2004 Asia Cup

2004 Asia Cup

Administrator(s)	Asian Cricket Council
Cricket format	One Day International
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and Knockout
Host(s)	Sri Lanka
Champions	Sri Lanka (3rd title)
Runners-up	India
Participants	6
Matches	13
Player of the series	Sanath Jayasuriya
Most runs	Shoaib Malik (316)
Most wickets	Irfan Pathan (14)

The eighth edition of cricket's Asia Cup (also called Indian Oil Asia Cup) was held in Sri Lanka after a gap of 4 years. Sri Lanka beat India in the final to win the cup. The 4 test playing Asian nations participated in the tournament along with, for the first time, leading Asian associate nations, the UAE and Hong Kong.^[1]

Squads

Bangladesh[2]	Hong Kong	India[3]	Pakistan[4]	Sri Lanka	United Arab Emirates
Habibul Bashar (c) Javed Omar Rajin Saleh Faisal Hossain Mohammad Ashraful Alok Kapali Mushfiqur Rahman Khaled Mahmud Khaled Mashud Mohammad Rafique Manjural Islam Rana Tapash Baisya Tareq Aziz Abdur Razzak	Rahul Sharma (c) Manoj Cheruparambil Ilyas Gul Tim Smart Tabarak Dar Alexander French Najeeb Amar Roy Lamsam Nasir Hameed Sher Lama Khalid Khan Nadeem Ahmed Afzaal Haider Graeme Jardine	Sourav Ganguly (c) Rahul Dravid (vc & wk) Sachin Tendulkar Virender Sehwag V.V.S. Laxman Yuvraj Singh Mohammed Kaif Parthiv Patel (wk) Anil Kumble Harbhajan Singh Zaheer Khan Lakshmipathy Balaji Irfan Pathan Ashish Nehra	Inzamam-ul-Haq (c) Yousuf Youhana Imran Farhat Yasir Hameed Imran Nazir Younis Khan Moin Khan Abdul Razzaq Shoaib Malik Rana Naved-ul-Hasan Mohammad Sami Shoaib Akhtar Shabbir Ahmed Danish Kaneria	Marvan Atapattu (c) Mahela Jayawardene Sanath Jayasuriya Saman Jayantha Kumar Sangakkara Tillakaratne Dilshan Thilina Kandamby Upul Chandana Chaminda Vaas Nuwan Zoysa Muttiah Muralitharan Avishka Gunawardane Lasith Malinga Farveez Maharoof	Khurram Khan (c) Arshad Ali Abdul Rehman Ali Asad Abbas Asghar Ali Asim Saeed Fahad Usman Mohammad Tauqir Mohammad Fawad Naeemuddin Ramveer Rai Rizwan Latif Sameer Zia Syed Maqsood

Venues

Sri Lanka
Western Province		Central Province
Colombo		Dambulla
R. Premadasa Stadium	Sinhalese Sports Club	Dambulla Cricket Stadium
Capacity: 35,000	Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 30,000
Matches: 6	Matches: 4	Matches: 3
RP Stadium SCC Ground RDI Stadium

Group stage

Group A

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	NRR	Points
Pakistan	2	2	0	0	0	+2.567	12
Bangladesh	2	1	1	0	0	+0.400	6
Hong Kong	2	0	2	0	0	-2.979	0

16 July 2004 (scorecard)

Bangladesh  221/9 (50 overs)	v	Hong Kong 105 (45.2 overs)
Javed Omar 68 (113) Ilyas Gull 3/46 (10 overs)		Tabarak Dar 20 (44) Abdur Razzak 3/17 (9 overs)

Bangladesh won by 116 runs Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo, Sri Lanka Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) and Tyron Wijewardene (SL) Player of the match: Javed Omar (Ban)

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17 July 2004 (scorecard)

Pakistan  257/6 (50 overs)	v	Bangladesh 181 (45.2 overs)
Yasir Hameed 102 (123) Abdur Razzak 2/36 (10 overs)		Javed Omar 62 (87) Shoaib Akhtar 3/30 (10 overs)

Pakistan won by 76 runs Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Brian Jerling (SA) and Gamini Silva (SL) Player of the match: Yasir Hameed (Pak)

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18 July 2004 (scorecard)

Pakistan  343/5 (50 overs)	v	Hong Kong 165 (44.1 overs)
Younis Khan 144 (122) Khalid Khan 2/62 (10 overs)		Tabarak Dar 36 (43) Shoaib Malik 4/19 (9.5 overs)

Pakistan won by 173 runs (D/L method) Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) and Brian Jerling (SA) Player of the match: Shoaib Malik (Pak)

Group B

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	NRR	Points
Sri Lanka	2	2	0	0	0	+1.280	11
India	2	1	1	0	0	+1.040	7
United Arab Emirates	2	0	2	0	0	-2.320	0

