The 1997 Asia Cup (also known as the Pepsi Asia Cup 1997) was the sixth Asia Cup tournament, and the second to be held in Sri Lanka. The tournament took place between July 14–26, 1997. Four teams took part in the tournament: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
The 1997 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 and Sri Lanka qualified for the final where Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets to win its second Asia Cup and ending India's three consecutive championship run.
Squads
SquadsCricinfo Asia Cup page Cricinfo. Retrieved on 17 September 2021 Sachin Tendulkar (c) Arjuna Ranatunga (c) Ramiz Raja (c) Akram Khan (c) Sourav Ganguly Sanath Jayasuriya Saeed Anwar Athar Ali Khan Navjot Singh Sidhu Marvan Atapattu Aamer Sohail Naimur Rahman Rahul Dravid Aravinda de Silva Inzamam-ul-Haq Habibul Bashar Mohammad Azharuddin Roshan Mahanama Saleem Malik Aminul Islam Robin Singh Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk) Moin Khan (wk) Enamul Haque Ajay Jadeja Ruwan Kalpage Shahid Afridi Minhajul Abedin Saba Karim (wk) Kumar Dharmasena Saqlain Mushtaq Khaled Mashud (wk) Anil Kumble Chaminda Vaas Aaqib Javed Hasibul Hossain Abey Kuruvilla Muttiah Muralitharan Arshad Khan Saiful Islam Venkatesh Prasad Sajeewa de Silva Kabir Khan Sheikh Salahuddin Noel David Lanka de Silva - Mafizur Rahman Nilesh Kulkarni Upul Chandana - Zakir Hasan - Dulip Liyanage - -
Matches Group stage
Final
Statistics
Most runs PlayerMatchesInningsRunsAverageSRHS100504s6s Arjuna Ranatunga44272136.0088.02131*12293 Marvan Atapattu4425585.0073.9184*03181 Sanath Jayasuriya4420451.00115.2510811236 Mohammad Azharuddin43185185.0082.2281*0284 Athar Ali Khan3315752.3362.308201172Source: Cricinfo
Most wickets PlayerMatchesInningsWicketsOversEcon.Ave.BBIS/R4WI5WI Venkatesh Prasad447246.0717.004/1720.510 Saqlain Mushtaq32619.36.5312.665/3819.501 Sanath Jayasuriya436306.2724.504/4930.010 Robin Singh435166.1013.603/1319.200 Chaminda Vaas335227.5719.402/3226.400Source: Cricinfo
See also Asia Cup
References
External links Cricket archive tournament page ESPN Cricinfo: Asia Cup in Sri Lanka, Jul 1997 http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/series/61008.html