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In 1984, the first Asia cup cricket tournament was held. However, the tournament was established in 1983 with the motive of promote goodwill amongst all Asian countries. The tournament has seen many ups and downs and in three decades only ten contests are held.
India has entered in final eighth time out of ten and won five titles yet. The recent winner is also India. The Sri Lanka has four titles and Pakistan has only one title of Asia cup tournament. Most run scorer of all Asia cup tournament is Sanath Jayasuriya as 1209 run and most wicket taker is Muttiah Muralitharan with the number of 27. The first series was held in 1984 at Sharjah and final was won by India over Sri Lanka. Second final match of ACC was won by host Sri Lanka by defeating Pakistan in 1986.
After 2nd tournament, India won three asia cup final match regularly also over Sri Lanka in 1988, 1990 and 1995 respectively. That was held in Bangladesh, India and UAE respectively. Sixth tournament won by Sri Lanka by defeating Pakistan in 1997and Sri Lanka is also the host nation of that tournament. Pakistan won only one final in 2000 over Sri Lanka by 39 runs that were held in Bangladesh.
In 2004 and 2008 Asia Cup Cricket tournament, Sri Lanka made their victory regularly over India. Sri Lanka and Pakistan was hosted that two match respectively. The last match played in 2010 won by India over host country Sri Lanka.
Asia Cup Cricket Final Match 2013
The 2013 Asia cup cricket tournament will start on March 12, 2013 in Bangladesh. Total of four Asian teams are taken part such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and also Bangladesh, the host nation. There will be six round matches played during tournament and final match will be played on March 22, 2013. All matches will be held at Sher-e-Bangla stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka. Those two teams will get maximum point that will be played in final.
The opening match will be held on 12th March amongst Bangladesh and Pakistan and another day of match will be happened between India and Sri Lanka. Recent Champion is India and it is difficult to say, which team capture the title because all Asian team is in their best form. Which team will be performed best that hold the title and it is prediction.
The host team Bangladesh has not won any title of Asia Cup and they also expect to set possession. However, Pakistan could descend with the wish of repeating history because the team has only one title of Asia Cup.
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