2023 ACC Men's Premier Cup

2023 ACC Men's Premier Cup

Dates	18 April – 2 May 2023
Administrator(s)	Asian Cricket Council
Cricket format	One Day International
Tournament format(s)	Group round-robin and knockout
Host(s)	Nepal
Champions	Nepal (1st title)
Runners-up	United Arab Emirates
Participants	10
Matches	24
Player of the series	Sandeep Lamichhane
Most runs	Vriitya Aravind (454)
Most wickets	Bilal Khan (17)
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The 2023 ACC Men's Premier Cup was a cricket tournament which took place in April and May 2023. ^[1] It was the inaugural edition of the ACC Men's Premier Cup, and it served as the final stage of qualification for the 2023 Asia Cup tournament. ^{[2] [3]} It was held in Nepal, ^[4] with the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground and Mulpani International Cricket Ground hosting matches. ^[5] The winner of the tournament qualified for the 2023 Asia Cup. ^[6] The top three teams including also qualified for the 2023 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup. ^[7]

The Asian Cricket Council announced the schedule for the tournament on 23 March 2023. ^[8] Bahrain and Saudi Arabia qualified to participate in this tournament as the top two teams in the 2023 ACC Men's Challenger Cup, where Saudi Arabia had beaten Bahrain by 10 wickets in the final. ^[9]

Nepal defeated United Arab Emirates in the final and qualified for the 2023 Asia Cup. ^{[10] [11] [12]} In addition to the two finalists, Oman advanced to the 2023 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup tournament after the 3rd place play-off ended with no result. ^[13]

Teams and qualifications

Following teams were qualified for the tournament.

Means of qualification	Venue	Nos.	Teams
ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings	—	8	United Arab Emirates     Nepal   Oman   Hong Kong   Malaysia   Qatar   Kuwait   Singapore
2023 ACC Men's Challenger Cup	Thailand	2	Saudi Arabia   Bahrain
Total		10

Squads

Bahrain [14]	Hong Kong [15]	Kuwait [16]	Malaysia [17]	Nepal [18]
Haider Butt (c) Abdul Majid Fiaz Ahmed Sohail Ahmed Waseeq Ahmed Imran Anwar Junaid Aziz Shahbaz Badar (wk) Rizwan Butt Ali Dawood David Mathias Sai Sarthak Sathaiya Veerapathiran Muhammad Younis	Nizakat Khan (c) Zeeshan Ali (wk) Haroon Arshad Mohammad Ghazanfar Adit Gorawara (wk) Babar Hayat Aizaz Khan Ehsan Khan Yasim Murtaza Nasrulla Rana Anshuman Rath Kinchit Shah Ayush Shukla Shahid Wasif	Mohammed Aslam (c) Ilyas Ahmed Mohammad Amin Clinto Anto Meet Bhavsar (wk) Adnan Idrees Shiraz Khan Parvindar Kumar Sayed Monib Usman Patel (wk) Yasin Patel Shahrukh Quddus Ravija Sandaruwan Bilal Tahir	Ahmad Faiz (c) Virandeep Singh (vc, wk) Muhammad Amir Wan Azam Syed Aziz Rizwan Haider Khizar Hayat Sharvin Muniandy Anwar Rahman Nazril Rahman Fitri Sham Muhamad Syahadat Vijay Unni Muhammad Wafiq	Rohit Paudel (c) Dipendra Singh Airee Kushal Bhurtel Pratis GC Gulsan Jha Sompal Kami Karan KC Sandeep Lamichhane Gyanendra Malla Kushal Malla Lalit Rajbanshi Bhim Sharki Aarif Sheikh Aasif Sheikh (wk)
Oman [19]	Qatar [20]	Saudi Arabia	Singapore [21]	United Arab Emirates [22]
Zeeshan Maqsood (c) Aqib Ilyas (vc) Fayyaz Butt Sandeep Goud Kaleemullah Ayaan Khan Bilal Khan Shoaib Khan Naseem Khushi (wk) Mohammad Nadeem Jay Odedra Kashyap Prajapati Adeel Shafique (wk) Jatinder Singh	Mohammed Rizlan (c, wk) Owais Ahmed Amir Farooq Zaheer Ibrahim Ikramullah Khan Kamran Khan Imal Liyanage (wk) Gayan Munaweera Muhammad Murad Mohammed Nadeem Khurram Shahzad Muhammad Tanveer Valeed Veetil Sandun Withanage	Hisham Sheikh (c) Zain Ul Abidin (vc) Ishtiaq Ahmad Manan Ali Imran Arif Atif-Ur-Rehman Ahmed Baladraf Haseeb Ghafoor (wk) Saad Khan Usman Najeeb Waqar Ul Hassan Abdul Waheed Abdul Wahid Zuhair	Aritra Dutta (c) Vinoth Baskaran Abdul Rahman Bhadelia Adwitya Bhargava Surendran Chandramohan Avi Dixit Ramesh Kalimuthu Amartya Kaul Vinit Mehta Aaryan Modi Thilipan Omaidurai Prasheen Param Akshay Puri Rohan Rangarajan Manpreet Singh (wk) Sidhant Srikanth	Muhammad Waseem (c) Vriitya Aravind (wk) Basil Hameed Aayan Afzal Khan Asif Khan Matiullah Khan Zahoor Khan Aryan Lakra Karthik Meiyappan Rohan Mustafa Rameez Shahzad Sanchit Sharma Junaid Siddique Ansh Tandon