16 July 2004 (scorecard)

India  260/6 (50 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 144 (35 overs)
Rahul Dravid 104 (93) Rizwan Latif 2/69 (9 overs)		Mohammad Tauqir 55 (73) Irfan Pathan 3/28 (8 overs)

India won by 116 runs Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Ian Howell (SA) Player of the match: Rahul Dravid (Ind)

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17 July 2004 (scorecard)

Sri Lanka  239 (50 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 123 (47.5 overs)
Avishka Gunawardene 73 (89) Khurram Khan 4/32 (10 overs)		Ramveer Rai 39 (124) Upul Chandana 4/22 (9.5 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 116 runs Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla Umpires: Ian Howell (SA) and Peter Parker (Aus) Player of the match: Khurram Khan (UAE)

• Lasith Malinga (SL) made his ODI debut.

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18 July 2004 (scorecard)

Sri Lanka  282/4 (50 overs)	v	India 270/8 (50 overs)
Mahela Jayawardene 58 (49) Irfan Pathan 1/49 (10 overs)		Rahul Dravid 82 (100) Nuwan Zoysa 3/49 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 12 runs Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and Peter Parker (Aus) Player of the match: Nuwan Zoysa (SL)

Super Fours

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	NRR	BP	Points
Sri Lanka	3	2	1	0	0	+1.144	3	13
India	3	2	1	0	0	+0.022	2	12
Pakistan	3	2	1	0	0	+0.162	0	10
Bangladesh	3	0	3	0	0	-1.190	1	1

21 July 2004 (scorecard)

Bangladesh  177 (49.1 overs)	v	India 178/2 (38.3 overs)
Mohammad Ashraful 35 (69) Irfan Pathan 3/32 (8.1 overs)		Sachin Tendulkar 82* (126) Mohammad Rafique 1/30 (7 overs)

India won by 8 wickets Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and David Shepherd (Eng) Player of the match: Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)

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21 July 2004 (scorecard)

Pakistan  122 (39.5 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 123/3 (32 overs)
Abdul Razzaq 43 (71) Nuwan Zoysa 3/29 (10 overs)		Avishka Gunawardene 26 (78) Abdul Razzaq 2/21 (6 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Peter Parker (Aus) Player of the match: Nuwan Zoysa (SL)

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23 July 2004 (scorecard)

Bangladesh  190/9 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 191/0 (33.3 overs)
Mohammad Ashraful 66 (120) Chaminda Vaas 3/30 (10 overs)		Sanath Jayasuriya 107* (101)

Sri Lanka won by 10 wickets R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Peter Parker (Aus) and David Shepherd (Eng) Player of the match: Sanath Jayasuriya (SL)

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25 July 2004 (scorecard)

Pakistan  300/9 (50 overs)	v	India 241/8 (50 overs)
Shoaib Malik 143 (137) Sachin Tendulkar 3/28 (5 overs)		Sachin Tendulkar 78 (103) Shabbir Ahmed 2/38 (10 overs)

Pakistan won by 59 runs R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Billy Doctrove (WI) Player of the match: Shoaib Malik (Pak)

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27 July 2004 (scorecard)

India  271/6 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 267/9 (50 overs)
Virender Sehwag 81 (92) Lasith Malinga 2/56 (10 overs)		Sanath Jayasuriya 130 (132) Virender Sehwag 3/37 (9 overs)

India won by 4 runs R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) and David Shepherd (Eng) Player of the match: Virender Sehwag (Ind)

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29 July 2004 (scorecard)

Bangladesh  166 (45.2 overs)	v	Pakistan 167/4 (41 overs)
Khaled Mashud 54 (94) Shabbir Ahmed 3/32 (10 overs)		Shoaib Malik 48 (56) Abdur Razzak 1/29 (10 overs)

Pakistan won by 6 wickets R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Peter Parker (Aus) Player of the match: Shoaib Malik (Pak)

Final

1 August 2004 (scorecard)

Sri Lanka  228/9 (50 overs)	v	India 203/9 (50 overs)
Marvan Atapattu 65 (87) Irfan Pathan 2/33 (7 overs)		Sachin Tendulkar 74 (100) Upul Chandana 3/33 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 25 runs R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and David Shepherd (Eng) Player of the match: Marvan Atapattu (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.

References

1. Wisden Cricinfo Staff (12 May 2004). "Sri Lanka to host the Asia Cup". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
2. "Javed Omar replaces Hannan Sarkar". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
3. "Agarkar and Kartik dropped". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
4. "Shoaib Akhtar picked in Asia Cup squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2022-08-23.

External links

• "Asia Cup 2004". ESPNcricinfo.