Records and Stats related to Asia Cup cricket


Asia Cup 2012 is about to begin with a match between Pakistan and Bangladesh. It will be good to have a look at the past records and stats. Here is provided the records and stats related to Asia Cup cricket tournaments.

Asia's most prestigious International cricket tournament Asia Cup 2012 is about to begin. In the past tournaments we have seen a lots of good cricket in this tournaments. A number of good batting and bowling performances has been happened in this tournaments. Records and Statistics are the perfect way to see who has done well and who has done bad. We are going to have a look at the records and statistics of Asia Cup Tournament.

India has won this tournament five times while Sri Lanka is second with four times winning this tournaments. India is also the winner of the last edition of this tournament. Here are some interesting stats related to this tournament -

  • Most number of times Winner - India (5 times)
  • Highest Total - Pakistan (385/7 against Bangladesh)
  • Lowest Total - Bangladesh (87 against Pakistan)
  • Top Score - Younis Khan (144 against Hong Kong)
  • Highest Batting Strike Rate - Shahid Afridi (388 runs with strike rate of 139.06)
  • Highest Batting Average - Navjot Singh Sidhu (530 runs with an average of 66.25)
  • Most number of Hundreds - Sanath Jayasuriya (6 hundreds in 24 Matches)
  • Best Bowling Figure - Ajantha Mendis (6/13 against India)
  • Best Bowling Strike Rate - Imran Farhat (5 wickets with a strike rate of 14.4)
  • Most 4-wickets in an inning - Ajantha Mendis (3 times)


Most number of Runs in Asia Cup

Sanath Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka has dominated in almost every batting record in Asia Cup. He is at the top in the list of most number of runs i Asia Cup and also has scored most number of centuries (6 centuries) in Asia Cup. Sachin Tendulkar is second in the list of scoring most number of runs.
  • Sanath Jayasuriya - 1220 runs in 25 Matches
  • Sachin Tendulkar - 799 runs in 20 Matches
  • Arjun Ranatunga - 741 runs in 19 Matches
  • Kumar Sangakara - 685 runs in 16 Matches
  • Arvind de Silva - 645 runs in 24 Matches
  • Marvyn Atapattu - 642 runs in 13 Matches
  • Inzamam-ul-Haq - 591 runs in 15 Matches
  • Shoaib Malik - 575 runs in 12 Matches
  • Navjot Singh Sidhu - 530 runs in 14 Matches
  • Sourav Ganguly - 518 runs in 13 Matches

Most number of Wickets in Asia Cup

Bowling records are also dominated by Sri Lanakn bowlers with Maralitharan topping the list of most number of wickets in Asia Cup with 30 wickets. Another Sri Lankan Chaminda Vaas is second in this list.
  • Mutthiah Muralitharan - 30 wickets in 24 Matches
  • Chaminda Vaas - 23 wickets in 19 Matches
  • Sanath Jayasuriya - 22 wickets in 25 Matches
  • Ajantha Mendis - 17 wickets in 5 Matches
  • Abdul Qadir - 17 wickets in 8 Matches
  • Sachin Tendulkar - 17 wickets in 20 Matches
  • Irfan Pathan - 17 wickets in 9 Matches
  • Wasim Akram - 16 wickets in 12 Matches
  • Abdul Razzaq - 16 wickets in 11 Matches
  • Kapil Dev - 15 wickets in 7 Matches

Wicketkeeping and Fielding Records in Asia Cup

Here are the fielding and wicket-keeping record. Kumar Snagakara has most number of dismissals while Jayawardene is having taken most number of catches in Asia Cup.
  • Most number of dismissals:
    • Kumar Sangakara - 31 dismissals in 16 Matches
    • Mahendra Singh Dhoni - 22 dismissals in 10 Matches
    • Moin Khan - 17 dismissals in 14 Matches
    • DSBP Kuruppu - 14 dismissals in 9 Matches
    • Kaluwitharana - 11 dismissals in 8 Matches
  • Most number of Catches:
    • Mahela Jayawardene - 13 catches in 20 Matches
    • Arvind de Silva - 12 catches in 24 Matches
    • Mutthiah Muralitharan - 10 catches in 24 Matches
    • Younis Khan - 9 catches in 10 Matches
    • Roshan Mahanama - 8 catches in 16 Matches


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