Pakistan has won the Asia Cup twice, in 2000 and 2012, from six final appearances since the tournament began in 1984.
Across both the ODI and T20I formats, Pakistan has played 66 matches, won 37, and lost 27. Here is every major Pakistan record from the tournament, updated through the 2025 edition.
Pakistan’s Asia Cup Titles and Final Appearances
Pakistan sits third on the all-time winners’ list, behind India (9 titles) and Sri Lanka (6). Still, only India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan have ever lifted the trophy, so finishing third in that company is nothing to scoff at.
Pakistan has reached six finals total. It won two and lost four, and the heartbreak has mostly come at the hands of Sri Lanka.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Venue | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Runner-up | Lost to Sri Lanka by 5 wickets | Colombo | ODI |
| 2000 | Champion | Beat Sri Lanka by 39 runs | Dhaka | ODI |
| 2012 | Champion | Beat Bangladesh by 2 runs | Mirpur | ODI |
| 2014 | Runner-up | Lost to Sri Lanka by 5 wickets | Mirpur | ODI |
| 2022 | Runner-up | Lost to Sri Lanka by 23 runs | Dubai | T20I |
| 2025 | Runner-up | Lost to India by 5 wickets | Dubai | T20I |
The 2012 final remains Pakistan’s most nerve-shredding win. Chasing 236, Bangladesh needed just 2 runs off the final over and still fell short, a finish so tight it probably aged half the crowd in Mirpur by a decade.
Pakistan’s Overall Win-Loss Record in the Asia Cup
Since Pakistan has featured in 16 of the 17 editions (it withdrew from 1990/91 due to political tensions with India), its numbers cover a lot of cricketing history. Here is the full breakdown by format.
| Format | Editions | Matches | Won | Lost | No Result | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combined | 16 | 66 | 37 | 27 | 2 | 58.7 (excl. NR) |
| ODI | 13 | 50 | 28 | 20 | 2 | 58.33 |
| T20I | 3 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 56.25 |
Notice that Pakistan’s win percentage barely moves between formats. Whether it is 50 overs or 20, the team hovers right around the 58 percent mark, which says a lot about consistency, even if it hasn’t translated into more silverware.
Pakistan vs India: The Asia Cup’s Biggest Rivalry
No Pakistan Asia Cup record sheet is complete without the India clashes, since these matches generate roughly 80 percent of the tournament’s total revenue.
India currently leads the head-to-head. Most sources put it at 21 to 22 total meetings, with India winning 13 and Pakistan winning 6, and the rest ending in no result. The small gap in the total match count comes down to how different trackers count abandoned or rain-hit games, so treat 21-22 as the honest range rather than a fixed number.
Key numbers from the rivalry:
- Highest Pakistan score vs India in Asia Cup: 329/6 (2012, ODI)
- Highest Pakistan score vs India in T20 Asia Cup: 182/5 (2022, Dubai)
- Lowest Pakistan score vs India in Asia Cup: 83 all out (2016, Dhaka, T20I)
- Best individual bowling figures for Pakistan vs India: Aaqib Javed’s 5/19 (1995, Sharjah)
Pakistan’s only Asia Cup win over India in the T20 format came in the 2022 Super Four stage, a five-wicket victory that remains one of the format’s most memorable chases. The three sides met again in 2025, including in the tournament’s first-ever India vs Pakistan final, which India won by 5 wickets.
Batting Records for Pakistan in the Asia Cup (ODI Format)
Pakistan played its 13 ODI-format Asia Cup campaigns between 1984 and 2023, since the tournament switched to a rotating ODI-T20I schedule from 2016 onward. Here is who tops the all-time charts, based on figures compiled.