Warm-up matches

13 April 2023 09:30

Oman   249/9 (50 overs)	v	Bahrain 198 (45.2 overs)
Zeeshan Maqsood 69 (105) Rizwan Butt 2/33 (6 overs)		Sohail Ahmed 84 (104) Bilal Khan 4/52 (8.2 overs)

Oman won by 51 runs Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur

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15 April 2023 09:30

Oman   246/9 (50 overs)	v	Nepal 249/5 (44.4 overs)
Shoaib Khan 110* (123) Kishore Mahato 3/27 (8 overs)		Arjun Saud 67 (87) Zeeshan Maqsood 2/60 (10 overs)

Nepal won by 5 wickets Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur

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15 April 2023 09:30

Bahrain   175 (49.4 overs)	v	Kuwait 176/9 (40.1 overs)
Rizwan Butt 47 (59) Ilyas Ahmed 3/27 (6 overs)		Parvindar Kumar 47 (36) Waseeq Ahmed 2/23 (5 overs)

Kuwait won by 1 wicket Mulpani International Cricket Ground, Kageshwari-Manohara

Group stage

Group A

Points table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Nepal	4	3	0	0	1	7	1.497
2	Oman	4	3	1	0	0	6	0.377
3	Malaysia	4	2	2	0	0	4	0.240
4	Saudi Arabia	4	1	2	0	1	3	−1.101
5	Qatar	4	0	4	0	0	0	−1.056

Source: ESPNcricinfo

  Advanced to the knockout stage

Fixtures

18 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Malaysia   235/9 (50 overs)	v	Nepal 237/4 (36.2 overs)
Ahmad Faiz 76 (95) Sompal Kami 3/40 (9 overs)		Bhim Sharki 71 (98) Virandeep Singh 1/37 (7 overs)

Nepal won by 6 wickets Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Naresh D'Souza (Kuw) and Shiju Sam (UAE) Player of the match: Kushal Malla (Nep)

• Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat.

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19 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Oman   249/8 (50 overs)	v	Qatar 209 (47.2 overs)
Ayaan Khan 64* (59) Muhammad Murad 3/47 (10 overs)		Mohammed Rizlan 43 (69) Bilal Khan 4/42 (8.2 overs)

Oman won by 40 runs Mulpani International Cricket Ground, Kageshwari-Manohara Umpires: Himal Giri (Nep) and Anand Natarajan (Sin) Player of the match: Ayaan Khan (Oma)

• Qatar won the toss and elected to field.

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20 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Saudi Arabia   153 (46.2 overs)	v	Malaysia 154/2 (21.2 overs)
Haseeb Ghafoor 40 (78) Khizar Hayat 3/13 (10 overs)		Muhammad Amir 56 (44) Zain Ul Abidin 2/46 (8.2 overs)

Malaysia won by 8 wickets Mulpani International Cricket Ground, Kageshwari-Manohara Umpires: Sanjay Gurung (Nep) and John Prakash (HK) Player of the match: Khizar Hayat (Mas)

• Malaysia won the toss and elected to field.

