The 1988 Asia Cup (also known as the Wills Asia Cup) was the third Asia Cup tournament, held in Bangladesh between 26 October and 4 November 1988. Four teams took part in the tournament: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the host nation Bangladesh. The matches were the first-ever List A-classified being played in Bangladesh, then an Associate Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC), their opponents all being Full Members.
The 1988 Asia Cup was a round-robin tournament where each team played the other three once, and the top two teams qualified for a place in the final. India and Sri Lanka qualified for the final in which India defeated Sri Lanka by 6 wickets to win its second Asia Cup.
Squads
SquadsCricinfo Asia Cup page Cricinfo. Retrieved on 17 September 2021 Dilip Vengsarkar (c) Arjuna Ranatunga (c) Javed Miandad (c) Gazi Ashraf (c) Krishnamachari Srikkanth Roshan Mahanama Ramiz Raja Azhar Hossain Navjot Singh Sidhu Brendon Kuruppu (wk) Aamer Malik Harunur Rashid Mohinder Amarnath Athula Samarasekera Shoaib Mohammad Athar Ali Khan Mohammad Azharuddin Aravinda de Silva Saleem Malik Minhajul Abedin Kapil Dev Ranjan Madugalle Ijaz Ahmed Aminul Islam Kiran More (wk) Duleep Mendis Saleem Yousuf (wk) Zahid Razzak Sanjeev Sharma Ravi Ratnayeke Manzoor Elahi Golam Faruq Arshad Ayub Graeme Labrooy Wasim Akram Jahangir Shah Maninder Singh Kapila Wijegunawardene Abdul Qadir Nasir Ahmed (wk) Narendra Hirwani Don Anurasiri Tauseef Ahmed Gholam Nousher Ajay Sharma Hashan Tillakaratne Moin-ul-Atiq Faruk Ahmed Chandrakant Pandit Ranjith Madurasinghe Iqbal Qasim Akram Khan - Champaka Ramanayake Naved Anjum Wahidul Gani - Uvais Karnain Haafiz Shahid -
Venues
DhakaChattogramNational StadiumDistrict Stadium, ChittagongCapacity: 36,000Capacity: 20,000 Matches: 5 Matches: 2
Matches Group stage
Final
Statistics
Most runs PlayerMatchesInningsNORunsAverageSRHS100500 Ijaz Ahmed 33119296.00103.78124*110 Navjot Sidhu44117959.6677.8276030 Moin-ul-Atiq22014371.5079.00105100 Athula Samarasekera44114046.6675.6766010 Aravinda de Silva43013545.00107.1469010Source: Cricinfo
Most wickets PlayerMatchesInningsWicketsOversAve.Econ.BBI4WI5WI Arshad Ayub 44936.0013.333.335/2101 Kapila Wijegunawardene44832.0016.504.124/4910 Ravi Ratnayeke44734.0018.853.884/2310 Kapil Dev 44628.216.503.492/1600 Abdul Qadir3326.0017.003.923/2700Source: Cricinfo
See also Asia Cup
References
CricInfo: Asia Cup in Bangladesh (Bdesh Ind Pak SL) : Oct/Nov 1988 http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988-89/OD_TOURNEYS/ASIA/
External links Tournament page at ESPN Cricinfo