1995 Asia Cup

Cricket tournament in the United Arab Emirates

Cricket tournament

1995 Asia CupAdministrator(s)| Asian Cricket Council

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Cricket format| One Day International
Tournament format(s)| Round-robin and Knockout
Host(s)| United Arab Emirates
Champions|  India (4th title)
Runners-up|  Sri Lanka
Participants| 4
Matches| 7
Player of the series|  Navjot Sidhu
Most runs|  Sachin Tendulkar (205)
Most wickets|  Anil Kumble (7)

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The 1995 Asia Cup (also known as the Pepsi Asia Cup), was the fifth Asia Cup tournament, and the second to be held in Sharjah, UAE. The tournament took place between April 5–14, 1995. Four teams took part in the tournament: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

The 1995 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, Pakistan and Sri Lanka all had four points at the end of the round-robin stage, but India and Sri Lanka qualified for the final on the basis of better run-rates. India beat Sri Lanka by 8 wickets to win its third consecutive (and fourth in total) Asia Cup.

## Squads

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Squads[1]

India |  Sri Lanka |  Pakistan |  Bangladesh
Mohammad Azharuddin (c) | Arjuna Ranatunga (c) | Moin Khan (c) & (wk) | Akram Khan (c)
Manoj Prabhakar | Asanka Gurusinha | Aamer Sohail | Athar Ali Khan
Sachin Tendulkar | Sanath Jayasuriya | Saeed Anwar | Javed Omar
Navjot Singh Sidhu | Roshan Mahanama | Ghulam Ali | Sajjad Ahmed
Sanjay Manjrekar | Aravinda de Silva | Inzamam-ul-Haq | Aminul Islam
Ajay Jadeja | Hashan Tillakaratne | Asif Mujtaba | Minhajul Abedin
Nayan Mongia (wk) | Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk) | Wasim Akram | Enamul Haque
Anil Kumble | Kumar Dharmasena | Zafar Iqbal | Mohammad Rafique
Javagal Srinath | Chaminda Vaas | Naeem Ashraf | Khaled Mashud (wk)
Venkatesh Prasad | Muttiah Muralitharan | Nadeem Khan | Saiful Islam
Aashish Kapoor | Janak Gamage | Aaqib Javed | Anisur Rahman
Vinod Kambli | Ruwan Kalpage | Aamer Nazir | Habibul Bashar
Prashant Vaidya | Chamara Dunusinghe | Arshad Khan | Hasibul Hossain
Utpal Chatterjee | Champaka Ramanayake | Mahmood Hamid | Naimur Rahman

## Matches

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### Group stage

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Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | RR

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India | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4.856
Sri Lanka | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4.701
Pakistan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4.596
Bangladesh | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.933

5 April 1995
Scorecard

Bangladesh
163 (44.4 overs)

India
164/1 (27.5 overs)

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Aminul Islam 30 (53)
Anil Kumble 2/23 (8 overs)

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Navjot Sidhu 56* (51)
Mohammad Rafique 1/15 (5 overs)

India won by 9 wickets
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Nigel Plews (Eng) and Ian Robinson (Zim)
Player of the match: Manoj Prabhakar (Ind)

* Sajjad Ahmed, Khaled Mashud, Javed Omar, Mohammad Rafique and Anisur Rahman (all Ban), and Utpal Chatterjee (Ind) made their debut in ODIs.

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6 April 1995
Scorecard

Sri Lanka
233 (49.4 overs)

Bangladesh
126 (44.2 overs)

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Arjuna Ranatunga 71 (72)
Saiful Islam 4/36 (10 overs)

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Minhajul Abedin 26 (37)
Muttiah Muralitharan 4/23 (8.2 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 107 runs
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Cyril Mitchley (SA) and Nigel Plews (Eng)
Player of the match: Arjuna Ranatunga (SL)

* Chamara Dunusinghe (SL), and Habibul Bashar and Hasibul Hossain (both Ban) made their debut in ODIs.

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7 April 1995
Scorecard

Pakistan
266/9 (50 overs)

India
169 (42.4 overs)

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Inzamam-ul-Haq 88 (100)
Anil Kumble 2/29 (8 overs)

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Navjot Sidhu 54 (108)
Aaqib Javed 5/19 (9 overs)

Pakistan won by 97 runs
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Cyril Mitchley (SA) and Ian Robinson (Zim)
Player of the match: Aaqib Javed (Pak)

* Naeem Ashraf and Zafar Iqbal (both Pak) made their debut in ODIs.

