2014 Asia Cup

Venues

Match officials

• Nigel Llong
• Bruce Oxenford
• Billy Bowden
• Johan Cloete

• Anisur Rahman
• Masudur Rahman
• Tanvir Ahmed
• Raveendra Wimalasiri
• Nandan
• Ahsan Raza

• Jeff Crowe
• Chris Broad

  Squads

1. The squad for India had MS Dhoni as captain but he was ruled out due to injury and was replaced with Virat Kohli as captain and Dinesh Karthik as wicket-keeper.
2. Shakib Al Hasan suffered a match ban, hence he stayed out of the first two matches against India and Afghanistan.
3. Tamim Iqbal was ruled out due to injury from the Bangladesh squad.
4. Mashrafe Mortaza was ruled out of the Bangladesh squad due to injury after the first match against India.
5. Sohag Gazi was ruled out of the Bangladesh squad due to injury after the second match against Afghanistan.

   Schedule

Points table

Fixtures and results

Final

Records and statistics

Batting

Player	Nat	Matches	Runs	NO	Ave.	SR	HS	100	50	4s	6s
Lahiru Thirimanne		5	279	0	55.80	79.94	102	2	0	31	2
Umar Akmal		5	253	0	84.33	110.48	102*	1	2	23	6
Kumar Sangakkara		5	248	0	49.60	96.49		1	2	26	2
Ahmed Shehzad		5	228	0	45.60	80.00	103	1	1	30	1
Anamul Haque		4	227	0	56.75	68.16	100	1	1	13	8

Bowling

Player	Nat	Matches	Wickets	Overs	Runs	Econ.	Ave.	BBI	4WI	5WI
Lasith Malinga		4	11	34.5	189	5.42	17.18	5/52	0	2
Saeed Ajmal		5	11	49.0	202	4.12	18.36	3/26	0	0
Ajantha Mendis		3	9	26.0	126	4.84	14.00	4/60	1	0
Ravichandran Ashwin		4	9	39.4	167	4.21	18.55	3/31	0	0
Mohammed Shami		4	9	37.2	230	6.16	25.55	4/50	1	0

Achievements

• Lasith Malinga took his 6th five wicket haul in ODIs. It was his first five wicket haul in ODIs since January 2012.
• Lahiru Thirimanne made his 2nd ODI ton.

• Mohammed Shami took his career best figures of 10–1–50–4.
• Mushfiqur Rahim made his career best score of 117.
• Only the second time that both captains scored 100 runs.

• First ever match between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
• Umar Akmal made his 2nd ODI ton.
• Afghanistan became the seventh team to play a match in the Asia Cup.

• Ravichandran Ashwin reached 100 ODI wickets for India.
• Kumar Sangakkara became the third batsman to score 4000+ runs against India.
• Kumar Sangakkara made his 18th ODI ton.
• Bhuvneshwar Kumar became the second player to be stumped on a wide, without facing a single legal ball in cricket history.

• First ever match between Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
• Afghanistan registered their first win against a test playing nation.
• Asghar Stanikzai made his career best score of 90 not out.

• This match was Ravindra Jadeja's 100th ODI.
• This match was Mohammad Talha's debut ODI.
• Mohammad Hafeez made his 19th ODI fifty.

• First ever match between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.
• Kumar Sangakkara became the second player to score 1000+ runs in Asia Cup history after Sanath Jayasuriya.
• Kumar Sangakkara made his 85th ODI fifty. It was his 12th 50+ score in Asia Cup tournaments.

• Imrul Kayes and Anamul Haque added 150 for the first wicket which became Bangladesh's second best opening stand in ODIs.
• Ahmed Shehzad made his 5th ODI ton.
• Shahid Afridi's fifty off 18 balls became the fastest fifty in a chase and the second fastest in ODIs.
• 327 became Pakistan's highest successful run chase in ODIs, beating their previous highest chase of 322 runs against India in Mohali in 2007.

• First ever match between Afghanistan and India.
• Mohammed Shami became the second fastest Indian bowler to take 50 ODI wickets.

• As a result of this match, Sri Lanka won 4 out of 4 league matches and Bangladesh lost 4 out 4 league matches.

• Fawad Alam made his maiden ODI ton.
• Lasith Malinga took his 2nd five wicket haul of the tournament, becoming the first bowler to take 3 five wicket hauls in Asia Cup history. It was his 7th five wicket haul in ODIs.
• Lahiru Thirimanne made his 3rd ODI ton and became the top scorer of the tournament with 279 runs in 5 matches. He was thus awarded Man of the Series.
• Mahela Jayawardene made his 71st ODI fifty.
• Sri Lanka won the tournament undefeated after losing all their matches in the previous tournament.
• Sri Lanka tied with India for the record of most Asia Cup titles.