The 14th edition of the Asia Cup will be the one of its kind since it will be the first time since 1984 that the biannual tournament will be played in the Twenty20 format.
The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has decided that from this edition onward, the tournament will be played in the same format as the World Cup that follows it, i.e., T20Is before the World Twenty20s and 50-over format before the ODI World Cups.
This will be the 14th edition of the tournament that was instituted in 1984 and the fifth time being played in Bangladesh. India and Sri Lanka have won the trophy for the most number of times - 5, followed by Pakistan who have won the title twice. Bangladesh are yet to lay their hands on the Asia Cup silverware.
Defending Champions
Sri Lanka
Results
Year Winner Runner-Up Host Nation
1984 India Sri Lanka U A E
1986 Sri Lanka Pakistan Sri Lanka
1988 India Sri Lanka Bangladesh
1990-91 India Sri Lanka India
1993 Cancelled Pakistan
1995 India Sri Lanka U A E
1997 Sri Lanka India Sri Lanka
2000 Pakistan Sri Lanka Bangladesh
2004 Sri Lanka India Sri Lanka
2008 Sri Lanka India Pakistan
2010 India Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
2012 Pakistan Bangladesh Bangladesh
2014 Sri Lanka Pakistan Bangladesh
Venue
All matches will be played at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka,Bangladesh
Fixtures
Qualifying Stage
February 19: Afghanistan v UAE
February 19: Hong Kong v Oman
February 20: Hong Kong v UAE
February 20: Afghanistan v Hong Kong
February 21: Afghanistan v Oman
February 22: UAE v Oman
Main Draw
February 24: Bangladesh vs India
February 25: Sri Lanka vs TBD
February 26: Bangladesh vs TBD
February 27: India vs Pakistan
February 28: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka
February 29: Pakistan vs TBD
March 1: India vs Sri Lanka
March 2: Bangladesh vs Pakistan
March 3: India vs TBD
March 4: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka
March 6: Final
SQUADS
Pakistan
Shahid Afridi (c), Khurrum Manzoor, Mohammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal (wk), Sarfaraz Ahmed, Babar Azam, Ifthikar Ahmed, Emad Wasim, Anwar Ali, Mohammad Irfan, Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Aamir, Mohammad Nawaz, Rumman Raees
India
MS Dhoni (c/wk), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Harbhajan Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Ashish Nehra, Pawan Negi, Mohammed Shami, Hardik Pandya
Bangaldesh
Mashrafe Mortaza (c), Soumya Sarkar, Imrul Kayes, Mohammad Mithun, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Sabbir Rahman, Mahmudullah Riyad, Nasir Hossain, Nurul Hasan, Arafat Sunny, Mustafizur Rahman, Al-Amin Hossain, Taskin Ahmed and Abu Hider
Sri Lanka
Lasith Malinga (Captain), Angelo Mathews (Vice Captain), Dinesh Chandimal, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Niroshan Dickwella, Shehan Jayasuriya, Milinda Siriwardena, Dasun Shanaka, Chamara Kapugedara, Nuwan Kulasekera, Dushmantha Chameera, Thisara Perera, Sachithra Senanayake, Rangana Herath, Jeffrey Vandersay
Hong Kong
Tanwir Afzal (c), Aizaz Khan, Anshy Rath, Babar Hayat, Christopher Carter (wk), Mark Chapman, Haseeb Amjad, Adil Mehmood, Nadeem Ahmed, Nizakat Khan, Kinchit Shah, Ninad Shah, Tanveer Ahmed, Waqas Barkat, Waqas Khan
Oman
Sultan Ahmed (c/wk), Aamir Kaleem (vc), Aaqib Sulehri, Adnan Ilyas, Amir Ali, Munis Ansari, Bilal Khan, Jatinder Singh, Ajay Lalcheta, Mehran Khan, Rajeshkumar Ranpura, Sufyan Mehmood, Vaibhav Wategaonkar, Zeeshan Maqsood, Zeeshan Siddiqui, Khawar Ali, Mohammad Nadeem, Yousuf Al Balushi
Afghanistan
Asghar Stanikzai (c), Amir Hamzam, Dawlat Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Karim Sadiq, Mohammad Nabi, Mohammad Shahzad (wk), Najibullah Zadran, Noor Ali Zadran, Rashid Khan, Samiullah Shenwari, Shafiqullah, Shapoor Zadran, Usman Ghani, Yamin Ahmadzai, Fareed Ahmad, Mirwais Ashraf, Najeeb Tarakai, Rokhan Barakzai
UAE
Amjad Javed (c), Swapnil Patil (vc), Ahmed Raza, Fahad Tariq, Farhan Ahmed, Mohammad Naveed, Mohammad Shahzad, Mohammad Usman, Muhammad Kaleem, Qadeer Ahmed,Rohan Mustafa, Saqlain Haider, Shaiman Anwar, Usman Mushtaq. Zaheer Maqsood
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