2006 Women's Asia Cup

Women's One Day International Asia Cup
Administrator(s)Asian Cricket Council
Cricket formatOne Day International
Tournament format(s)Round-robin
Host(s)India
Champions India (3rd title)
Runners-up Sri Lanka
Participants3
Matches7
Player of the seriesIndia Thirush Kamini
Sri Lanka Dedunu Silva
Most runsSri Lanka Dedunu Silva (163)[1]
Most wicketsIndia Thirush Kamini (8)[2]
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The 2006 Women's Asia Cup was the third Asian Cricket Council Women's Asia Cup. The three teams which took part in the women's One Day International tournament were India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It was held between 13 and 21 December 2006 in India.[3] All the matches of the tournament were played at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur.[4] The tournament was won by India, defeating Sri Lanka by eight wickets in the final.[5]

Squads

Squads[6]
 India  Sri Lanka  Pakistan
Mithali Raj (c) Shashikala Siriwardene (c) Urooj Mumtaz (c)
Sulakshana Naik (wk) Dilani Manodara (wk) Batool Fatima (wk)
Thirush Kamini Dedunu Silva Tasqeen Qadeer
Anjum Chopra Chamari Polgampola Bismah Maroof
Hemlata Kala Suwini de Alwis Sana Javed
Rumeli Dhar Hiroshi Abeysinghe Sajjida Shah
Reema Malhotra Eshani Kaushalya Sana Mir
Amita Sharma Inoka Galagedara Qanita Jalil
Jhulan Goswami Sandamali Dolawatte Maryam Butt
Nooshin Al Khadeer Sumudu Fernando Asmavia Iqbal
Preeti Dimri Sripali Weerakkody Sabahat Rasheed
Rajeshwari Goyal Sanduni Abeywickrema Khursheed Jabeen
Devika Palshikar Randika Galhenage (wk) Shumaila Mushtaq
Sunetra Paranjpe Nirosha Kumari Nain Abidi

Group stage table

Asia Cup 2006
Pos Team Pld W L NR Pts NRR
1  India 4 4 0 0 16 0.965
2  Sri Lanka 4 2 2 0 8 0.851
3  Pakistan 4 0 4 0 0 −1.707
Source: ESPNcricinfo

Match summary

13 December 2006
Scorecard
India 
239/9 (50 overs)
v
 Pakistan
159/6 (50 overs)
Rumeli Dhar 53 (94)
Qanita Jalil 5/62 (10 overs)
Sajjida Shah 44 (53)
Thirush Kamini 3/19 (10 overs)
India Women won by 80 runs
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (Ind) and Devendra Sharma (Ind)
Player of the match: Amita Sharma (Ind)
14 December 2006
Scorecard
Pakistan 
147/9 (50 overs)
v
 Sri Lanka
151/3 (43.2 overs)
Tasqeen Qadeer 37 (90)
Shashikala Siriwardene 4/34 (10 overs)
Chamari Polgampola 53 (116)
Sabahat Rasheed 1/17 (4 overs)
Sri Lanka Women won by 7 wickets
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (Ind) and Devendra Sharma (Ind)
Player of the match: Shashikala Siriwardene (SL)
15 December 2006
Scorecard
Sri Lanka 
145/8 (50 overs)
v
 India
151/0 (31.3 overs)
Shashikala Siriwardene 40 (70)
Preeti Dimri 3/14 (8 overs)
India Women won by 10 wickets
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (Ind) and Devendra Sharma (Ind)
Player of the match: Sulakshana Naik (Ind) and Thirush Kamini (Ind)
17 December 2006
Scorecard
Pakistan 
166/7 (50 overs)
v
 Sri Lanka
167/5 (39.4 overs)
Sana Mir 35 (67)
Eshani Kaushalya 3/40 (10 overs)
Dedunu Silva 50 (66)
Sajjida Shah 2/46 (10 overs)
Sri Lanka Women won by 5 wickets
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Umpires: Ramesh Jadhav (Ind) and Ramamurthy Sundar (Ind)
Player of the match: Eshani Kaushalya (SL)
  • Pakistan Women won the toss and elected to bat.
18 December 2006
Scorecard
Sri Lanka 
171 (49.3 overs)
v
 India
172/3 (47.2 overs)
Dedunu Silva 78 (119)
Thirush Kamini 2/9 (4 overs)
Mithali Raj 68* (108)
Chamari Polgampola 1/23 (8 overs)
India Women won by 7 wickets
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Umpires: Ramesh Jadhav (Ind) and Ramamurthy Sundar (Ind)
Player of the match: Mithali Raj (Ind)
  • Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Nirosha Kumari (SL) made her women's ODI debut.
19 December 2006
Scorecard
India 
244/7 (50 overs)
v
 Pakistan
141/8 (50 overs)
Sunetra Paranjpe 52 (67)
Sana Mir 3/37 (10 overs)
Urooj Mumtaz 33 (72)
Rajeshwari Goyal 2/12 (10 overs)
India Women won by 103 runs
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Umpires: Sanjeev Dua (Ind) and Vishwas Nerurkar (Ind)
Player of the match: Rajeshwari Goyal (Ind)
  • India Women won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Nain Abidi (Pak) made her women's ODI debut.
  • Sanjeev Dua made his women's ODI debut as an umpire.[8]

Final

21 December 2006
Scorecard
Sri Lanka 
93 (44.1 overs)
v
 India
95/2 (27.5 overs)
Chamari Polgampola 22 (65)
Rumeli Dhar 2/11(7 overs)
Sunetra Paranjpe 35* (59)
Chamari Polgampola 1/22 (7 overs)
India Women won by 8 wickets
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Umpires: Sanjeev Dua (Ind) and Vishwas Nerurkar (Ind)
Player of the match: Sunetra Paranjpe (Ind)
  • Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to bat.

References

  1. ^ "Most runs at the 2006 Women's Asia Cup". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Most wickets at the 2006 Women's Asia Cup". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  3. ^ "India target hat-trick of titles". ESPNcricinfo. 12 December 2006. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  4. ^ "2006 Women's Asia Cup grounds". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  5. ^ Thompson, Jenny (21 December 2006). "India storm to Asia Cup success". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  6. ^ ESPNcricinfo Asia Cup page ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved on 16 February 2022
  7. ^ "Women's Asia Cup 2006/07 India Women v Pakistan Women". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  8. ^ "List of Women's One Day International matches umpired by Sanjeev Dua". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 April 2017.