Match Schedule of Asia Cup

The ninth edition of the Asian Cup series is going to take place this year from 24 June in Pakistan. Only six Asian teams will contest in this tournament in two groups. These are India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, UAE, and Hong Kong. Asian Cup tournament is more attractive to its Cricket fans because they also can see two rival South Asian teams India and Pakistan to fight against each others. This match will be shown on Setanta Sports which has got the right to show the all matches.

The day/night match will be played as the format of 50 overs per side.

Group A	Group B
Sri Lanka Bangladesh UAE	India Pakistan Hong Kong

The format of Asia Cup will be seen in two groups. Each group consists of three teams who will play again each other. Top two teams will be able to play in the next round. In the second round each team will play again each other once.

Date	Teams	Venue
June 24, 2008	Bangladesh v UAE	Lahore
	Pakistan v Hong Kong	Karachi
June 25, 2008	Bangladesh v Sri Lanka	Lahore
	Hong Kong v India	Karachi
June 26, 2008	Sri Lanka v UAE	Lahore
	Pakistan v India	Karachi
June 28, 2008	A2 v B2	Karachi
June 29, 2008	A1 v B1	Karachi
June 30, 2008	A1 v A2	Karachi
July 2, 2008	B1 v B2	Karachi
July 3, 2008	A1 v B2	Karachi
July 4, 2008	A2 v B1	Karachi
July 6, 2008	FINAL	Karachi

Karachi will be host for most of the matches. Final match will also be held in this venue. However, only three matches will be played in Lahore. Match will be continued till 6 July. So, I am sure cricket fans are going to enjoy the one-day game after IPL T20 game.