Most Runs (ODI Asia Cup, All-Time)
| Player | Runs | Average | Strike Rate | 100s | 50s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shoaib Malik | 786 | 65.50 | 90.65 | 3 | 3 |
| Inzamam-ul-Haq | 591 | 59.10 | 89.27 | 0 | 6 |
| Younis Khan | 546 | 49.63 | 100.55 | 2 | 3 |
| Shahid Afridi | 532 | 35.46 | 140.74 | 2 | 1 |
| Umar Akmal | 510 | 51.00 | 99.41 | 1 | 4 |
| Mohammad Hafeez | 403 | 44.77 | 69.36 | 1 | 3 |
Shoaib Malik is Pakistan’s leading run-scorer in Asia Cup history by some distance, and he is also the only Pakistani batter with more than three centuries in the tournament, per Wisden’s analysis.
Highest Individual Score by a Pakistan Batter
Babar Azam holds Pakistan’s record for the highest individual score in Asia Cup history, with 151 off 131 balls against Nepal in Multan during the 2023 edition. It sits second overall behind only Virat Kohli’s 183 against Pakistan in 2012.
Before that innings, Younis Khan’s 144 off 122 balls against Hong Kong in 2004 had stood as the record for nearly two decades. Shoaib Malik’s 143 against India, also in 2004, completes Pakistan’s top three.
Highest Team Total
Pakistan’s 385/7 against Bangladesh at Dambulla in 2010 stands as the highest team total in Asia Cup ODI history, across every team that has ever played the tournament. Pakistan’s next-best total, 342/6 against Nepal in 2023, is also its second-highest Asia Cup score ever, built almost entirely off Babar Azam’s 151 and Iftikhar Ahmed’s unbeaten century.
Bowling Records for Pakistan in the Asia Cup (ODI Format)
Here are the Bowling Records of Pakistan Team in Asia Cup ODI Format:
Most Wickets
| Player | Wickets | Matches | Average | Best Bowling |
| Saeed Ajmal | 25 | 12 | 19.40 | 3/26 |
| Abdul Qadir | 17 | 8 | 14.76 | 3/15 |
| Wasim Akram | 16 | 12 | 18.56 | 4/19 |
| Abdul Razzaq | 16 | 11 | 20.18 | 4/29 |
| Shahid Afridi | 14 | 23 | 63.07 | 3/49 |
| Shoaib Akhtar | 10 | 7 | 26.30 | 3/28 |
Saeed Ajmal is Pakistan’s all-time leading wicket-taker in the Asia Cup, picking up 25 wickets in just 12 matches between 2008 and 2014, according to Wisden’s breakdown of Pakistan’s Asia Cup bowling attack.
Best Bowling Figures in an Innings
Aaqib Javed’s 5/19 against India at Sharjah in 1995 remains Pakistan’s best individual bowling performance in Asia Cup history. It stood as the best bowling figures by any fast bowler in the tournament for close to three decades, until Mohammed Siraj’s 6/21 broke it in 2023. Saqlain Mushtaq also picked up a five-wicket haul for Pakistan, taking 5/38 against Bangladesh in Colombo in 1997.
Pakistan in the T20 Asia Cup (2016, 2022, 2025)
The Asia Cup has been played in the T20I format three times so far, and Pakistan has finished runner-up twice, in 2022 and 2025, without ever winning the title in this format.
- Highest team total: 182/5 vs India (2022, Dubai)
- Lowest team total: 83 all out vs India (2016, Dhaka)
- Most runs in a single edition: Mohammad Rizwan, 281 runs in 2022, the most by any player in that edition
- Most wickets (all-time, T20 format): Haris Rauf, 11 wickets across 2022 and 2025, second only to India’s Kuldeep Yadav (17)
In the 2025 final against India, Sahibzada Farhan top-scored for Pakistan with 57 off 38 balls, though Pakistan was bowled out for 146 and lost by 5 wickets.
Conclusion
Pakistan’s Asia Cup story is one of two triumphant peaks (2000 and 2012) surrounded by four painful final defeats, most of them against Sri Lanka and, more recently, India.
Shoaib Malik, Babar Azam, and Saeed Ajmal own the record books, but the trophy has stayed out of reach since 2012. With the 2027 edition set for Bangladesh and back in the ODI format, Pakistan will look to end a runner-up streak that has now stretched across three of the last four tournaments.
