The 2012 Asia Cup (also called Micromax Asia Cup) was an international cricket tournament held in Bangladesh from 11 to 22 March 2012. Like the previous event, the tournament featured the four Test-playing nations from Asia: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. India entered the tournament as the defending 2010 Asia Cup Pakistan won the tournament by beating Bangladesh in the final by 2 runs.[6][7][8][9]
China was interested to host the Asia Cup at Guangzhou[10] but it was decided by the Asian Cricket Council that Bangladesh will host the event. It was the third time Bangladesh hosted the event after 1988 and 2000.
The event was supposed to be held between 1 and 11 March 2012, but was rescheduled to avoid conflicting with the ODI tri-series in Australia that also included Sri Lanka and India, which ended on 8 March. The tournament was played from 11 to 22 March.[11]
Bonus point: If a team wins, with a run rate ≥ 1.25 times that of the opposing team, that team gets 1 bonus point. (A team's run rate is number of runs scored divided by number of overs faced, except that a team is treated as having faced the full 50 overs if it loses all of its wickets)
If two or more teams have the same number of points, the right to play in the final is determined as follows:
The team having the higher number of wins.
If two or more teams have same number of wins, the team with more wins against the other teams who have equal number of points and wins. (Head to head)
If still equal, the team with the higher number of bonus points.
If still equal, the team with the greater net run rate.
Bangladesh qualified for the finals for the first time due to head to head record against India and This is the first time that Sri Lanka failed to eligible to Asian cup finals since 1984[25][26]
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The 2012 Asia Cup also called Micromax Asia Cup was an international cricket tournament held in Bangladesh from 11 to 22 March 2012 Like the previous event the tournament featured the four Test playing nations from Asia Bangladesh India Pakistan and Sri Lanka India entered the tournament as the defending 2010 Asia Cup Pakistan won the tournament by beating Bangladesh in the final by 2 runs 6 7 8 9 2012 Micromax Asia CupDates11 March 22 March 1 Administrator s Asian Cricket CouncilCricket formatOne Day InternationalTournament format s Round robin KnockoutHost s BangladeshChampions Pakistan 2nd title Runners up BangladeshParticipants4Matches7Player of the seriesShakib Al Hasan 2 3 Most runsVirat Kohli 357 4 Most wicketsUmar Gul 9 5 20102014 Contents 1 Background 2 Venues 3 Match Officials 4 Squads 5 Points table 6 Matches 6 1 Group stage matches 6 1 1 1st Match 6 1 2 2nd Match 6 1 3 3rd Match 6 1 4 4th Match 6 1 5 5th Match 6 1 6 6th Match 6 2 Final 7 Records and statistics 7 1 Batting 7 2 Bowling 8 Most Man of the match 9 References 10 External linksBackground editChina was interested to host the Asia Cup at Guangzhou 10 but it was decided by the Asian Cricket Council that Bangladesh will host the event It was the third time Bangladesh hosted the event after 1988 and 2000 The event was supposed to be held between 1 and 11 March 2012 but was rescheduled to avoid conflicting with the ODI tri series in Australia that also included Sri Lanka and India which ended on 8 March The tournament was played from 11 to 22 March 11 Venues editAll the 7 matches were played at Sher e Bangla Cricket Stadium Mirpur 12 City Venue Capacity MatchesMirpur Dhaka Sher e Bangla Cricket Stadium 26 000 7 nbsp nbsp nbsp Sher e Bangla Cricket Stadiumclass notpageimage Venue in BangladeshMatch Officials editUmpires from neutral countries nbsp Ian Gould nbsp Paul Reiffel nbsp Steve DavisUmpires from participating countries nbsp Sundaram Ravi nbsp Gazi Sohel nbsp Masudur Rahman nbsp Sharfuddoula nbsp Ruchira Palliyaguruge nbsp Shozab RazaMatch Referee nbsp David BoonSquads edit nbsp Bangladesh 13 nbsp India 14 nbsp Pakistan 15 nbsp Sri Lanka 16 Mushfiqur Rahim c amp wk Mahmudullah vc Tamim Iqbal Imrul Kayes Nazimuddin Jahurul Islam wk Anamul Haque wk Shakib Al Hasan Nasir Hossain Elias Sunny Abdur Razzak Mashrafe Mortaza Shahadat Hossain Nazmul Hossain Shafiul Islam MS Dhoni c amp wk Virat Kohli vc Sachin Tendulkar Gautam Gambhir Suresh Raina Rohit Sharma Manoj Tiwary Yusuf Pathan Irfan Pathan Ravindra Jadeja Ravichandran