Asia Cup 2023

Asia Cup-2023 is being organized by the Asian Cricket Council and hosted by Pakistan and Sri Lanka Jointly from 30 August to 17 September 2023. For the first time in Asia Cup history, two countries are hosting Asia Cup jointly. It is pertinent to note that when the ACC Committee selected Pakistan as the host of the Asia Cup for 2023, India was initially reluctant to participate in the tournament as all the matches were to be organized in Pakatan.

ASIA Cup without India -Pakistan matches do not seem very interesting for the cricket lover. To make the India -Pakistan Matches happen, the ACC committee decided to go for joint hosting with Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It is a 50-over ODI  tournament.

You can watch the live match between India and Pakistan on 02 September 2023 @ Clicking here

Teams in the Current edition of the Asia Cup 2023:

The current edition of the Asia Cup 2023 began with the inaugural match between Pakistan and Nepal on 30 August 2023 and Pakistan beat Nepal with a huge margin of more than 200 runs. If we talk about it more preciously, it is 238 runs.  It is to be noted that Nepal is the country that is participating first time in the Asia Cup.

The total team (6) to participate in the Current edition of the Asia Cup 2023 is as follows:

Total Matches and Schedule for Asia Cup 2023:  

A total of 13 matches are to be played at different international cricket stadium venues in two countries between 30 August to 17 September 2023 and most of the matches India will play outside of Pakistan. The format for the Asia Cup -2023 is group and knockout stages. The schedule of matches is tabulated below:

Winner so far of Asia Cup:

India is the country that won the most Asia Cup trophies (6) in the ODI format and (1) in T20 format. Sri Lanka is the country that won the second-highest Asia Cup trophy in ODI. The brief of the trophy won by the countries, who had been captain along with a format for a different year from 1984 are as follows:

Year	Winner	Captain	Format	Country Flag
1984	India	Sunil Gavaskar	ODI
1986	Sri Lanka	Duleep Mendis	ODI
1988	India	Mohammad Azharuddin	ODI
1990-91	India	Mohammad Azharuddin	ODI
1995	India	Mohammad Azharuddin	ODI
1997	Sri Lanka	Arjuna Ranatunga	ODI
2000	Pakistan	Moin Khan	ODI
2004	Sri Lanka	Marvan Atapattu	ODI
2008	Sri Lanka	Mahela Jayawardene	ODI
2010	India	MS Dhoni	ODI
2012	Pakistan	Misbah-ul-Haq	ODI
2014	Sri Lanka	Angelo Mathews	T20
2016	India	MS Dhoni	T20
2018	India	Rohit Sharma	ODI
2022	Sri Lanka	Dasun shanaka	T20

Most runs made in Asia Cup till 01.09.2023:             

 Sanath Jayasuriya, a great batsman, and wicketkeeper held the title of making the most (1220) runs in an Asia Cup in the ODI format, and King Kohli is the most run-making batsman in T20 format.

Most wickets taken in Asia Cup till 01.09.2023:

One of the great spinners in the cricket world, Muttiah Muralitharan has taken the most wickets (30) in an Asia Cup in the One Day International (ODI) cricket format, however, Bhuvneshwar Kumar from India holds the title of taking the highest wickets (13) in T20 format of Asia cup.

If we look at the year “2023” is very important for cricket lovers as there are many international and mega cricketing events taking place in the year 2023. The World Cup is going to happen after Asia Cup

A brief of Asia Cup and Regulating Body

Asia Cup is a cricket tournament administrated by an organization known as the Asian Cricket Council. They are essentially hosted by one of the member countries on an ACC rotation basis. Member countries of ACC are as follows:

ACC Members with ICC Full Membership (5)

ACC Members with ICC Associate Membership (18)

ACC Members without ICC Membership (2)

Source of the above information: https://asiancricket.org/ and https://www.cricbuzz.com/