10 Lines on Asia Cup: Team India won the Asia Cup for the maximum time i.e. 7 times in 15 editions. Sri Lanka 6 times and Pakistan 2 times won the Asia Cup.
Asia Cup is one of the most popular cricket tournaments in Asia. Asia Cup is conducted over a gap of two years by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
10 Lines on Asia Cup for Kids
- The Asia Cup is a men’s One Day International (50 overs) and Twenty20 International cricket (20 overs) tournament.
- It was established in 1983 when the Asian Cricket Council was founded as a measure to promote goodwill between Asian countries.
- It was originally scheduled to be held every two years.
- The Asia Cup is the only continental championship in cricket and the winning team becomes the champion of Asia.
- It alternates every 2-years between ODI and T20I formats.
- The first Asia Cup was held in 1984 in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates where the council’s offices were based (until 1995).
- The ICC has ruled that all games played in the Asia Cup have official ODI status.
- The first edition of the Rothmans Asia Cup was held in 1984 in Sharjah, UAE.
- Sri Lanka was the host for the second edition in 1986.
- The 2023 Asia Cup will be the 16th edition of the Asia Cup.
10 Lines on Asia Cup for Students
- The matches to be played as One Day Internationals (ODIs), and it will be jointly hosted by Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
- The tournament will be played by 6 teams.
- It is scheduled to be held in August and September 2023
- Sri Lanka are the defending champions.
- It will be the first Asia Cup to be co-hosted by multiple countries; four matches will be played in Pakistan, and the remaining nine matches will be played in Sri Lanka.
- The groups and format of the tournament were announced on 9th January 2023.
- The six teams split into two groups of three. A total of 13 matches will be played, which includes six league matches, six Super 4 matches, and a final.
- A total of eight umpires were appointed to officiate the matches, four of them are from the participating nations while rest of the four are neutral umpire .
- Pakistan and Sri Lanka will host the Asia Cup cricket tournament in 2023.
- Board of Control for Cricket in India Secretary Jay Sah confirmed that India and Pakistan are in the same group for ODI Asia Cup 2023.
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