The question is, which team made history by winning the Asia Cup eight times? The answer to that is simple: it is the Indian Cricket Team. This time, the Asia Cup will start on the 8th of September and end on the 28th of September, and the venue is the United Arab Emirates. They will start their campaign in this season of the Asia Cup by playing the host, the United Arab Emirates, on 10th September in Dubai.
For every first team, India won the Asia Cup in 1984, which was also the year when the Asia Cup happened for the very first time. Since then, they have played all the editions of the Asia Cup in both the ODI format and the T20 format.
Sachin Tendulkar has scored the most runs for India in the Asia Cup. He has scored 939 runs in 28 matches. At the same time, Ravindra Jadeja has the most wickets for India in the Asia Cup. He has a total of 18 wickets.
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Which team made history by winning the Asia Cup eight times?
India has to be the team to make history by winning the Asia Cup eight times. When we look at the first edition of the Asia Cup, which India won, there were only three teams. India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The competition did not have knockouts; it was kind of a league phase. It again happened in 1988, with Bangladesh entering the tournament, and India won that year too.
For the next two editions, which happened in 1990-91 and 1995, India won the Asia Cup. This was India’s fourth title in four editions, which was quite remarkable. From now on, the heartbreaks began for the Indian fans. As for the next four editions, that is 1997, 2000, 2004, and 2008, India lost three finals. In between that, in 2004, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates also started playing the competition.
The wait was finally over as India won the Asia Cup in 2010, which happened in Sri Lanka. Dinesh Karthik did a brilliant job with the bat. In 2016 and 2018, India won two back-to-back Asia Cups, one in Bangladesh and the other in the UAE. The eighth title came when they won the last edition of the Asia Cup by humiliating Sri Lanka at their home in the final. It was a Mohammed Siraj show, getting six wickets in the final.
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