The 14th edition of Asia Cup will be held in United Arab Emirates from 15th to 28th September 2018 and will be played in the ODI format. The first edition of Asia Cup was held in Sharjah in 1984 and since then, 13 editions have been played. First 12 editions were played in ODI format while the 13th and last edition was played in T20I format.
India with 6 titles (5 in ODI format and 1 in T20I format) is the most successful team and they are also the defending champions. Here is a look at Team India's Asia Cup history in numbers.
All the stats and facts all you need to know about 6 times Asia Cup winners India :
Champions : 6 times (1984, 1988, 1990-91, 1995, 2010 & 2016)
Runners-up : 3 times (1997, 2004 & 2008)
Team records (ODI format) :
1. Result Summary -
Opposition | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | NR |
Sri Lanka | 19 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
Pakistan | 11 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Bangladesh | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Afghanistan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hong Kong | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
UAE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Overall | 43 | 26 | 16 | 0 | 1 |
2. Highest totals -
374/4 vs Hong Kong at Karachi, 2008
330/4 vs Pakistan at Dhaka, 2012
310/4 vs Sri Lanka at Karachi, 2008
308/7 vs Pakistan at Karachi, 2008
3. Lowest totals -
169 vs Pakistan at Sharjah, 1995
173 vs Sri Lanka at Karachi, 2008
178 vs Sri Lanka at Cuttack, 1990
203/9 vs Sri Lanka at Colombo, 2004
Batting records :
1. Most runs -
Player | Mat | Inns | Runs | Avg | SR | HS | 100 | 50 |
Sachin Tendulkar | 23 | 21 | 971 | 51.10 | 85.47 | 114 | 2 | 7 |
Virat Kohli | 11 | 10 | 613 | 61.30 | 97.14 | 183 | 3 | 1 |
Gautam Gambhir | 13 | 13 | 573 | 44.07 | 89.95 | 100 | 1 | 5 |
MS Dhoni | 13 | 12 | 571 | 95.16 | 92.84 | 109* | 1 | 3 |
Suresh Raina | 13 | 13 | 547 | 60.77 | 113.95 | 116* | 2 | 3 |
2. Most hundreds -
Virat Kohli - 3
Suresh Raina / Sachin Tendulkar - 2
MS Dhoni / G Gambhir / NS Sidhu / R Dravid / S Ganguly / V Sehwag - 1
3. Highest individual scores -
183 - Virat Kohli vs Pakistan at Dhaka, 2012
136 - Virat Kohli vs Bangladesh at Fatullah, 2014
135* - Sourav Ganguly vs Bangladesh at Dhaka, 2000
119 - Virender Sehwag vs Pakistan at Karachi, 2008
116* - Suresh Raina vs Bangladesh at Karachi, 2008
4. Best batting average (Min 500 runs) -
MS Dhoni - 95.16
Navjot Sidhu - 66.25
Virat Kohli - 61.30
Suresh Raina - 60.77
Sourav Ganguly - 51.80
Bowling records :
1. Most wickets -
Player | Mat | wkts | Avg | Sr | Eco | BBI | 4w |
Irfan Pathan | 12 | 22 | 27.50 | 29.7 | 5.54 | 4/32 | 1 |
Sachin Tendulkar | 23 | 17 | 21.41 | 26.9 | 4.76 | 3/21 | 0 |
Kapil Dev | 7 | 15 | 13.00 | 21.8 | 3.56 | 4/31 | 1 |
R Ashwin | 7 | 14 | 22.71 | 29.4 | 4.63 | 3/31 | 0 |
Anil Kumble | 15 | 14 | 38.00 | 54.8 | 4.15 | 3/43 | 0 |
2. Best bowling figures in an innings -
5/21 - Arshad Ayub vs Pakistan at Dhaka, 1988
4/6 - Virender Sehwag vs Bangladesh at Dambulla, 2010
4/17 - Venkatesh Prasad vs Pakistan at Colombo, 1997
4/23 - Piyush Chawla vs Hong Kong at Karachi, 2008
4/30 - Ravindra Jadeja vs Afghanistan at Dhaka, 2014
3. Best bowling average (Min 10 wkts) -
Kapil Dev - 13.00
Venktesh Prasad - 17.76
Virender Sehwag - 21.16
Sachin Tendulkar - 21.41
R Ashwin - 22.71
4. Most four wickets hauls -
Arshad Ayub / Piyush Chawla / Ravindra Jadeja - 1
Kapil Dev / Mohammad Shami / Ashish Nehra - 1
Irfan Pathan / Venkatesh Prasad / Virender Sehwag - 1