The ACC Asia Cup is a men's One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket competition. It was set up in 1983 when the Asian Cricket Council was established as a measure to advance altruism between Asian nations. It was planned to be held every two years.
The first Asia cup was held in 1984 in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates where the council's offices were based (until 1995). India boycotted the 1986 competition because of stressed cricketing relations with Sri Lanka. Pakistan boycotted the 1990– 91 competition because of stressed political relations with India. The 1993 competition was dropped because of stressed political relations amongst India and Pakistan. The ACC has declared that the competition will be held biennially from 2008 onwards. The ICC has ruled that all games played in the Asia Cup have official ODI status.
After downsizing the Asian Cricket Council in 2015, it was announced by the ICC that Asia Cup events from 2016 will be played on a rotation basis between One Day International and Twenty20 International format, on the basis of format of upcoming world events. As a result, the 2016 event was the first event played in the T20I format and functioned as a preparatory tournament ahead of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20.
India and Sri Lanka are the best groups in the ODI format of the tournament having won the cup five times each. Pakistan has also won the ODI competition two times. India is the best group in the T20I format having won the inaugural(only) form in 2016. India is the most successful team in the tournament having won it 6 times (5 times in ODI format and once in the T20 format).
The 2018 Asia Cup is a One-Day International (ODI) cricket competition booked to be held in the United Arab Emirates in September 2018. It will be the fourteenth version of the Asia Cup and the third time the competition will be played in the United Arab Emirates, after the 1984 and 1995 competitions. India are the defending champions.
The five full members of the the Asian Cricket Council will participate in the competition: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. They will be joined by Hong Kong, who won the 2018 Asia Cup Qualifier tournament. Hong Kong had lost their ODI status subsequent to completing tenth in the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier in March. However, on 9 September 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) granted ODI status to all matches in the competition.
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