2012 Asia Cup

2012 Micromax Asia Cup
Dates11 March – 22 March
Administrator(s)Asian Cricket Council
Cricket formatOne Day International
Tournament format(s)Round-robin, Knockout
Host(s) Bangladesh
Champions Pakistan (2nd title)
Runners-up Bangladesh
Participants4
Matches7
Player of the seriesBangladesh Shakib Al Hasan
Most runsIndia Virat Kohli (357)
Most wicketsPakistan Umar Gul (9)
2010
2014

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
2012 Asia Cup is located in Bangladesh
Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium
Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium
Venue in Bangladesh

Match Officials

Umpires from neutral countries:

Umpires from participating countries:

Match Referee:

Squads

 Bangladesh  India  Pakistan  Sri Lanka

Notes

  1. ^ Withdrawn on 14 March 2012 due to injury.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
Source:

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)

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.
  • This was Sachin Tendulkar's 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
Source:ESPNCricinfo

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

Most Man of the match

Player No. of Awards
India Virat Kohli 2
Bangladesh Shakib Al Hasan
Pakistan Mohammad Hafeez 1
Pakistan Aizaz Cheema
Pakistan Shahid Afridi Man of the match in Final

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