Ahead of Asia Cup 2022, the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Sanath Jayasuriya, Shahid Afridi, and Shakib Al Hasan are the players to have scored over 300 runs and taken 15+ wickets in the tournament’s history. Shakib might surpass all of them in wickets tally.
Earlier, Sri Lankan spin legend Muttiah Muralidaran was the highest wicket-taker in Asia Cups with 30 scalps to his name from 24 matches at an economy of 3.75 before being surpassed by his countryman and premier pacer Lasith Malinga with 33 wickets (29 ODIs + four T20Is).
Sanath Jayasuriya is the all-time leading run-scorer in Asia Cup history having amassed 1220 runs from 25 matches between 1990 to 2008 including three half-centuries and six centuries at a strike rate of 102.52.