Asia Cup Winner List

Asia Cup Winner List

The Asia Cup is the only continental championship in cricket and the winning team becomes the champions of Asia.

Asia Cup- Historical Background

The Asian Cricket Council Asia Cup is a men’s One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket tournament. The Asia Cricket Council after being established in 1983 started hosting the Asia Cup from 1984 onwards as a measure to promote goodwill between Asian countries. It was originally scheduled to be held every two years.

2009 onwards the Asia Cup was bound to be held biennially under the purview of Asian Cricket Council and all the matches were to be considered as One Day Internationals.

Though the Asian Cricket Council was downsized in 2015 and it was announced by the ICC that Asia Cup events from 2016 would be played on a rotation basis between One Day International and Twenty20 International format, on the basis of the format of upcoming world events. As a result, the 2016 was the first edition played in the T20I format and functioned as a preparatory tournament ahead of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20.

Though Pakistan was the original host of Asia Cup in 2020 which was postponed till 2022 due to Covid outbreak, Sri Lanka was given the hosting responsibility due to tense situation between India and Pakistan on geo-political front which might have forced India to opt out of the tournament.

To avert this situation Asia Cricket Council decided to handover the hosting rights to Sri Lanka but as Sri Lanka was facing deep crises in the country, the tournament was held in UAE under the banner of Sri Lanka being the official host.

15^th Edition of Asia Cup was won by Sri Lanka after they defeated Pakistan in the final showing a stunning comeback after being hammered by Afghanistan in the opening match of the tournament. Sri Lanka saw a fairy tale rise in the tournament and won 5 consecutive T20s to make it to the top after being denied a direct entry to the T20 World Cup scheduled to be held in Australia from October onwards.

Asia Cup Winner List (1984-2022)

India is the most successful team in the tournament with seven titles (six ODI and one T20I). Sri Lanka is the second most successful team, with six latest being the Asia Cup 2022. Sri Lanka has played the most Asia Cups (14) followed by India, Pakistan and Bangladesh who have played 13 each. Bangladesh have never won any Asia Cup till date but they have played final 3 times.

Asia Cup FAQs

1. Which team has won the maximum number of Asia Cup?

Ans. India has won the maximum number of Asia Cup.

2. Which team won the inaugural edition of Asia Cup?

Ans. India won the inaugural edition of Asia Cup in 1984.

3. Which country won the 15^th edition of Asia Cup?

Ans. Sri Lanka won the 15^th edition of Asia Cup in UAE.

4. Which country was the official host of 15^th edition of Asia Cup?

Ans. Sri Lanka was the official host of 15^th edition of Asia Cup.

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