#OnThisDay in 1986, Kaushik Amaleen's 4-fer and Arjuna Ranatunga+Aravinda Silva's individual fifties guided Sri Lanka to their maiden Asia Cup win.
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On 14th April 1986, Sri Lanka went on to win the Asia Cup sponsored by Ceylon Tobacco Co by 5 wickets against Pakistan at the SSC. Arjuna Ranatunga was the Man of the Series & received U$ 1,000. The then President of Sri Lanka J.R Jayewardene declared April 15th as a holiday pic.twitter.com/VleL4tgEqM
SRILANKA | PAKISTAN | Bangladesh | ||||
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Duleep Mendis (c) | Imran Khan (c) | Gazi Ashraf (c) | ||||
Brendon Kuruppu (wk) | Mudassar Nazar | Raqibul Hasan | ||||
Roshan Mahanama | Mohsin Khan | Nurul Abedin | ||||
Asanka Gurusinha | Ramiz Raja | Minhajul Abedin | ||||
Roy Dias | Javed Miandad | Shaheedur Rahman | ||||
Arjuna Ranatunga | Qasim Umar | Rafiqul Alam | ||||
Aravinda de Silva | Manzoor Elahi | Golam Faruq | ||||
Ravi Ratnayeke | Abdul Qadir | Jahangir Shah | ||||
Ashantha de Mel | Wasim Akram | Hafizur Rahman (wk) | ||||
Don Anurasiri | Zulqarnain (wk) | Gholam Nousher | ||||
Kaushik Amalean |
Zakir Khan
Final Match : Pakistan vs Srilanka (6 April 1986, Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo)
Pakistan : 191/9 (45 overs) Sri Lanka : 195/5 (42.2 overs) श्रीलंका 5 विकेट से जीता
पाकिस्तान के Top Performer
Javed Miandad 67 (100)
Abdul Qadir 3/32 (9 overs)
श्रीलंका के Top Performer
Arjuna Ranatunga 57 (55)
Kaushik Amalean 4/46 (9 overs)
Player of the match: Javed Miandad |