2012 Asia Cup
The 2012 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.
Background
China was interested to host the Asia Cup at Guangzhou 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.
Venues
All the 7 matches were played at Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur.| City | Venue | Capacity | Matches |
| Mirpur, Dhaka | Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium | 26,000 | 7 |
Match Officials
Umpires from neutral countries:- - Ian Gould
- - Paul Reiffel
- - Steve Davis
Match Referee:
- - David Boon
Squads
Points table
| Pos | Team | |||||||||||
| 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | – | 780 | 759 | ||
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 746 | 762 | ||
| 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 923 | 876 | ||
| 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 653 | 705 |
Points system:
- 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.
- 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.
- If still equal, the team with the higher number of bonus points.
- If still equal, the team with the greater net run rate.
Matches
Group stage matches
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