1990–91 Asia Cup

The 1990–91 Asia Cup was the fourth Asia Cup tournament, and was held in India between 25 December 1990, and 4 January 1991. Three teams took part in the tournament: India, Sri Lanka and Asian leading associate member Bangladesh. Pakistan had pulled out of the tournament due to strained political relations with India.

1990–91 Asia Cup

Dates	25 December 1990 – 4 January 1991
Administrator(s)	Asian Cricket Council
Cricket format	One Day International
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin
Host(s)	India
Champions	India (3rd title)
Runners-up	Sri Lanka
Participants	3
Matches	4
Player of the series	Not awarded
Most runs	Arjuna Ranatunga (166)
Most wickets	Kapil Dev (9)
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The 1990–91 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 and Sri Lanka qualified for the final in which India beat Sri Lanka by 7 wickets to win its second consecutive (and third in total) Asia Cup.

Squads

Squads[1]
India (2)	Sri Lanka (7)	Bangladesh (15)
Mohammad Azharuddin (c)	Arjuna Ranatunga (c)	Minhajul Abedin (c)
Ravi Shastri	Hashan Tillakaratne (wk)	Azhar Hossain(vc)
Navjot Singh Sidhu	Charith Senanayake	Nurul Abedin
Sanjay Manjrekar	Asanka Gurusinha	Faruk Ahmed
Sachin Tendulkar	Aravinda de Silva	Athar Ali Khan
Kapil Dev	Roshan Mahanama	Akram Khan
Manoj Prabhakar	Sanath Jayasuriya	Enamul Haque
Kiran More (wk)	Rumesh Ratnayake	Aminul Islam
Venkatapathy Raju	Champaka Ramanayake	Gholam Nousher
Saradindu Mukherjee	Don Anurasiri	Nasir Ahmed (wk)
Atul Wassan	Jayananda Warnaweera	Jahangir Alam Talukdar
Woorkeri Raman	Graeme Labrooy	Saiful Islam
-	Pramodya Wickramasinghe	-

Venues

Kolkata	Cuttack	Chandigarh
Eden Gardens	Barabati Stadium	Sector 16 Stadium
Capacity: 67,000	Capacity: 45,000	Capacity: 30,000
Chandigarh Cuttack Kolkata 1990–91 Asia Cup (India)

Matches

Group stage

Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	RR
Sri Lanka	2	2	0	0	0	4	4.908
India	2	1	1	0	0	2	4.222
Bangladesh	2	0	2	0	0	0	3.663

25 December 1990 Scorecard

Bangladesh  170/6 (50 overs)	v	India 171/1 (36.5 overs)
Faruk Ahmed 57 (126) Kapil Dev 2/17 (8 overs)		Navjot Sidhu 104 (109) Athar Ali Khan 1/23 (6 overs)

India won by 9 wickets Sector 16 Stadium, Chandigarh Umpires: V. K. Ramaswamy (Ind) and Piloo Reporter (Ind) Player of the match: Navjot Sidhu (Ind)

• Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.
• Saradindu Mukherjee (Ind) made his ODI debut.

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28 December 1990 Scorecard

Sri Lanka  214 (49.2 overs)	v	India 178 (45.5 overs)
Arjuna Ranatunga 53 (105) Atul Wassan 3/28 (10 overs)		Mohammad Azharuddin 40 (61) Rumesh Ratnayake 3/24 (6.5 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 36 runs Barabati Stadium, Cuttack Umpires: Subrata Banerjee (Ind) and V. K. Ramaswamy (Ind) Player of the match: Arjuna Ranatunga (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.

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31 December 1990 Scorecard

Sri Lanka  249/4 (45 overs)	v	Bangladesh 178/9 (45 overs)
Aravinda de Silva 89 (60) Azhar Hossain 1/33 (9 overs)		Athar Ali Khan 78* (95) Sanath Jayasuriya 3/39 (9 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 71 runs Eden Gardens, Kolkata Umpires: Subrata Banerjee (Ind) and Piloo Reporter (Ind) Player of the match: Athar Ali Khan (Ban)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
• Saiful Islam (Ban) and Pramodya Wickramasinghe (SL) made their ODI debuts.
• Fog delayed start of play. The match was subsequently reduced to 45 overs-a-side.^[2]
• Bangladesh surpassed their previous team aggregate of 177. Athar Ali Khan's 78 was the highest individual score for a Bangladesh player.^[2]

Final

4 January 1991 Scorecard

Sri Lanka  204/9 (45 overs)	v	India 205/3 (42.1 overs)
Arjuna Ranatunga 49 (57) Kapil Dev 4/31 (9 overs)		Sanjay Manjrekar 75* (95) Arjuna Ranatunga 1/12 (2 overs)

India won by 7 wickets Eden Gardens, Calcutta Umpires: V. K. Ramaswamy (Ind) and Piloo Reporter (Ind) Player of the match: Mohammad Azharuddin (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• Kapil Dev became the second bowler for India to take a hat-trick in ODIs.^[3]

Statistics

Most runs

Player	Matches	Innings	NO	Runs	Average	SR	HS	100	50
Arjuna Ranatunga	3	3	1	166	83.00	73.45	64*	0	2
Navjot Sidhu	3	3	1	144	72.00	81.45	104*	1	0
Aravinda de Silva	3	3	0	126	42.00	120.00	89	0	1
Athar Ali Khan	2	2	1	122	122.00	71.34	78*	0	1
Sanjay Manjrekar	3	3	2	112	112.00	65.88	75*	0	1
Source: Cricinfo[4]

Most wickets

Player	Matches	Innings	Wickets	Overs	Ave.	Econ.	BBI	4WI	5WI
Kapil Dev	3	3	9	26.2	10.66	3.64	4/31	1	0
Atul Wassan	3	3	5	27.00	20.80	3.85	3/28	0	0
Rumesh Ratnayake	2	2	4	14.5	14.50	3.91	3/24	0	0
Sanath Jayasuriya	3	3	3	20.00	30.33	4.55	2/39	0	0
Source: Cricinfo[5]

See also

• Asia Cup