Asia Cup 2018

The Asia Cup 2018 was the 14th edition of the cricket competition for Asian national teams and was held on September 15 and 28, 2018 in the United Arab Emirates in ODI format. In the final, India beat Bangladesh with 3 wickets and won the tournament for the seventh time.

Attendees

The participants were the five Asian nations with test status and one other participant who was determined in a qualifying tournament .

Afghanistan Bangladesh Hong Kong

India Pakistan Sri Lanka

Squad list

Bangladesh named its roster on August 29, 2018. India and Sri Lanka named their roster on September 1, 2018. Afghanistan named its roster on September 2, 2018. Pakistan named its roster on September 4, 2018. Hong Kong named its roster on September 10, 2018. September 2018.

ODI
Afghanistan	Bangladesh	Hong Kong	India	Pakistan	Sri Lanka
Asghar Afghan ( K ) Javed Ahmadi Munir Ahmad Yamin Ahmadzai Aftab Alam Ihsanullah Rashid Khan Mohammad Nabi Gulbadin Naib Rahmat Shah Hashmatullah Shahidi Mohammad Shahzad ( wk ) Samiullah Shenwari Sayed Shirzad Mujeeb Ur Rahman Najibullah Zadran	Masrafe Mortaza ( K ) Shakib Al Hasan Litton Kumar Das Ariful Haque Abu Hider Rony Rubles Hossain Tamim Iqbal Nazmul Islam Apu Mahmudullah Mehidy Hasan Miraz Mohammad Mithun Mushfiqur Rahim ( wk ) Mustafizur Rahman Mosaddek Hossain Saikat Nazmul Hossain Shanto	Anshuman Rath ( K ) Tanwir Afzal Nadeem Ahmed Tanveer Ahmed Haroon Arshed Christopher Carter Babar Hayat Aftab Hussain Raag Kapur Aizaz Khan Ehsan Khan Nizakat Khan Waqas Khan Cameron McAuslan Scott McKechnie Ehsan Nawaz Kinchit Shah	Rohit Sharma ( K ) Shikhar Dhawan Khaleel Ahmed Jasprite Bumrah Yuzvendra Chahal MS Dhoni ( wk ) Kedar Jadhav Dinesh Karthik Bhuvneshwar Kumar KL Rahul Manish Pandey Deepak Chahar Ravindra Jadeja Ambati Rayudu Siddarth Kaul Kuldeep Yadav	Sarfraz Ahmed ( K , wk ) Shaheen Afridi Asif Ali Hasan Ali Mohammad Amir Faheem Ashraf Babar Azam Mohammad Junaid Khan Shadab Khan Mohammad Asif Shoaib Malik Shan Masood Mohammad Nawaz Haris Sohail Imam-ul-Haq Fakhar Zaman	Angelo Mathews ( K ) Amila Aponso Dushmantha Chameera Niroshan Dickwella ( wk ) Akila Dananjaya Danushka Gunathilaka Suranga Lakmal Lasith Malinga Kusal Mendis Dilruwan Perera Kusal Perera ( wk ) Thisara Perera Kasun Rajitha Dasun Shanaka Dhananjaya de Silva Upul Tharanga

format

In a group stage, each team initially played against each other. The winner of a game received two points, and a tie or no result received one point. The two group winners and runners-up moved into the Super Four round. There each team played again against each other and the group first and second played in a final of the tournament winner.

Stages

Dubai Abu Dhabi

Venues of the Asia Cup

The following two stadiums in the United Arab Emirates have been selected for the tournament. The tournament was originally supposed to take place in India, but was then postponed due to the problems between India and Pakistan.

city	Stadion	capacity
Dubai	Dubai International Cricket Stadium	25,000
Abu Dhabi	Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium	20,000

Preliminary round

Group A

Group A	Sp.	S.	N	NO	P	NRR
India	2	2	0	0	4th	+1,474
Pakistan	2	1	1	0	2	+0.284
Hong Kong	2	0	2	0	0	−1,748

September 16 scorecard	Dubai	Hong Kong 116 (37.1)	-	Pakistan 120-2 (23.4)
		Pakistan wins with 8 wickets

September 18 scorecard	Dubai	India 285-7 (50)	-	Hong Kong 258-8 (50)
		India wins with 26 runs

September 19 scorecard	Dubai	Pakistan 162 (43.1)	-	India 164-2 (29)
		India wins with 8 wickets

Group B

table

Group B	Sp.	S.	N	NO	P	NRR
Afghanistan	2	2	0	0	4th	+2,270
Bangladesh	2	1	1	0	2	+0.010
Sri Lanka	2	0	2	0	0	−2,280

Games

September 15 scorecard	Dubai	Bangladesh 261 (49.3)	-	Sri Lanka 124 (35.2)
		Bangladesh wins with 137 runs

September 17th scorecard	Abu Dhabi	Afghanistan 249 (50)	-	Sri Lanka 158 (41.2)
		Afghanistan wins with 91 runs

September 20 scorecard	Abu Dhabi	Afghanistan 255-7 (50)	-	Bangladesh 119 (42.1)
		Afghanistan wins with 136 runs

Super four

Super four	Sp.	S.	N	U	NO	P	NRR
India	3	2	0	1	0	5	+0.863
Bangladesh	3	2	1	0	0	4th	-0.156
Pakistan	3	1	2	0	0	2	-0.599
Afghanistan	3	0	2	1	0	1	−0.044

September 21 scorecard	Dubai	Bangladesh 173 (49.1)	-	India 174-3 (36.2)
		India wins with 7 wickets

September 21 scorecard	Abu Dhabi	Afghanistan 257-6 (50)	-	Pakistan 258-7 (49.3)
		Pakistan wins with 3 wickets

September 23 scorecard	Dubai	Pakistan 237-7 (50)	-	India 238-1 (39.3)
		India wins with 9 wickets

September 23 scorecard	Abu Dhabi	Bangladesh 249-7 (50)	-	Afghanistan 246-7 (50)
		Bangladesh wins with 3 runs

September 25 scorecard	Dubai	Afghanistan 252-8 (50)	-	India 252 (49.5)
		draw

September 26 scorecard	Abu Dhabi	Bangladesh 239 (48.5)	-	Pakistan 202-9 (50)
		Bangladesh wins with 37 runs

final

September 28th scorecard	Dubai	Bangladesh 222 (48.3)	-	India 223-7 (50)
		India wins with 3 wickets

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sabbir dropped from Bangladesh's Asia Cup squad ( English ) Cricinfo. August 30, 2018. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
2. ^ India rest Virat Kohli for Asia Cup, Rohit Sharma to lead; uncapped Khaleel Ahmed called up ( English ) Cricinfo. September 1, 2018. Accessed September 1, 2018.
3. ↑ Lasith Malinga recalled for Asia Cup ( English ) Cricinfo. September 6, 2018. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
4. ↑ Afghanistan pick four spinners for Asia Cup ( English ) Cricinfo. September 6, 2018. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
5. ↑ Shaheen Afridi included in Pakistan squad for Asia Cup 2018 ( English ) ICC. September 6, 2018. Retrieved September 4, 2018.
6. ↑ Anshuman Rath to lead Hong Kong into the 2018 Unimoni Asia Cup ( English ) Hong Kong Cricket. September 10, 2018. Archived from the original on September 10, 2018. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 16, 2018. 
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Explanation of the abbreviations: Col. = games; S = victories; N = defeats; U = tie; NR = No Result; P = points; NRR = Net Run Rate