Ashwin Rahul Sharma Praveen Kumar Vinay Kumar Ashok Dinda Misbah ul Haq c Mohammad Hafeez Nasir Jamshed Younis Khan Asad Shafiq Umar Akmal Azhar Ali Shahid Afridi Hammad Azam Sarfraz Ahmed wk Saeed Ajmal Abdur Rehman Umar Gul Wahab Riaz Aizaz Cheema Mahela Jayawardene c Tillakaratne Dilshan Upul Tharanga Kumar Sangakkara wk Dinesh Chandimal wk Lahiru Thirimanne Chamara Kapugedera Thisara Perera Sachithra Senanayake Seekkuge Prasanna Farveez Maharoof Nuwan Kulasekara Lasith Malinga Suranga Lakmal Shaminda Eranga Angelo Mathews note 1 17 Notes Withdrawn on 14 March 2012 due to injury Replaced with Shaminda Eranga Points table editPos Team Pld W L T NR BP Pts NRR For Against1 nbsp Pakistan 3 2 1 0 0 1 9 0 444 780 139 5 759 147 52 nbsp Bangladesh 3 2 1 0 0 0 8 0 022 746 136 3 762 1403 nbsp India 3 2 1 0 0 0 8 0 377 923 147 5 876 149 24 nbsp Sri Lanka 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 887 653 140 705 127Source 18 Points system 18 Win 4 points Loss no points Tie No result 2 points Bonus point If a team wins with a run rate 1 25 times that of the opposing team that team gets 1 bonus point A team s run rate is number of runs scored divided by number of overs faced except that a team is treated as having faced the full 50 overs if it loses all of its wickets If two or more teams have the same number of points the right to play in the final is determined as follows The team having the higher number of wins If two or more teams have same number of wins the team with more wins against the other teams who have equal number of points and wins Head to head If still equal the team with the higher number of bonus points If still equal the team with the greater net run rate Matches editGroup stage matches edit 1st Match edit All times local UTC 06 00 11 March 2012 14 00 D N ScorecardPakistan nbsp 262 8 50 overs v nbsp Bangladesh241 48 1 overs Mohammad Hafeez 89 126 Shahadat Hossain 3 53 8 overs Shakib Al Hasan 64 66 Umar Gul 3 58 9 1 overs Pakistan won by 21 runsSher e Bangla Cricket Stadium Mirpur Thana Umpires Ian Gould Eng and Paul Reiffel Aus Player of the match Mohammad Hafeez Pak Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field 2nd Match edit 13 March 2012 14 00 D N ScorecardIndia nbsp 304 3 50 overs v nbsp Sri Lanka254 45 1 overs Virat Kohli 108 120 Farveez Maharoof 2 57 10 overs Mahela Jayawardene 78 59 Irfan Pathan 4 32 8 1 overs India won by 50 runsSher e Bangla Cricket Stadium Mirpur Thana Umpires Steve Davis Aus and Ian Gould Eng Player of the match Virat Kohli Ind Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field 3rd Match edit 15 March 2012 14 00 D N ScorecardSri Lanka nbsp 188 45 4 overs v nbsp Pakistan189 4 39 5 overs Kumar Sangakkara 71 92 Aizaz Cheema 4 43 9 overs Umar Akmal 77 72 Suranga Lakmal 2 37 8 overs Pakistan won by 6 wicketsSher e Bangla Cricket Stadium Mirpur Thana Umpires Steve Davis Aus and Paul Reiffel Aus Player of the match Aizaz Cheema Pak Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat Pakistan earned a bonus point 4th Match edit 16 March 2012 14 00 D N ScorecardIndia nbsp 289 5 50 overs v nbsp Bangladesh293 5 49 2 overs Sachin Tendulkar 114 147 Mashrafe Mortaza 2 44 10 overs Tamim Iqbal 70 99 Praveen Kumar 3 56 10 overs Bangladesh won by 5 wicketsSher e Bangla Cricket Stadium Mirpur Thana Umpires Ian Gould Eng and Paul Reiffel Aus Player of the match Shakib Al Hasan Ban Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field Sachin Tendulkar Ind became the first batsman to score 100 centuries in international cricket 19 20 5th Match edit 18 March 2012 14 00 D N ScorecardPakistan nbsp 329 6 50 overs v nbsp India330 4 47 5 overs Nasir Jamshed 112 104 Ashok Dinda 2 47 8 overs Virat Kohli 183 148 Mohammad Hafeez 1 42 9 overs India won by 6 wicketsSher e Bangla Cricket Stadium Mirpur Thana Umpires Steve Davis Aus and Ian Gould Eng Player of the match Virat Kohli Ind Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat Virat Kohli s score was the highest individual innings for a batsman in the Asia Cup 21 22 Virat Kohli s innings was the highest individual innings for a batsman against Pakistan in an ODI 21 22 Nasir Jamshed and Mohammad Hafeez s opening partnership of 224 is a record for Pakistan versus India 21 22 23 This was Sachin Tendulkar s and Praveen Kumar s last ODI match 6th Match edit 20 March 2012 14 00 D N ScorecardSri Lanka nbsp 232 