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Asian Test Championship 2001-02

Date

8 December – 29 August - 6 March 2001

Location

Sri Lanka and Pakistan

Result

Sri Lanka won the 2001 Asian Test Championship

Teams
Sri Lanka	Bangladesh	Pakistan
Captains
Sanath Jayasuriya	Naimur Rahman	Waqar Younis
Most runs
Kumar Sangakkara (298)	Mohammad Ashraful (140)	Inzamam-ul-Haq (233)
Most wickets
Muttiah Muralitharan (18)	Naimur Rahman (2)	Danish Kaneria (12)

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The 2001 Asian Test Championship was a Test cricket tournament held in Sri Lanka and Pakistan in August 2001. It was a tri-nation series between the national representative cricket teams of the Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan, where India did not participated to the series. The hosts Sri Lanka won the tournament by defeating Pakistan by 8 wickets in the final.

Squads

Sri Lanka	Bangladesh	Pakistan
Sanath Jayasuriya (c) Russel Arnold Marvan Atapattu Charitha Buddhika Kumar Dharmasena Mahela Jayawardene Muttiah Muralitharan Ruchira Perera Ravindra Pushpakumara Thilan Samaraweera Kumar Sangakkara Hashan Tillakaratne Chaminda Vaas Nuwan Zoysa	Naimur Rahman (c) Mohammad Ashraful Habibul Bashar Enamul Haque Hasibul Hossain Mehrab Hossain Aminul Islam Manjural Islam Akram Khan Khaled Mashud Javed Omar Al Sahariar Mohammad Sharif	Waqar Younis (c) Shahid Afridi Wasim Akram Shoaib Akhtar Saeed Anwar Inzamam-ul-Haq Faisal Iqbal Danish Kaneria Rashid Latif Shoaib Malik Abdul Razzaq Mohammad Sami Taufeeq Umar Yousuf Youhana

Matches

1st Test

29–31 August 2001
Scorecard

Bangladesh	v	Pakistan
134 (41.1 overs) Mehrab Hossain 19 (45) Danish Kaneria 6/42 (13 overs)		546 (114.5 overs) Abdul Razzaq 110* (100) Mohammad Sharif 2/110 (24.5 overs)
148 (41.1 overs) Habibul Bashar 56* (97) Danish Kaneria 6/52 (15 overs)

Pakistan won by an innings and 264 runs
Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan
Umpires: Steve Bucknor (WI) and S Venkataraghavan (Ind)
Player of the match: Danish Kaneria (Pak)

Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.
Shoaib Malik and Taufeeq Umar (both Pak) made their Test debuts.
Danish Kaneria took a ten-wicket haul.
Points: Pakistan 24, Bangladesh 0.

2nd Test

6–8 September 2001
Scorecard

Sri Lanka	v	Bangladesh
555/5d (103.3 overs) Marvan Atapattu 201 (259) Naimur Rahman 2/117 (30.3 overs)		90 (36.4 overs) Mohammad Ashraful 26 (53) Muttiah Muralitharan 5/13 (9.4 overs)
		328 (101.3 overs) Mohammad Ashraful 114 (212) Muttiah Muralitharan 5/98 (35.3 overs)

Sri Lanka won by an innings and 137 runs
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo
Umpires: Rudi Koertzen (SA) and Mian Mohammad Aslam (Ban)
Player of the match: Muttiah Muralitharan (SL) and Mohammad Ashraful (Ban)

Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field
Mohammad Ashraful (Ban) and Michael Vandort (Sri) made their Test debuts.
Mohammad Ashraful (Ban) became the youngest ever player to score a Test century on debut.
Points: Sri Lanka 24, Bangladesh 0.

Final

6-10 March 2002
Scorecard

Pakistan	v	Sri Lanka
234 (67 overs) Younis Khan 46 (66) Muttiah Muralitharan 4/55 (25 overs)		528 (139.5 overs) Kumar Sangakkara 230 (327) Mohammad Sami 4/120 (36.5 overs)
325 (101.5 overs) Inzamam-ul-Haq 99 (228) Muttiah Muralitharan 4/72 (34 overs)		33/2 (6.2 overs) Kumar Sangakkara 14* (21) Mohammad Sami 1/15 (3 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets
Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore
Umpires: Athar Zaidi (Pak) and Daryl Harper (Aus)
Player of the match: Kumar Sangakkara (SL)

Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field

References

"Asian Test Championship, 2001-02". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
"Sri Lankans reign supreme". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
"Teenage prodigy steals limelight as Sri Lanka crush Bangladesh". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 March 2017.

External links

Series home at ESPN Cricinfo

International cricket tours of Sri Lanka

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Australia	1982–83 1992 1999 2003–04 2011 2016 2022 2024–25
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Scottish	2011–12 2013–14
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Irish	2020–21
South Africa A	2023

v t e International cricket in 2001
Preceding season: International cricket in 2000–01
May 2001	Pakistan in England
June 2001	India in Zimbabwe NatWest Series Zimbabwe Tri-series Australia women in England
July 2001	Australia in England Sri Lanka Tri-series West Indies in Zimbabwe Australia women in Ireland
August 2001	India in Sri Lanka West Indies in Kenya Asian Test Challenge
Following season: International cricket in 2001–02

v t e International cricket in 2001–02
Preceding season: International cricket in 2001
September 2001	Asian Test Challenge South Africa in Zimbabwe
October 2001	England in Zimbabwe Standard Bank Triangular Tournament New Zealand in Australia Khaleej Times Trophy
November 2001	West Indies in Sri Lanka Zimbabwe in Bangladesh England in India
December 2001	South Africa in Australia Bangladesh in New Zealand LG Abans Triangular Series Zimbabwe in Sri Lanka
January 2002	England women in India Pakistan in Bangladesh Australia Tri-Nation Series Kenya in Sri Lanka Pakistan women in Sri Lanka West Indies against Pakistan in UAE
February 2002	Zimbabwe in India New Zealand in Australia Australia in South Africa New Zealand women in Australia
March 2002	Australia women in New Zealand India women in South Africa India in South Africa
April 2002	Sharjah Cup
Following season: International cricket in 2002

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