The first India-Pakistan fight in Asia Cup history was in Dhaka. The battle of Bangabandhu Stadium, on 31 October 1988, also marks the first India-Pakistan fight in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh, in the Asia Cup, engulfed the history of India-Pakistan fight. In this competition of continental excellence, the first fight of two antichrist was that of Bangladesh. At that time Dhaka Stadium (today's Bangabandhu stadium) was the 'cricket war' of India and Pakistan, 30 years ago today, on 31 October 1988.
India won the Asia Cup cricket first India-Pakistan match Dilip Vengsarkar's team won the match by 4 wickets. But the match could not fill the mind with the audience of Dhaka. Pakistan batted first with only 142 runs in batting. Wasim Akram, Abdul Kadir's Pakistan bowling could not stand up to the test against the powerful Indian batting line-up, which was caught by Krishnamachari Srikant, Mohammad Azharuddin, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Mahindra Amarnath and Kapil Dev. The match was almost done by Pakistanis alone, an Indian off-spinner named Arshad Ayub. He took 5 wickets for 21 runs. It is only in Asia Cup that any Indian bowler has only 5 wickets!
Pakistan beat batting first But the beginning did not make them worse. Rameez Raja and Moinul Atiq's opening pair added 62 runs in the Indian camp. But Ramdin and Ramdin, who scored 62 runs, were bowled by left-arm spinner Moinadar Singh Atic on 91 runs. Then Amir Malik, Shoaib Mohammad, Navid Anjum and Wasim Akram picked up Arshad Offbreak one by one. Ijaz Ahmed and Hafeez Saeed will return to Kapil. Abdul Kadir is runout. Moinul Atiq has scored 38 runs for Pakistan. Besides, Ramiz King 33, Selim Malik 19 and Iajaj 14.
In reply to the batting, India lost the match to Sidhu But Mahindra Amarnath's 74 runs from 122, Krishnamachari Srikanto 23 and Mohammad Azharuddin 15 runs India reached the target of 40.4 overs.
On the day of watching the match between India and Pakistan, at the Bangabandhu stadium, From early in the morning, the crowd of Dhaka was the stadium. Thousands of visitors were able to enter the stadium, but thousands of people were waiting outside. But the first India-Pakistan fight in the history of the Asia Cup was not enough to give a glimpse of Arshad Ayub's 5 wickets and the memories of Dhaka.