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21 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Nepal     310/8 (50 overs)	v	Oman 226 (46.3 overs)
Kushal Malla 108 (64) Ayaan Khan 2/46 (5 overs)		Mohammad Nadeem 65 (84) Sandeep Lamichhane 3/45 (8 overs)

Nepal won by 84 runs Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Naresh D'Souza (Kuw) and Shiju Sam (UAE) Player of the match: Kushal Malla (Nep)

• Oman won the toss and elected to field.
• Adeel Shafique (Oma) made his ODI debut.
• Kushal Malla (Nep) scored his first century in ODIs. ^[23]
• Kushal Malla scored the fastest ODI century by a Nepali cricketer, in terms of number of balls faced (59). ^[24]
• Sandeep Lamichhane (Nep) became the fastest bowler, in terms of number of matches played, to take 100 wickets in ODIs (42). ^[25]

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22 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Qatar   216 (49.5 overs)	v	Saudi Arabia 220/3 (34.2 overs)
Muhammad Tanveer 46 (84) Ishtiaq Ahmad 4/46 (9.5 overs)		Abdul Waheed 124 (108) Ikramullah Khan 2/28 (5 overs)

Saudi Arabia won by 7 wickets Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Aasif Iqbal (UAE) and John Prakash (HK) Player of the match: Abdul Waheed (Sau)

• Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected field.

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23 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Malaysia   227/9 (50 overs)	v	Oman 228/2 (41.4 overs)
Virandeep Singh 94 (144) Zeeshan Maqsood 4/35 (10 overs)		Jatinder Singh 101* (111) Muhammad Amir 2/26 (6 overs)

Oman won by 8 wickets Mulpani International Cricket Ground, Kageshwari-Manohara Umpires: Sanjay Gurung (Nep) and Shiju Sam (UAE) Player of the match: Zeeshan Maqsood (Oma)

• Oman won the toss and elected to field.

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24 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Nepal	v	Saudi Arabia

Match abandoned Mulpani International Cricket Ground, Kageshwari-Manohara Umpires: Naresh D'Souza (Kuw) and Riyaz Kurupkar (Qat)

• No toss.
• No play was possible due to rain.

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25 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Qatar   215/8 (35 overs)	v	Malaysia 216/7 (34.1 overs)
Imal Liyanage 56 (68) Muhammad Wafiq 2/42 (5 overs)		Syed Aziz 80 (66) Ikramullah Khan 2/35 (5.1 overs)

Malaysia won by 3 wickets Mulpani International Cricket Ground, Kageshwari-Manohara Umpires: Vinod Babu (Oma) and Vinay Kumar Jha (Nep) Player of the match: Syed Aziz (Mas)

• Qatar won the toss and elected to bat.
• The match was reduced to 35 overs per side due to a wet outfield.

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26 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Oman   366/6 (50 overs)	v	Saudi Arabia 294 (46.5 overs)
Jatinder Singh 88 (79) Atif-Ur-Rehman 3/80 (9 overs)		Abdul Waheed 95 (86) Bilal Khan 4/75 (8.5 overs)

Oman won by 72 runs Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Sanjay Gurung (Nep) and Anand Natarajan (Sin) Player of the match: Zeeshan Maqsood (Oma)

• Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to field.

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27 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Nepal     157 (40.3 overs)	v	Qatar 89 (25.1 overs)
Sandeep Lamichhane 42* (58) Amir Farooq 4/42 (9.3 overs)		Zaheer Ibrahim 15 (23) Sandeep Lamichhane 5/14 (9.1 overs)

Nepal won by 68 runs Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Vinod Babu (Oma) and Naresh D'Souza (Kuw) Player of the match: Sandeep Lamichhane (Nep)

• Qatar won the toss and elected to field.

