ACC Men's Premier Cup, 2023 - Squads, Fixtures and All you need to know
ACC Men's Premier Cup is about to get underway on the 18th of April with the hosts Nepal and Malaysia locking horns against one another in the inaugural match of the tournament.
Tournament Stats - ACC Men's Premier Cup 2023
The final of ACC Men's Premier Cup will be played on the 1st of May, 2023.
There are 10 teams participating in the tournament namely Nepal, Malaysia, Bahrain, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and United Arab Emirates.
Nepal will be hosting the much awaited tournament and all of the matches will be played at the Tribhuvan University Ground and Mulpani Ground.
The matches will be played in a 50 overs format and it will be a gateway to the qualification for ACC Men's Asia Cup 2023. The winner of the tournament will advance to feature in the Asia Cup.
The teams are divided into two groups. The Group A features teams like Oman, Nepal, Qatar, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia while the Group B features United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Singapore and Bahrain.
Bahrain and Saudi Arabia are new teams into the cricket circuit. They have qualified through the ACC Men’s Challenger Cup held in Thailand in February 2023.
Oman, Malaysia, UAE, Nepal and Singapore are strong teams and they are likely to qualify for the Semi Finals.
Let's have a look at the fixtures:
Apr 18, Tue
Nepal vs Malaysia, 1st Match, Group A
Hong Kong vs Singapore, 2nd Match, Group B
Apr 19, Wed
United Arab Emirates vs Kuwait, 3rd Match, Group B
Oman vs Qatar, 4th Match, Group A
Apr 20, Thu
Singapore vs Bahrain, 5th Match, Group B
Malaysia vs Saudi Arabia, 6th Match, Group A
Apr 21, Fri
United Arab Emirates vs Hong Kong, 8th Match, Group B
Nepal vs Oman, 7th Match, Group A
Apr 22, Sat
Qatar vs Saudi Arabia, 9th Match, Group A
Kuwait vs Bahrain, 10th Match, Group B
Apr 23, Sun
United Arab Emirates vs Singapore, 11th Match, Group B
Oman vs Malaysia, 12th Match, Group A
Apr 24, Mon
Nepal vs Saudi Arabia, 14th Match, Group A
Hong Kong vs Bahrain, 13th Match, Group B
Apr 25, Tue
Kuwait vs Singapore, 15th Match, Group B
Qatar vs Malaysia, 16th Match, Group A
Apr 26, Wed
Oman vs Saudi Arabia, 17th Match, Group A
United Arab Emirates vs Bahrain, 18th Match, Group B
Apr 27, Thu
Hong Kong vs Kuwait, 20th Match, Group B
Nepal vs Qatar, 19th Match, Group A
Apr 29, Sat
TBC vs TBC, 1st Semi-Final
TBC vs TBC, 2nd Semi-Final
Mulpani Cricket Ground, Kathmandu
Apr 30, Sun
TBC vs TBC, 3rd Place Playoff
May 1, Mon
TBC vs TBC, Final
Let's have a look at the squads:
Hong Kong: Nizakat Khan (Captain), Adit Gorawara, Aizaz Khan, Ayush Shukla, Anshuman Rath, Babar Hayat, Ehsan Khan, Ghazanfar Mohammad, Haroon Arshad, Kinchit Shah, Nasrulla Rana, Shahid Wasif, Yasim Murtaza and Zeeshan Ali
Bahrain: Janaka Chaturanga, Mohamed Younis, David Mathias, Sohail Ahmed, Junaid Niazi, Haider Ali, Shabaz Badder, Ali Dawood, Zeeshan Abbas, Majid Abbasi, Rizwan Butt, Sathyaiah Veerapathiran, Imran Javed and George Axtel
Malaysia: Ahmad Faiz (Captain), Virandeep Singh, Khizar Hayat, Syed Aziz Syed Mubarak, Sharvin Muniandy, Amir Azim, Fitri Sham, Vijay Unni, Anwar Rahman, Nazril Rahman, Wan Muhammad Azam, Wafiq Irfan, Syahadat Ramli and Rizwan Haider
Oman: Zeeshan Maqsood (captain), Aaqib Ilyas, Jay Odedera, Kaleemullah, Shoaib Khan, Kashyapkumar Prajapati, Adeel Shafique, Jatinder Singh, Mohammad Nadeem, Sandeep Goud, Bilal Khan, Ayaan Khan, Naseem Khushi and Fayyaz Butt
Singapore: Aritra Dutta (Captain), Avi Dixit, Amarthya Kaul, Surendran Chandramohan, Manpreet Singh, Aaryan Modi, Siddhanth Srikanth, Ramesh Kalimuthu, Omaidurain Thilipan, Akshay Puri, Vinoth Baskaran, Abdul Rahman, Rohan Rangarajan, Adwitya Bhargava, Prasheen Param and Vinit Chittesh Mehta
United Arab Emirates: Muhammad Waseem (Captain), Aayan Khan, Ansh Tandon, Aryan Lakra, Asif Khan, Basil Hameed, Junaid Siddique, Karthik Meiyappan, Matiullah, Rameez Shahzad, Rohan Mustafa, Sanchit Sharma, Vriitya Aravind and Zahoor Khan
Kuwait: Mohammed Aslam (Captain), Adnan Idrees, Sayed Monib, Usman Patel, Bilal Tahir, Muhammad Amin, Ravija Sandaruwan, Meet Bhavsar, Shiraz Khan, Parvinder Kumar, Yasin Ishak, Clinto Velookkaran Anto, Shahrukh Quddus and Ilyas Ammed
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*NB these predictions may be changed nearer the start of the match once the final starting teams have been announced and we will be running ‘In-Play’ features, so stay tuned.
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