/95 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
- "Pepsi Asia Cup, 1994/95 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
- Cricket Archive: Pepsi Asia Cup 1994/95 http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Seasons/UAE/1994-95_UAE_Pepsi_Asia_Cup_1994-95.html
- CricInfo: Asia Cup, 1995 http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1994-95/OD_TOURNEYS/ASIA/
External links
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