2014 Asia Cup


The 2014 Asia Cup was the twelfth edition of the Asia Cup cricket tournament. The tournament was held in Bangladesh from 25 February to 8 March 2014. Pakistan were the defending champions, having won the previous tournament. The tournament included the four Asian test-playing nations, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka; and ICC Asian Associate member Afghanistan. This was the first 50-over tournament in which Afghanistan took part. Ten league matches were played along with the final. The title sponsors of the tournament were Arise India and it was powered by Cycle Agarbathis. Sri Lanka Beat Pakistan in the final to become Asia Cup champions for the fifth time.

Venues

Match officials

There was one umpire from Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka each. There were three umpires from Bangladesh.
The two ICC Match Referees were from England and New Zealand.
;Umpires from neutral countries:
;Umpires from participating countries:
;Match Referees:
Notes
  1. The squad for India had MS Dhoni as captain but he was ruled out due to injury and was replaced with Virat Kohli as captain and Dinesh Karthik as wicket-keeper.
  2. Shakib Al Hasan suffered a match ban, hence he stayed out of the first two matches against India and Afghanistan.
  3. Tamim Iqbal was ruled out due to injury from the Bangladesh squad.
  4. Mashrafe Mortaza was ruled out of the Bangladesh squad due to injury after the first match against India.
  5. Sohag Gazi was ruled out of the Bangladesh squad due to injury after the second match against Afghanistan.

    Schedule

Points table

Source: Cricinfo
Team
4400+0.77317
4310+0.34913
4220+0.4509
4130−1.2784
4040−0.2590

Qualified for final

Fixtures and results

Final

Records and statistics

Batting

Source: Cricinfo
PlayerNatMatchesRunsNOAve.SRHS100504s6s
Lahiru Thirimanne5279055.8079.9410220312
Umar Akmal5253084.33110.48102*12236
Kumar Sangakkara5248049.6096.4912262
Ahmed Shehzad5228045.6080.0010311301
Anamul Haque4227056.7568.1610011138

Bowling

Source: Cricinfo
PlayerNatMatchesWicketsOversRunsEcon.Ave.BBI4WI5WI
Lasith Malinga41134.51895.4217.185/5202
Saeed Ajmal51149.02024.1218.363/2600
Ajantha Mendis3926.01264.8414.004/6010
Ravichandran Ashwin4939.41674.2118.553/3100
Mohammed Shami4937.22306.1625.554/5010

Achievements

Match 1
Match 2
Match 3
Match 4
Match 5
Match 6
Match 7
Match 8
Match 9
Match 10
Final