The 1990–91 Asia Cup was the fourth Asia Cup tournament, and was held in India between 25 December 1990, and 4 January 1991. Three teams took part in the tournament: India, Sri Lanka and Asian leading associate member Bangladesh. Pakistan had pulled out of the tournament due to strained political relations with India.

1990–91 Asia Cup
Dates25 December 1990 – 4 January 1991
Administrator(s)Asian Cricket Council
Cricket formatOne Day International
Tournament format(s)Round-robin
Host(s) India
Champions India (3rd title)
Runners-up Sri Lanka
Participants3
Matches4
Player of the seriesNot awarded
Most runsSri Lanka Arjuna Ranatunga (166)
Most wicketsIndia Kapil Dev (9)
1988
1995

The 1990–91 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 in which India beat Sri Lanka by 7 wickets to win its second consecutive (and third in total) Asia Cup.

Squads

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Squads[1]
  India (2)   Sri Lanka (7)   Bangladesh (15)
Mohammad Azharuddin (c) Arjuna Ranatunga (c) Minhajul Abedin (c)
Ravi Shastri Hashan Tillakaratne (wk) Azhar Hossain(vc)
Navjot Singh Sidhu Charith Senanayake Nurul Abedin
Sanjay Manjrekar Asanka Gurusinha Faruk Ahmed
Sachin Tendulkar Aravinda de Silva Athar Ali Khan
Kapil Dev Roshan Mahanama Akram Khan
Manoj Prabhakar Sanath Jayasuriya Enamul Haque
Kiran More (wk) Rumesh Ratnayake Aminul Islam
Venkatapathy Raju Champaka Ramanayake Gholam Nousher
Saradindu Mukherjee Don Anurasiri Nasir Ahmed (wk)
Atul Wassan Jayananda Warnaweera Jahangir Alam Talukdar
Woorkeri Raman Graeme Labrooy Saiful Islam
- Pramodya Wickramasinghe -

Venues

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Kolkata Cuttack Chandigarh
Eden Gardens Barabati Stadium Sector 16 Stadium
Capacity: 67,000 Capacity: 45,000 Capacity: 30,000
1990–91 Asia Cup (India)

Matches

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Group stage

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Team Pld W L T NR Pts RR
  Sri Lanka 2 2 0 0 0 4 4.908
  India 2 1 1 0 0 2 4.222
  Bangladesh 2 0 2 0 0 0 3.663
25 December 1990
Scorecard
Bangladesh  
170/6 (50 overs)
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  India
171/1 (36.5 overs)
Faruk Ahmed 57 (126)
Kapil Dev 2/17 (8 overs)
Navjot Sidhu 104 (109)
Athar Ali Khan 1/23 (6 overs)
India won by 9 wickets
Sector 16 Stadium, Chandigarh
Umpires: V. K. Ramaswamy (Ind) and Piloo Reporter (Ind)
Player of the match: Navjot Sidhu (Ind)

28 December 1990
Scorecard
Sri Lanka  
214 (49.2 overs)
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  India
178 (45.5 overs)
Arjuna Ranatunga 53 (105)
Atul Wassan 3/28 (10 overs)
Mohammad Azharuddin 40 (61)
Rumesh Ratnayake 3/24 (6.5 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 36 runs
Barabati Stadium, Cuttack
Umpires: Subrata Banerjee (Ind) and V. K. Ramaswamy (Ind)
Player of the match: Arjuna Ranatunga (SL)
  • Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.

31 December 1990
Scorecard
Sri Lanka  
249/4 (45 overs)
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  Bangladesh
178/9 (45 overs)
Aravinda de Silva 89 (60)
Azhar Hossain 1/33 (9 overs)
Athar Ali Khan 78* (95)
Sanath Jayasuriya 3/39 (9 overs)
Sri Lanka won by 71 runs
Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Umpires: Subrata Banerjee (Ind) and Piloo Reporter (Ind)
Player of the match: Athar Ali Khan (Ban)

Final

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4 January 1991
Scorecard
Sri Lanka  
204/9 (45 overs)
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  India
205/3 (42.1 overs)
Arjuna Ranatunga 49 (57)
Kapil Dev 4/31 (9 overs)
Sanjay Manjrekar 75* (95)
Arjuna Ranatunga 1/12 (2 overs)
India won by 7 wickets
Eden Gardens, Calcutta
Umpires: V. K. Ramaswamy (Ind) and Piloo Reporter (Ind)
Player of the match: Mohammad Azharuddin (Ind)

Statistics

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Most runs

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Player Matches Innings NO Runs Average SR HS 100 50
  Arjuna Ranatunga 3 3 1 166 83.00 73.45 64* 0 2
  Navjot Sidhu 3 3 1 144 72.00 81.45 104* 1 0
  Aravinda de Silva 3 3 0 126 42.00 120.00 89 0 1
  Athar Ali Khan 2 2 1 122 122.00 71.34 78* 0 1
  Sanjay Manjrekar 3 3 2 112 112.00 65.88 75* 0 1
Source: Cricinfo[4]

Most wickets

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Player Matches Innings Wickets Overs Ave. Econ. BBI 4WI 5WI
  Kapil Dev 3 3 9 26.2 10.66 3.64 4/31 1 0
  Atul Wassan 3 3 5 27.00 20.80 3.85 3/28 0 0
  Rumesh Ratnayake 2 2 4 14.5 14.50 3.91 3/24 0 0
  Sanath Jayasuriya 3 3 3 20.00 30.33 4.55 2/39 0 0
Source: Cricinfo[5]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ ESPNcricinfo Asia Cup page ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved on 22 September 2021
  2. ^ a b "Asia Cup 1990-91, third match, Bangladesh v Sri Lanka". Wisden. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  3. ^ India v Sri Lanka, Asia Cup 1990/91 (Final) at CricketArchive (subscription required)
  4. ^ "Asia Cup, 1990/91 Cricket Team Records & Stats". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Asia Cup, 1990/91 Cricket Team Records & Stats". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
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