The 2012 Asia Cup (also called Micromax Asia Cup) was an international

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tournament held in Bangladesh from 11 to 22 March 2012. Like the previous event, the tournament featured the four Test-playing nations from Asia:

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and

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. India entered the tournament as the defending 2010 Asia Cup. Pakistan won the tournament by beating Bangladesh in the final by 2 runs.

Background

China was interested in hosting the Asia Cup at

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but the

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decided that

will host the event. It was the third time Bangladesh hosted the event after 1988 and

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. The event was supposed to be held between 1 and 11 March 2012, but was rescheduled to avoid a clash of dates with the ODI tri-series in Australia that also included Sri Lanka and India, which ended on 8 March. The tournament was played from 11 to 22 March.

Venues

All 7 matches were played at the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Mirpur.

Squads

Notes

Points table

Points system: * Win: 4 points * Loss: no points * Tie/No result: 2 points * Bonus point: If a team wins, with a run rate ≥ 1.25 times that of the opposing team, that team gets 1 bonus point. (A team's run rate is number of runs scored divided by number of overs faced, except that a team is treated as having faced the full 50 overs if it loses all of its wickets) If two or more teams have the same number of points, the right to play in the final is determined as follows: * The team having the higher number of wins. * If two or more teams have same number of wins, the team with more wins ''against the other teams who have equal number of points and wins.'' (Head to head) * If still equal, the team with the higher number of bonus points. * If still equal, the team with the greater net run rate.

Matches

Group stage matches

1st Match

''All times local ( UTC+06:00)''

2nd Match

3rd Match

4th Match

5th Match

6th Match

Final

Records and statistics

Batting

Bowling

References

External links

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