Asia Cup Team India vaccinated when Panditji washed Pakistan, Asia Cup started 41 years ago

New Delhi2025 The team has been announced for Asia, the teams have started gearing up and have also started peeping into their past. India’s dominance in the Asia Cup has been from the beginning, especially the first tournament that was played in 1984, 41 years ago. India was freshly elevated by winning the 1983 World Cup, the only difference was that the captaincy had come into the hands of Sunil Gavaskar in place of Kapil Dev.

The first Asia Cup was held in 1984. On 13 April 1984, Team India defeated their arch-rivals Pakistan and captured the title in the final. In this way Team India won the first Asia Cup. India defeated Pakistan by 54 runs in the final. This victory was also important because without Kapil Dev’s Indian team won the tournament.

India captured first Asia Cup

In view of the increasing popularity of ODI cricket, the Asia Cup was organized for the first time in Sharjah. The final match was played between India and Pakistan. Team India defeated Pakistan by 54 runs and captured the title. Surinder Khanna Player of the Match was adjudged for the best game. He scored a brilliant 56 runs. During this, he had hit 3 fours and 2 sixes .. India won the toss and decided to bat first. Surinder Khanna and Ghulam Parkar landed at the crease to bat. Both batsmen gave Team India a strict start. After this, Dilip Vengsarkar landed at the crease to bat. But he was dismissed on a personal score of 14 runs.

After Vengsarkar’s dismissal, Sandeep Patil, who came to the crease, took the front. Sandeep and Surinder took the team’s score to 110 runs. But Surinder Khanna was dismissed on this score. Now the entire responsibility had come on Sandeep Patil. In this, Patil got full support of Sunil Gavaskar. Both the players batted brilliantly and after that no wickets were allowed to fall. Team India scored 188 runs after losing 4 wickets in this 46 -over match. Sandeep Patil was not out for 43 runs and Sunil Gavaskar 36 runs.

Pakistan trapped in spin-ke trap

The Pakistani team, which came out to chase the target of 189 runs, did not have a good start. Team India bowlers kept the grip on Pakistan from the beginning. Team India got the first success quickly. When Pakistan’s score was 23 runs, Sadat Ali was dismissed by Ravi Shastri. After this, Mohshin Khan and Mudassar Nazar took the front. But both of them could not do anything special. When the team’s score was 69 runs, Mohshin Khan was also dismissed. After this, Pakistan continued to get shocks and the entire team was all out on the score of 134 runs. In this way, Team India won this match by 54 runs. Mohshin Khan scored the highest 35 runs for Pakistan.

Ravi Shastri and Roger Binny bowled brilliantly. Both dismissed 3-3 players from Pakistan. In the first Asia Cup final, Surinder Khanna was adjudged Player of the Match for batting brilliantly. Apart from India and Pakistan, Sri Lankan team took part in this tournament. The first match of the tournament was played between Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Fast bowlers like Chetan Sharma and Manoj Prabhakar got India from this tournament.