Cricket's 2008 Asia Cup took place in Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 in June 2008. The six teams which took part in the tournament were Bangladesh, India, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the UAE. This was the first Asia Cup

Asia Cup

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 hosted by Pakistan; previously political tensions between India and Pakistan did not permit Pakistan to host the event. It was broadcast in India by Star Cricket

STAR Cricket

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 and ESPN

ESPN Asia

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 and in Pakistan by Geo Super

GEO Super

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. Sri Lanka won the final against India by 100 runs.

Format

Originally, the ninth version of the Cup was supposed to take place in 2006, however packed international cricket

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 schedules did not allow for the tournament to be held.

Group A consisted of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates.

Group B consisted of India, Hong Kong and Pakistan.

The two groups first had a separate round-robin competition. The top two teams from each group advanced to the Super Fours. There was again a round-robin competition between the teams in the Super Four, the first two from which advanced to the final.

Group A

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	NRR	Points
	2	2	0	0	0	+2.730	4
Bangladesh	2	1	1	0	0	-0.350	2
	2	0	2	0	0	-2.380	0

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Group B

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	NRR	Points
	2	2	0	0	0	+3.190	4
	2	1	1	0	0	+1.170	2
	2	0	2	0	0	-4.110	0

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Super Fours

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	NRR	BP	Points
	3	2	1	0	0	+1.363	2	6
	3	2	1	0	0	+0.250	2	6
	3	2	1	0	0	+0.924	0	4
	3	0	3	0	0	-2.665	0	0

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Final

External links

• Asia Cup tournament review by Cricinfo
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• Asia Cup 2008 - Cricinfo.com