Asia Cup - 1988

The third edition of Asia Cup was known as Wills Asia Cup. The matches held in Bangladesh between October 26 and November 4, 1988. Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan participated in the tournament. The tournament was round-robin method tournament. Each team played the other once and top two teams qualifying for final. India and Sri Lanka qualified for the final and India won the Wills Asia Cup 1988. It was their second Asia Cup.
Captains of the teams
Pakistan - Javed Miandad
Bangladesh - Gazi Ashraf
India - D B Vengsarkar
Sri Lanka - A Ranatunga

Match summary
27 October, 1988; First match: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka
The match was held in National Stadium, Dhaka. The match was reduced 44 overs. Sri Lanka won the toss and select to field. Pakistan got 194 for 7 wickets with Ijaz Ahmed’s half century. (Saleem Yousuf 31, Saleem Malik 30, Javed Miandad 25 retired) Sri Lanka’s bowling was excellent. Labrooy take three wickets and Ratnayeke and Wijegunawardene got 2 wickets each. (Labrooy 3/36, Ratnayeke 2/27, Wijegunawardene 2/29)

Sri Lankan opener R S Mahanama make a clear victory with his 55 runs. P A de Silva got 48 and D S B P Kuruppu was 35. Sri Lanka make clear victory on 38.5 overs for 5 wickets loss. Wasim Akram got 2 wickets.

Match umpires: R B Gupta and V K Ramaswamy
Man of the match : R S Mahanama

27 October, 1988; Second match: India vs Bangladesh
The 45 overs match was held on Chittagong Stadium. India won the toss and send Bangladesh to bat first. Bangladesh openers failed to help the middle batsman. They decayed by the Arshad Ayub’s excellent bowling. The top scored batsmen are Minhajul Abedin (22 from 67 balls) and Athar Ali Khan (16 from 34 balls). The Indian side, Arshad Ayub got 3 wickets (3/20). Mahinder Singh (1/9) and Amarnath (1/8) are excellent bowling effort.

N S Sindhu’s unbeaten 50 help a easy won for India on 26 overs. K Srikkanth 24 catch Athar bowl Azhar and M Amarnath 19 are the other batsmen.

Match umpires: KT Francis and Tariq Ata
Man of the match: NS Sidhu

29 October, 1988; Third match: Pakistan vs Bangladesh
The match held on Chittagong Stadium. In the match Pakistan won by 173 runs. Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat. The 45 overs match, Pakistan end the innings on 284 for 3 wickets loss. Moin ul Atiq 105 and Ijaz Ahmed 124 were help the innings. Bangladesh started their innings with big losses. Iqbal Qasim (3/13) stopped runs for Bangladesh. Abdul Qadir (2/27) and Shoaib Mohammad (1/21) are made a good win for Pakistan. The top score was 22 by Athar Ali Khan.

Match umpires: RB Gupta and S Ponnadurai
Man of the match: Moin-ul-Atiq

29 October, 1988; Fourth match: India vs Sri Lanka
The match was reduced 45 overs. The match was held on National Stadium, Dhaka. India won the toss and to elected to field. Sri Lanka entered 271 runs with PA de Silva 69 and MAR Samarasekera 66. Kapil Dev took 2 wickets. India failed to face the all overs. They were all out on 44 overs with 254 overs. Wijegunawardene (4/49) was the good bowling effort for Sri Lanka.

Match umpires: Saleem Badar and Tariq Ata
Man of the match: PA de Silva

31 October, 1988; Fifth match: India vs Pakistan
National Stadium, Dhaka was the venue of the match. India won the toss and selected to field. In the limited 45 overs match, Pakistan was stopped by Arshad Ayub. They were entered 142 but all out on 42.2 overs. Arshad Ayub (5/21), Kapil Dev (2/16), Maninder Singh (2/25). India chased the score on 40.4 overs with M Amarnath’s unbeaten 74. Abdul Quadir (3/27), Wasim Akram (2/29). India won by 4 wickets.

Match umpires: KT Francis and S Ponnadurai
Man of the match: Arshad Ayub

2 November, 1988; Sixth match: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka
The match was won by Sri Lanka. The match was held on National Stadium, Dhaka. In the 45 overs match, Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field. Bangladesh got 118 runs for 8 wickets loss. Ratnayeke 4/23 was excellent and parted Ramanayake 1/6 also. Sri Lanka crossed the target on 30.5 overs for 1 wicket loss. Azhar Hossain won the wicket. Sri Lanka won by 9 wickets.

Match umpires: V K Ramaswamy and Saleem Badar
Man of the match: DSBP Kuruppu

Point table
(Team – play – win – loss – points)
Sri Lanka – 3 - 3 - 0 - 6
India 3 – 2- 1 – 4
Pakistan 3 – 1 – 2 – 2
Bangladesh 3 – 0 – 3 - 0

4 November, 1988; Final: Sri Lanka vs India

In the final was India’s greatest cricket style. The toss got India send Sri Lanka to bat first. Sri Lanka got 176 from 43.2 overs. India’s target was 177 from 45 overs. Srikkanth 3/12 helped India to a great dismissal of Sri Lanka. N S Sindhu 76 (87) and captain D B Vengsarkar 50 (81) were made India an easy win on 37.1 overs with 6 wickets. Wijegunawardene got 2 wickets.

Match umpires: Saleem Badar and Tariq Ata
Man of the match: N S Sindhu

Man of the series: N S Sindhu