Group B

Points table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	United Arab Emirates	4	3	1	0	0	6	2.468
2	Kuwait	4	3	1	0	0	6	0.223
3	Hong Kong	4	2	1	0	1	5	1.031
4	Bahrain	4	1	2	0	1	3	0.019
5	Singapore	4	0	4	0	0	0	−3.028

Source: ESPNcricinfo

  Advanced to the knockout stage

Fixtures

18 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Singapore   174 (42.1 overs)	v	Hong Kong 175/2 (33 overs)
Aritra Dutta 49 (57) Ehsan Khan 4/24 (10 overs)		Babar Hayat 108* (94) Ramesh Kalimuthu 1/31 (7 overs)

Hong Kong won by 8 wickets Mulpani International Cricket Ground, Kageshwari-Manohara Umpires: Aasif Iqbal (UAE) and Vinay Kumar Jha (Nep) Player of the match: Babar Hayat (HK)

• Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field.

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19 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

United Arab Emirates   371/6 (50 overs)	v	Kuwait 228 (36.3 overs)
Vriitya Aravind 185 (147) Parvindar Kumar 2/45 (3 overs)		Sayed Monib 68 (36) Junaid Siddique 3/32 (7 overs)

United Arab Emirates won by 143 runs Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Riyaz Kurupkar (Qat) and Narayanan Sivan (Mas) Player of the match: Vriitya Aravind (UAE)

• Kuwait won the toss and elected to field.

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20 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Bahrain   286/8 (50 overs)	v	Singapore 154 (43.1 overs)
Fiaz Ahmed 79 (59) Vinoth Baskaran 2/32 (10 overs)		Surendran Chandramohan 51 (66) Imran Anwar 4/24 (9 overs)

Bahrain won by 132 runs Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Rahat Ali (Sau) and Vinod Babu (Oma) Player of the match: Shahbaz Badar (Bhr)

• Bahrain won the toss and elected to bat.

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21 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Hong Kong   263/8 (50 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 117/6 (27 overs)
Anshuman Rath 106 (117) Aayan Afzal Khan 5/50 (10 overs)		Aryan Lakra 52* (71) Ehsan Khan 2/23 (5 overs)

Hong Kong won by 67 runs (DLS method) Mulpani International Cricket Ground, Kageshwari-Manohara Umpires: Vinod Babu (Oma) and Vinay Kumar Jha (Nep) Player of the match: Anshuman Rath (HK)

• United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to field.
• No further play was possible due to rain.

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22 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Bahrain   255/7 (50 overs)	v	Kuwait 258/8 (44.2 overs)
Imran Anwar 53 (19) Sayed Monib 4/69 (10 overs)		Yasin Patel 63* (89) Abdul Majid 3/51 (9 overs)

Kuwait won by 2 wickets Mulpani International Cricket Ground, Kageshwari-Manohara Umpires: Rahat Ali (Sau) and Anand Natarajan (Sin) Player of the match: Yasin Patel (Kuw)

• Kuwait won the toss and elected to field.

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23 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

United Arab Emirates   471 (50 overs)	v	Singapore 270/9 (50 overs)
Vriitya Aravind 174 (133) Adwitya Bhargava 4/85 (8 overs)		Manpreet Singh 66 (64) Sanchit Sharma 2/32 (4 overs)

United Arab Emirates won by 201 runs Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Vinod Babu (Oma) and Narayanan Sivan (Mas) Player of the match: Muhammad Waseem (UAE)

• United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to bat.

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24 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Bahrain	v	Hong Kong

Match abandoned Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Rahat Ali (Sau) and Anand Natarajan (Sin)

• No toss.
• No play was possible due to rain.

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25 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Singapore   113 (31.4 overs)	v	Kuwait 118/6 (26.3 overs)
Amartya Kaul 45 (60) Mohammed Aslam 5/20 (8.4 overs)		Adnan Idrees 38 (28) Akshay Puri 2/33 (8.3 overs)

Kuwait won by 4 wickets Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Aasif Iqbal (UAE) and John Prakash (HK) Player of the match: Mohammed Aslam (Kuw)

• Kuwait won the toss and elected to field.