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8 April 1995
Scorecard

Bangladesh
151/8 (50 overs)

Pakistan
152/4 (29.4 overs)

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Akram Khan 44 (82)
Aamer Nazir 2/23 (7 overs)

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Ghulam Ali 38 (53)
Athar Ali Khan 1/10 (2 overs)

Pakistan won by 6 wickets
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Nigel Plews (Eng) and Ian Robinson (Zim)
Player of the match: Wasim Akram (Pak)

* Naimur Rahman (Ban) made his debut in ODIs.

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9 April 1995
Scorecard

Sri Lanka
202/9 (50 overs)

India
206/2 (33.1 overs)

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Hashan Tillakaratne 48 (78)
Venkatesh Prasad 3/37 (10 overs)

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Sachin Tendulkar 112 (107)
Sanath Jayasuriya 2/42 (10 overs)

India won by 8 wickets
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Cyril Mitchley (SA) and Nigel Plews (Eng)
Player of the match: Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)

* Sachin Tendulkar (Ind) became the youngest player to reach 3,000 runs in ODIs.[2]

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11 April 1995
Scorecard

Pakistan
178/9 (50 overs)

Sri Lanka
180/5 (30.5 overs)

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Inzamam-ul-Haq 73 (96)
Champaka Ramanayake 3/25 (10 overs)

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Roshan Mahanama 48 (74)
Aamer Sohail 2/21 (5 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Cyril Mitchley (SA) and Ian Robinson (Zim)
Player of the match: Sanath Jayasuriya (SL)

* Mahmood Hamid and Javed Qadeer (both Pak) made their debut in ODIs.

## Final

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14 April 1995
Scorecard

Sri Lanka
230/7 (50 overs)

India
233/2 (41.5 overs)

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Asanka Gurusinha 85 (122)
Venkatesh Prasad 2/32 (10 overs)

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Mohammad Azharuddin 90* (121)
Champaka Ramanayake 1/52 (8.5 overs)

India won by 8 wickets
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Nigel Plews (Eng) and Cyril Mitchley (SA)
Player of the match: Mohammad Azharuddin (Ind)

* India won the toss and elected to field.

## Statistics

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### Most runs

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Player  | Matches  | Innings  | Runs  | Average | SR  | HS  | 100  | 50  | 4s  | 6s

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Sachin Tendulkar | 4  | 4  | 205 | 68.33  | 109.62  | 112*  | 1  | 0  | 30  | 2
Navjot Singh Sidhu | 4  | 4  | 197 | 98.50  | 80.40  | 84*  | 0  | 3  | 19  | 0
Inzamam-ul-Haq | 3  | 3  | 190 | 95.00  | 86.75  | 88  | 0  | 2  | 11  | 3
Sanath Jayasuriya | 4  | 4  | 134 | 33.50  | 87.01  | 51  | 0  | 1  | 20  | 1
Manoj Prabhakar | 4  | 4  | 122 | 40.66  | 64.89  | 60  | 0  | 2  | 12  | 0
Source: Cricinfo[3]

### Most wickets

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Player  | Matches  | Innings  | Wickets  | Overs  | Econ.  | Ave.  | BBI  | S/R  | 4WI  | 5WI

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Anil Kumble | 4  | 4  | 7 | 36  | 3.86  | 19.85  | 2/23  | 20.5  | 0  | 0
Venkatesh Prasad | 3  | 3  | 6 | 28  | 4.00  | 18.66  | 3/37  | 19.5  | 0  | 0
Aaqib Javed | 2  | 2  | 5 | 19  | 2.52  | 9.60  | 5/19  | 30.0  | 0  | 1
Saiful Islam | 3  | 3  | 5 | 22  | 4.54  | 20.00  | 4/36  | 19.2  | 1  | 0
Muttiah Muralitharan | 3  | 3  | 5 | 28.2  | 3.91  | 22.20  | 4/23  | 26.4  | 1  | 0
Source: Cricinfo[4]

## See also

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* Asia Cup

## References

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1. ^ Cricinfo Asia Cup page Cricinfo. Retrieved on 17 September 2021
2. ^ "On This Day in 1995: Sachin Tendulkar Became Youngest Cricketer to Score 3,000 ODI Runs - News18". News18.com. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
3. ^ "Pepsi Asia Cup, 1994/95 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
4. ^ "Pepsi Asia Cup, 1994/95 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2021-11-12.

* Cricket Archive: Pepsi Asia Cup 1994/95 http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Seasons/UAE/1994-95_UAE_Pepsi_Asia_Cup_1994-95.html
* CricInfo: Asia Cup, 1995 http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1994-95/OD_TOURNEYS/ASIA/

## External links

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* Cricinfo tournament page

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