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The 2023 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier was a cricket tournament that formed part of the qualification process for the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. [1] [2]
The first stage of the qualification pathway in the Asia region consisted of two sub-regional qualifiers, held in July and September 2023 in Malaysia and Qatar respectively. [3] [4] [5] Malaysia won all of their matches in the Qualifier B tournament and advanced to the regional final. [6] Kuwait won the Qualifier A to advance to the regional final after defeating Saudi Arabia in their final match. [7]
In the regional final, Kuwait and Malaysia were joined by Nepal, Oman, and Bahrain (all of whom contested in the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Global Qualifier A in Oman), as well as Hong Kong and Singapore (who contested in the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Global Qualifier B in Zimbabwe), and the United Arab Emirates (who were knocked out of the first round of the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup in Australia). [8]
The regional final was held in Nepal from 30 October to 5 November 2023. [9] [10] The two finalists (Nepal and Oman) qualified for the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. [11] [12]
| Qualifier A | Qualifier B | Regional Final | ||
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| Direct qualifiers | Sub-regional qualifiers | |||
| Dates | 28 September – 5 October 2023 |
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| Administrator(s) | Asian Cricket Council |
| Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
| Tournament format(s) | Double round-robin |
| Host(s) |  Qatar |
| Champions |  Kuwait |
| Runners-up |  Saudi Arabia |
| Participants | 4 |
| Matches | 12 |
| Most runs | Meet Bhavsar (262) |
| Most wickets | Hisham Sheikh (12) Himanshu Rathod (12) |
| Kuwait [13] |  Maldives [14] | Qatar | Saudi Arabia [15] |
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
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| 1 | Kuwait | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2.202 | Advance to the regional final |
| 2 | Saudi Arabia | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1.447 | |
| 3 | Qatar | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0.349 | |
| 4 | Maldives | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | −4.332 |
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Ravija Sandaruwan 42 (29) Himanshu Rathod 3/20 (4 overs) |
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Abdul Waheed 58 (35) Ameel Mauroof 2/24 (4 overs) | Azyan Farhath 43 (44) Hisham Sheikh 4/12 (4 overs) |
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Saqlain Arshad 27 (24) Hisham Sheikh 4/14 (4 overs) | Hisham Sheikh 29* (33) Himanshu Rathod 2/21 (4 overs) |
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Kaushal Rodrigo 71 (54) Muhammad Murad 3/21 (4 overs) |
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Meet Bhavsar 89 (55) Ishtiaq Ahmad 5/27 (4 overs) | Faisal Khan 69 (34) Sayed Monib 4/16 (3.4 overs) |
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Ravija Sandaruwan 71 (40) Muhammad Murad 2/23 (3 overs) |
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Kaushal Rodrigo 26 (41) Ahmed Baladraf 3/14 (4 overs) | Faisal Khan 46* (25) Leem Shafeeg 1/9 (1 over) |
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Kaushal Rodrigo 23 (29) Yasin Patel 2/10 (4 overs) |
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Muhammad Tanveer 52 (23) Umar Adam 2/49 (4 overs) | Umar Adam 56 (29) Himanshu Rathod 4/29 (4 overs) |
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Abdul Waheed 83 (58) Sayed Monib 2/29 (4 overs) | Meet Bhavsar 55 (27) Zain Ul Abidin 2/23 (4 overs) |
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| Dates | 26 July – 1 August 2023 |
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| Administrator(s) | Asian Cricket Council |
| Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
| Tournament format(s) | Round-robin |
| Host(s) |  Malaysia |
| Champions | Malaysia |
| Runners-up |  Thailand |
| Participants | 5 |
| Matches | 10 |
| Player of the series | Virandeep Singh |
| Most runs | Ahmad Faiz (115) |
| Most wickets | Syazrul Idrus (10) |
The following teams and squads were named for the tournament:
 Bhutan [17] |  China | Malaysia [18] |  Myanmar | Thailand [19] |
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
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| 1 | Malaysia | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5.986 | Advance to the regional final |
| 2 | Thailand | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2.927 | |
| 3 | Bhutan | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | −0.085 | |
| 4 | China | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | −3.537 | |
| 5 | Myanmar | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | −4.196 |
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Wei Guo Lei 7 (15) Syazrul Idrus 7/8 (4 overs) |
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Sherab Loday 18 (16) Pyae Phyo Wai 3/29 (4 overs) | Ye Naing Tun 19 (17) Karma Dorji 2/4 (2 overs) |
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Wei Guo Lei 8 (16) Nopphon Senamontree 4/9 (2.5 overs) | Sorawat Desungnoen 16* (15) Wang Qi 1/7 (2 overs) |
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Zubaidi Zulkifle 36 (19) Tenzin Wangchuk 2/28 (4 overs) | Suprit Pradhan 22 (27) Virandeep Singh 2/14 (4 overs) |
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Robert Raina 42 (30) Thuya Aung 2/23 (4 overs) | Pyae Phyo Wai 8 (18) Khaniston Namchaikul 4/7 (4 overs) |
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Suprit Pradhan 59 (41) Ma Qiancheng 1/17 (4 overs) | Wei Guo Lei 15 (14) Namgay Thinley 3/3 (2.4 overs) |
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Ye Naing Tun 10 (15) Syazrul Idrus 2/5 (3 overs) |
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Tenzin Rabgay 22 (27) Robert Raina 2/18 (4 overs) | Akshaykumar Yadav 31* (28) Tashi Phuntsho 1/22 (2 overs) |
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Pyae Phyo Wai 17 (25) Chen Zhuo Yue 4/16 (4 overs) | Zhuang Zelin 33 (41) Paing Danu 2/15 (4 overs) |
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| Dates | 30 October – 5 November 2023 |
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| Administrator(s) | Asian Cricket Council |
| Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
| Host(s) |  Nepal |
| Champions |  Oman |
| Runners-up | Nepal |
| Participants | 8 |
| Matches | 15 |
| Player of the series | Aqib Ilyas |
| Most runs | Kushal Bhurtel (185) |
| Most wickets | Bilal Khan (11) |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
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| 1 | Oman | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.983 | Advanced to the semi-finals |
| 2 | Nepal | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.729 | |
| 3 | Malaysia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.187 | |
| 4 |  Singapore | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | −1.936 |
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Kushal Bhurtel 74 (48) Akshay Puri 1/28 (3 overs) |
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Ahmad Faiz 71 (41) Ramesh Kalimuthu 2/48 (4 overs) | Aritra Dutta 53 (31) Muhammad Amir 5/16 (3 overs) |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
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| 1 |  United Arab Emirates | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1.445 | Advanced to the semi-finals |
| 2 |  Bahrain | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | −0.398 | |
| 3 |  Hong Kong | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | −0.433 | |
| 4 | Kuwait | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | −0.649 |
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Imran Anwar 37 (25) Shiraz Khan 2/22 (4 overs) | Usman Patel 64 (34) Ali Dawood 2/23 (4 overs) |
| Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| A1 | Oman | 109/0 (14.2 overs) | |||||||
| B2 | Bahrain | 106/9 (20 overs) | |||||||
| SF1W | Oman | 184/9 (20 overs) 21/0 (Super Over) | |||||||
| SF2W | Nepal | 184/6 (20 overs) 10/1 (Super Over) | |||||||
| B1 | United Arab Emirates | 134/9 (20 overs) | |||||||
| A2 | Nepal | 135/2 (17.1 overs) | |||||||
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