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26 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Bahrain   116 (40.5 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 120/2 (27.4 overs)
Ali Dawood 23* (47) Aayan Afzal Khan 4/6 (10 overs)		Vriitya Aravind 62* (84) Abdul Majid 2/29 (10 overs)

United Arab Emirates won by 8 wickets Mulpani International Cricket Ground, Kageshwari-Manohara Umpires: Rahat Ali (Sau) and Vinay Kumar Jha (Nep) Player of the match: Aayan Afzal Khan (UAE)

• Bahrain won the toss and elected to bat.

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27 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Kuwait   272/8 (50 overs)	v	Hong Kong 242 (50 overs)
Shiraz Khan 67 (95) Ehsan Khan 3/49 (10 overs)		Nizakat Khan 60 (97) Shahrukh Quddus 3/27 (8 overs)

Kuwait won by 30 runs Mulpani International Cricket Ground, Kageshwari-Manohara Umpires: Sanjay Gurung (Nep) and Shiju Sam (UAE) Player of the match: Shiraz Khan (Kuw)

• Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field.

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals					Final
	A1	Nepal	281/9 (42)
	B2	Kuwait	37/6 (8.3)
						B1	United Arab Emirates	117 (33.1)
						A1	Nepal	118/3 (30.3)
	B1	United Arab Emirates	236 (49.2)
	A2	Oman	190/6 (43)			3rd place play-off
						B2	Kuwait	130 (31.3)
						A2	Oman	41/0 (6)

Semi-finals

1st semi-final

29 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Nepal     281/9 (42 overs)	v	Kuwait 37/6 (8.3 overs)
Rohit Paudel 94 (95) Mohammed Aslam 3/43 (8 overs)		Mohammed Aslam 14 (19) Karan KC 5/10 (4.3 overs)

No result Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Vinod Babu (Oma) and Shiju Sam (UAE)

• Kuwait won the toss and elected to field.
• No further play was possible due to rain.
• Nepal advanced to the final on the basis of finishing higher in the group stage standings. ^[26]

2nd semi-final

29 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

United Arab Emirates   236 (49.2 overs)	v	Oman 190/6 (43 overs)
Muhammad Waseem 48 (31) Zeeshan Maqsood 4/32 (10 overs)		Kashyap Prajapati 49 (43) Karthik Meiyappan 3/42 (7 overs)

United Arab Emirates won by 2 runs (DLS method) Mulpani International Cricket Ground, Kageshwari-Manohara Umpires: Rahat Ali (Sau) and Sanjay Gurung (Nep) Player of the match: Basil Hameed (UAE)

• Oman won the toss and elected to field.
• No further play was possible due to rain.
• This was the first ODI match to be held at this venue. ^[27]

3rd place play-off

30 April 2023 09:00 Scorecard

Kuwait   130 (31.3 overs)	v	Oman 41/0 (6 overs)
Adnan Idrees 34 (48) Jay Odedra 5/14 (5.3 overs)		Jatinder Singh 26* (19)

No result Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Sanjay Gurung (Nep) and Shiju Sam (UAE)

• Oman won the toss and elected to field.
• No further play was possible due to rain.
• Oman qualified for the 2023 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup on the basis of seeding. ^[28]

Final

1–2 May 2023 09:00 Scorecard

United Arab Emirates   117 (33.1 overs)	v	Nepal 118/3 (30.3 overs)
Asif Khan 46 (54) Lalit Rajbanshi 4/14 (7.1 overs)		Gulsan Jha 67* (84) Rohan Mustafa 2/13 (10 overs)

Nepal won by 7 wickets Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Rahat Ali (Sau) and Vinod Babu (Oma) Player of the match: Gulsan Jha (Nep)

• Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
• The match continued from United Arab Emirates' batting innings at 106/9 (27.3 overs) on the reserve day due to rain.
• Nepal qualified for the 2023 Asia Cup.

Final standings

Pos.	Teams	Remarks
1	Nepal	Qualified for 2023 Asia Cup & 2023 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup
2	United Arab Emirates	Qualified for 2023 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup
3	Oman
4	Kuwait
5	Hong Kong
6	Malaysia
7	Bahrain
8	Saudi Arabia
9	Qatar
10	Singapore

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External links

• Series home at ESPNcricinfo