1984 Asia Cup

1984 Asia Cup

Administrator(s)	Asian Cricket Council
Cricket format	One Day International
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin
Host(s)	UAE
Champions	India (1st title)
Runners-up	Sri Lanka
Participants	3
Matches played	3
Player of the series	Surinder Khanna
Most runs	Surinder Khanna (107)
Most wickets	Ravi Shastri (4)

The 1984 Asia Cup (also known as the Rothmans Asia Cup) was the first edition of the Asia Cup. It was held in Sharjah, UAE, which was the location of the newly formed Asian Cricket Council. The new tournament was held between April 6–13, in 1984 and three teams took part: India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium hosted its first One Day International (ODI) match.

The 1984 Asia Cup was a round-robin tournament where each team played the other once. India won both its matches, winning the inaugural Cup. Sri Lanka came in second while Pakistan lost both its matches.

Squads

Squads
India (2)	Sri Lanka (7)	Pakistan (8)
Sunil Gavaskar (c)	Duleep Mendis (c)	Zaheer Abbas (c)
Surinder Khanna (wk)	Brendon Kuruppu (wk)	Mohsin Khan
Ghulam Parkar	Sidath Wettimuny	Saadat Ali
Dilip Vengsarkar	Roy Dias	Mudassar Nazar
Sandeep Patil	Ranjan Madugalle	Javed Miandad
Ravi Shastri	Arjuna Ranatunga	Saleem Malik
Kirti Azad	Aravinda de Silva	Abdul Qadir
Roger Binny	Uvais Karnain	Shahid Mahboob
Madan Lal	Ravi Ratnayeke	Sarfraz Nawaz
Manoj Prabhakar	Somachandra De Silva	Anil Dalpat (wk)
Chetan Sharma	Vinothen John	Rashid Khan
-	-	Qasim Umar
-	-	Azeem Hafeez

Matches

Group stage

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	NRR	Points
India	2	2	0	0	0	+4.212	8
Sri Lanka	2	1	1	0	0	+3.059	4
Pakistan	2	0	2	0	0	+3.489	0

6 April 1984 Scorecard

Pakistan 187/9 (46 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 190/5 (43.3 overs)
Zaheer Abbas 47 (68) Arjuna Ranatunga 3/38 (10 overs)		Roy Dias 57 (95) Abdul Qadir 2/42 (9 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah, UAE Umpires: Dickie Bird (Eng) and Swaroop Kishen (Ind) Player of the match: Roy Dias (SL)

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8 April 1984 Scorecard

Sri Lanka 96 (41 overs)	v	India 97/0 (21.4 overs)
Ranjan Madugalle 38 (76) Madan Lal 3/11 (8 overs)		Surinder Khanna 51* (69)

India won by 10 wickets Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah, UAE Umpires: Dickie Bird (Eng) and Shakoor Rana (Pak) Player of the match: Surinder Khanna (Ind)

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13 April 1984 Scorecard

India 188/4 (46 overs)	v	Pakistan 134 (39.4 overs)
Surinder Khanna 56 (72) Shahid Mahboob 1/23 (10 overs)		Mohsin Khan 35 (65) Roger Binny 3/33 (9.4 overs)

India won by 54 runs Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah, UAE Umpires: Dickie Bird (Eng) and Herbi Felsinger (SL) Player of the match: Surinder Khanna (Ind)

Statistics

Most runs

Player	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	SR	HS	100	50	4s	6s
Surinder Khanna	2	2	107	107.00	75.88	56	0	2	9	2
Zaheer Abbas	2	2	74	37.00	65.48	47	0	0	3	2
Roy Dias	2	2	62	62.00	50.81	57*	0	1	1	0
Mohsin Khan	2	2	62	31.71	31.00	35	0	0	3	0
Ghulam Parkar	2	2	54	54.00	43.90	32*	0	0	5	0
Source: Cricinfo

Most wickets

Player	Matches	Innings	Wickets	Overs	Econ.	Ave.	BBI	S/R	4WI	5WI
Ravi Shastri	2	2	4	17	3.11	13.25	3/40	25.5	0	0
Madan Lal	2	2	3	14	2.28	10.66	3/11	28.0	0	0
Arjuna Ranatunga	2	1	3	10	3.80	12.66	3/38	20.0	0	0
Chetan Sharma	2	2	3	15	2.66	13.33	3/22	30.0	0	0
Roger Binny	2	2	3	16.4	3.48	19.33	3/33	33.3	0	0
Source: Cricinfo

External links

• Cricinfo tournament page
• Cricket Archive: Rothmans Asia Cup 1983/84
• CricInfo: Asia Cup (Ind Pak SL) in Sharjah: Apr 1984