49 5 overs v nbsp Bangladesh212 5 37 1 overs Chamara Kapugedera 62 92 Nazmul Hossain 3 32 8 overs Tamim Iqbal 59 57 Nuwan Kulasekara 2 30 6 overs Bangladesh won by 5 wickets D L method Sher e Bangla Cricket Stadium Mirpur Thana Umpires Steve Davis Aus and Paul Reiffel Aus Player of the match Shakib Al Hasan Ban Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field Rain reduced Bangladesh s innings to 40 overs target revised to 212 by Duckworth Lewis method 24 Bangladesh qualified for the finals for the first time due to head to head record against India and This is the first time that Sri Lanka failed to eligible to Asian cup finals since 1984 25 26 Final edit Main article 2012 Asia Cup Final 22 March 2012 14 00 D N ScorecardPakistan nbsp 236 9 50 overs v nbsp Bangladesh234 8 50 overs Sarfraz Ahmed 46 52 Abdur Razzak 2 26 10 overs Shakib Al Hasan 68 72 Aizaz Cheema 3 46 7 overs Pakistan won by 2 runsSher e Bangla Cricket Stadium Mirpur Thana Umpires Steve Davis Aus and Ian Gould Eng Player of the match Shahid Afridi Pak Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field 27 Pakistan won the Asia Cup for the second time first in 2000 28 Tamim Iqbal became the first Bangladesh player to score four consecutive ODI half centuries 28 Records and statistics editBatting edit Player Team Matches Runs Average SR HS 100s 50sVirat Kohli nbsp India 3 357 119 102 183 2 1Tamim Iqbal nbsp Bangladesh 4 253 63 25 80 831 70 0 4Mohammad Hafeez nbsp Pakistan 4 245 61 25 67 867 105 1 1Shakib Al Hasan nbsp Bangladesh 4 237 59 25 110 233 68 0 3Nasir Jamshed nbsp Pakistan 4 193 48 25 96 02 112 1 1Source ESPNCricinfo 4 Bowling edit Player Team Matches Wickets Runs Average SR BBI ECon 4WUmar Gul nbsp Pakistan 4 9 208 23 111 24 3 58 5 778 0Saeed Ajmal nbsp Pakistan 4 8 161 20 125 28 25 3 27 4 274 0Aizaz Cheema nbsp Pakistan 4 8 196 24 5 24 75 4 43 5 939 1Abdur Razzak nbsp Bangladesh 4 6 154 25 667 40 2 26 3 85 0Mashrafe Mortaza nbsp Bangladesh 4 6 177 29 5 39 833 2 44 4 444 0Source ESPNCricinfo 5 Most Man of the match editPlayer No of Awards nbsp Virat Kohli 2 nbsp Shakib Al Hasan nbsp Mohammad Hafeez 1 nbsp Aizaz Cheema nbsp Shahid Afridi Man of the match in 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Altius Cricket Archived from the original on 8 April 2014 Retrieved 10 March 2012 Asia Cup rescheduled ESPNcricinfo Retrieved 21 December 2011 Shere Bangla National Stadium ESPNcricinfo 21 December 2011 Retrieved 10 December 2011 Asia Cup Tamim out of Bangladesh squad Mortaza returns ESPNcricinfo 5 March 2012 Retrieved 5 March 2012 Asia Cup Sehwag rested Yusuf and Dinda back Yahoo Cricket 29 February 2012 Retrieved 29 February 2012 Asia Cup Nasir Jamshed Sarfraz Ahmed in Pakistan squad ESPNcricinfo 3 March 2012 Retrieved 3 March 2012 Asia Cup Herath left out of Asia Cup squad ESPNcricinfo 2 March 2012 Retrieved 2 March 2012 Thawfeeq Sa adi 14 March 2012 Shaminda Eranga picked to replace Mathews ESPNcricinfo Retrieved 23 March 2012 a b Points Table Asia Cup ESPN Cricinfo ESPNcricinfo Ravindran Siddarth 16 March 2012 Tendulkar scores his 100th international century ESPNcricinfo Retrieved 16 March 2012 Sachin Tendulkar finally hits 100th international century The Times of India 16 March 2012 Retrieved 16 March 2012 a b c Gupta Rajneesh 18 March 2012 Statistical highlights Ind vs Pak Asia Cup Cricketnext in com Archived from the original on 20 March 2012 Retrieved 18 March 2012 a b c Ramakrishnan Madhusudhan 18 March 2012 Kohli s mastery of chases ESPNcricinfo Retrieved 18 March 2012 Purohit Abhishek Kohli demolishes Pakistan in record chase Retrieved 18 March 2012 Cricket Rain delays start of Bangladesh innings v Sri Lanka Reuters 20 March 2012 Retrieved 21 March 2012 Tamim Shakib lead Bangladesh into final Stabroek News 21 March 2012 Retrieved 21 March 2012 Balachandran Kanishkaa 20 March 2012 Team effort takes Bangladesh to historic final ESPNcricinfo Retrieved 21 March 2012 Bangladesh win toss put Pak to bat Hindustan Times 22 March 2012 Archived from the original on 9 May 2013 Retrieved 22 March 2012 a b Ramakrishnan Madhusudhan 22 March 2012 Middle over batting costs Bangladesh ESPNcricinfo Retrieved 23 March 2012 External links editOfficial website 2012 Asia Cup on ESPNcricinfo Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 2012 Asia Cup amp oldid 1209319039, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
