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The Asia Cup is an international cricket tournament. It was conceived in 1983 when the Asian Cricket Council was created as a measure to promote goodwill between Asian countries. It was originally scheduled to be held every two years. The first edition was held in 1984 in Sharjah, UAE where the council's offices were based (until 1995).
The first edition of the Asia Cup was held in 1984 in Sharjah, UAE, the location of the headquarters of the newly formed Asian Cricket Council. The first match was Pakistan vs the new ICC member Sri Lanka. Mohsin Khan faced the first ball of the tournament. The final was played between India and Pakistan and the cup was lifted by India.
The second edition was held in Sri Lanka, the first multi-national cricket series to be held there. India had pulled out of the tournament due to soured relations with Sri Lanka after a controversial series in Sri Lanka the previous year in which the umpires allegedly made wrong decisions to favour the home side leading to Sri Lanka winning their first ever test match. Sri Lanka lifted the cup beating Pakistan.
The third edition was held in Bangladesh and won by India defeating Sri Lanka in the final.
The fourth edition was held in India. Pakistan had pulled out of the tournament which helped India retain its hold on the Cup defeating Sri Lanka in the final.
The fifth edition took the series back to Sharjah after 11 years. India and Sri Lanka made it to the final by virtue of better runrate than Pakistan as all three teams had equal points after preliminary round. For the third successive time in the Asia Cup, India defeated Sri Lanka in the final.
For the fourth consecutive time, it was India and Sri Lanka in the final but this time a confident Sri Lanka beat India easily.
Asia Cup 2000 was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh and won by Pakistan defeating Sri Lanka in the final.
The eighth edition of Asia Cup will be played in Sri Lanka this month after a gap of 4 years.
Group A
Group B
India won
India vs Sri Lanka :- Sri Lanka Won by 24 runs. Sanath Jayasuriya Man of the Series.
| Bangladeshi squad for Asia Cup 2004 | |
| Habibul Bashar (captain) | Javed Omar | Rajin Saleh | Faisal Hossain | Mohammad Ashraful | Alok Kapali | Mushfiqur Rahman | Khaled Mahmud | Khaled Mashud | Mohammad Rafique | Manjural Islam Rana | Tapash Baisya | Tareq Aziz | Abdur Razzaq |
| Indian squad for Asia Cup 2004 | |
| Saurav Ganguly (Captain) | Rahul Dravid (Vice-captain) | Sachin Tendulkar | Virender Sehwag | V.V.S. Laxman | Yuvraj Singh | Mohammed Kaif | Parthiv Patel | Anil Kumble | Harbhajan Singh | Zaheer Khan | Lakshmipathy Balaji | Irfan Pathan | Ashish Nehra |
| Hong Kong squad for Asia Cup 2004 | |
| Rahul Sharma (captain) | Manoj Cheruparambil | Ilyas Gul | Tim Smart | Tabarak Dar | Alexander French | Najeeb Amar | Roy Lamsam | Nasir Hameed | Sher Lama | Khalid Khan | Nadeem Ahmed | Afzaal Haider | Graeme Jardine |
| Sri Lankan squad for Asia Cup 2004 | |
| Marvan Atapattu (captain) | Mahela Jayawardene | Sanath Jayasuriya | Saman Jayantha | Kumar Sangakkara | Tillakaratne Dilshan Thilina Kandamby | Upul Chandana | Chaminda Vaas | Nuwan Zoysa | Muttiah Muralitharan | Avishka Gunawardane | Lasith Malinga Farveez Maharoof |
| Pakistani squad for Asia Cup 2004 | |
| Inzamam-ul-Haq (captain) | Yousuf Youhana | Imran Farhat | Yasir Hameed | Imran Nazir | Younis Khan | Moin Khan | Abdul Razzaq | Shoaib Malik | Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan | Mohammad Sami | Shoaib Akhtar | Shabir Ahmed | Danish Kaneria |
| UAE squad for Asia Cup 2004 | |
| Khuram Khan (captain) | Arshad Ali | Abdul Rehman | Ali Asad Abbas | Asghar Ali | Asim Saeed | Fahad Usman | Mohammad Tauqeer | Mohammad Fawad | Naeemuddin | Ramveer Rai | Rizwan Ahmed | Sameer Zia | Syed Maqsood |
It is to be held every 2 years from 2004 onwards.
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