Sri Lanka retained the Asia Cup after beating India by a huge 100 run margin in the final at Karachi’s National Stadium.
Sanath Jayasuriya scored yet another century against the Indians leading the way for his team with a spanking 125, his second ton in the tournament and thus helped set the target of 273 for [...]

Pakistan crushed a hapless Bangladesh team by ten wickets in the inconsequential last semis league match in the Asia Cup after paceman Abdur Rauf took a career-best 3/24 in Karachi on Friday.
The 29-year-old rattled Bangladesh’s top order to help Pakistan bowl out the visitors for just 115 in 38.2 overs after the tourists won the [...]

India beat Sri Lanka by six wickets to gain two valuable points and thus entered the final of the tournament and will now play Sri Lanka in the replay of the final of the previous edition in 2004, which Sri Lanka had won.
Batting first, Sri Lanka put up a fighting 308 in their allotted fifty [...]

Pakistan batted with supreme authority in a must-win game, and beat India by eight wickets chasing 309, and avenged the thrashing India had given them in the previous game, where they chased 300 runs in just 42 overs.
The home team needed to win this Karachi fixture by a big margin to stay alive in the [...]

Sri Lanka destroyed Bangladesh in the semis league of the Asia Cup game at Karachi’s National Stadium and won their fourth consecutive match in the tournament to enter the finals.
Birthday boy Sanath Jayasuriya smashed a 55-ball hundred as his opening partner Kumar Sangakkara scored his third century in four games in the tournament, while Muralitharan’s [...]

Winning the toss and electing to bat first, the Sri Lankans lost Jayasuriya early but then Udawatte and Jayawardene came together and scored fifties each, getting 67 and 61 respectively, but then they both got out trying to push the scoring rate. Contributions from the lower middle order propelled them to 29o in 50 overs.
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Pakistan chose to bat first after winning the toss and decided to follow the same strategy as in the Kitply cup final, as the two openers Salman Butt and Shoaib Malik batted cautiously and then started building momentum. The Indians bowled a tight line but could not break through inspite of best efforts and thus, [...]

Lifted by a 116 run opening stand in just 15 overs, Sri Lanka made 357 runs in their allotted fifty overs as they started their season with a win against Bangladesh.
Bangladesh won the toss and surprisingly chose to field first on a flat track. Jayasuriya then smacked 72 off just 47 balls as he continued [...]

Indian captain Dhoni won the toss and had no qualms abut batting first on a placid wicket. Sehwag and Gambhir started as if they were still playing the IPL, hitting the hapless Hong Kong bowling for 127 runs in just 14 overs. Sehwag was especially severe on the bowling as he smashed 78 off just [...]

After wining the toss, Bangladesh elected to bat on a flat Lahore pitch and captain Mohammed Ashraful led the way with a stroke filled century scoring 109 runs. He came at his new number three position and was ably supported first by opener Tamim Iqbal (40 runs) and then by Raqibul Hassan who made 83, [...]