Dates | 27 January – 11 February 2024 |
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Administrator(s) | Asian Cricket Council |
Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
Tournament format(s) | Group stage and knockouts |
Host(s) | Thailand |
Champions | Saudi Arabia (2nd title) |
Runners-up | Cambodia |
Participants | 10 |
Matches | 22 |
Player of the series | Luqman Butt |
Most runs | Luqman Butt (245) |
Most wickets | Sharwan Godara (12) Utkarsh Jain (12) |
The 2024 ACC Men's Challenger Cup, the second edition of the ACC Men's Challenger Cup, was played in Thailand in January and February 2024. [1] All of the matches had Twenty20 International (T20I) status, and the tournament was a part of the qualification pathway for the 2025 Asia Cup. [2]
Cambodia and Saudi Arabia qualified for the Premier Cup by winning their respective semi-final matches. [3] [4] Singapore beat Japan by 8 wickets in the third-place play-off. [5] Saudi Arabia beat Cambodia by 5 wickets in the final. [6] The victory meant that Saudi Arabia retained the trophy, [7] having won the 50-over format tournament in 2023. [8]
Bhutan [9] | Cambodia | China | Indonesia | Japan [10] |
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Maldives [11] | Myanmar | Saudi Arabia [12] | Singapore | Thailand |
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
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1 | Cambodia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4.269 | Advanced to the group stage |
2 | Myanmar | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −1.353 | Advanced to the 9th place play-off |
3 | China | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | −2.415 |
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Pyae Phyo Wai 16 (15) Utkarsh Jain 3/21 (4 overs) |
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Etienne Beukes 33* (25) Zong Yuechao 2/19 (4 overs) | Wei Guo Lei 14 (25) Sharwan Godara 4/5 (4 overs) |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
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1 | Saudi Arabia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4.282 | Advanced to the semi-finals |
2 | Cambodia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | −1.140 | |
3 | Indonesia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1.264 | Advanced to the 5th place play-off |
4 | Bhutan | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | −1.674 | Advanced to the 7th place play-off |
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Abdul Waheed 99 (58) Salvin Stanly 2/8 (1 over) | Lakshit Gupta 24 (20) Imran Yousaf 3/16 (3.3 overs) |
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Anjar Tadarus 36 (29) Tenzin Wangchuk 3/22 (4 overs) | Suprit Pradhan 28 (20) Maxi Koda 2/12 (4 overs) |
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Ranjung Mikyo Dorji 22 (22) Usman Khalid 4/6 (2 overs) | Haseeb Ghafoor 47* (40) Thinley Jamtsho 1/14 (2 overs) |
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Kirubasankar Ramamoorthy 54 (41) Gulam Murtaza 3/33 (4 overs) | Luqman Butt 52 (48) Ferdinando Banunaek 2/20 (4 overs) |
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Faisal Khan 77 (60) Gede Arta 3/35 (4 overs) | Kirubasankar Ramamoorthy 27 (19) Hisham Sheikh 3/16 (4 overs) |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
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1 | Singapore | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1.015 | Advanced to the semi-finals |
2 | Japan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.900 | |
3 | Thailand | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.810 | Advanced to the 5th place play-off |
4 | Maldives | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | −3.054 | Advanced to the 7th place play-off |
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Surendran Chandramohan 82 (55) Ibrahim Hassan 2/42 (4 overs) | Ismail Ali 33 (17) Ramesh Kalimuthu 3/19 (4 overs) |
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Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming 74 (48) Chanchai Pengkumta 2/28 (4 overs) | Chaloemwong Chatphaisan 31 (12) Reo Sakurano-Thomas 6/26 (3.5 overs) |
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Declan Suzuki-McComb 26 (22) Ibrahim Hassan 2/27 (4 overs) | Umar Adam 40 (26) Makoto Taniyama 3/12 (2.4 overs) |
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Wei Guo Lei 70 (61) Myat Thu Aung 1/13 (3 overs) | Paing Danu 19 (32) Ma Qiancheng 5/9 (4 overs) |
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Padmakar Surve 46 (44) Jandre Coetzee 3/9 (4 overs) | Akshaykumar Yadav 49 (36) Gede Arta 1/19 (4 overs) |
Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
A1 | Saudi Arabia | 98/0 (9) | |||||||
B2 | Japan | 97/8 (20) | |||||||
A1 | Saudi Arabia | 151/5 (17.3) | |||||||
A2 | Cambodia | 147/5 (20) | |||||||
A2 | Cambodia | 113/4 (14.5) | |||||||
B1 | Singapore | 109 (20) | 3rd place play-off | ||||||
B2 | Japan | 215/3 (20) | |||||||
B1 | Singapore | 216/2 (19.2) |
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Declan Suzuki-McComb 26 (21) Usman Najeeb 3/13 (4 overs) | Faisal Khan 72* (33) |
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Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming 78 (42) Harsha Bharadwaj 1/30 (3 overs) | Aritra Dutta 122 (63) Sabaorish Ravichandran 1/22 (4 overs) |
Position | Team | Qualification |
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1 | Saudi Arabia | Qualified for 2024 ACC Men's Premier Cup |
2 | Cambodia | |
3 | Singapore | |
4 | Japan | |
5 | Thailand | |
6 | Indonesia | |
7 | Maldives | |
8 | Bhutan | |
9 | China | |
10 | Myanmar | |
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