2024 ACC Men's Challenger Cup

2024 ACC Men's Challenger Cup

Official logo for 2024 ACC Men's Challenger Cup
Dates	27 January – 11 February 2024
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)
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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]

Squads

Bhutan [9]	Cambodia	China	Indonesia	Japan [10]
Thinley Jamtsho (c) Ranjung Mikyo Dorji (vc) Manoj Adhikari (wk) Namgang Chejay (wk) Jigme Dorji Karma Dorji Sherab Loday Tashi Phuntsho Suprit Pradhan Tenjin Rabgey Namgay Thinley Ngawang Thinley Tenzin Wangchuk Sonam Yeshey	Luqman Butt (c) Manish Sharma (vc) Etienne Beukes Phon Bunthean Sharwan Godara Lakshit Gupta Uday Hathinjar (wk) Utkarsh Jain Gulam Murtaza Anish Prasad Chanthoeun Rathanak Te Senglong Ram Sharan Salvin Stanly Pel Vannak (wk)	Wei Guo Lei (c, wk) Wu Jiaqi Deng Jinqi Huang Junjie (wk) Zou Kui Ma Qiancheng Xie Qiulai (wk) Tian Sen Qun Luo Shilin Zhao Tianle Qiu Yingjie Zong Yuechao Zhuang Zelin Chen Zhuo Yue	Kadek Gamantika (c) Ketut Artawan Gede Arta Ferdinando Banunaek Danilson Hawoe Dharma Kesuma (wk) Maxi Koda Gede Priandana Kirubasankar Ramamoorthy Ahmad Ramdoni (wk) Dhanesh Shetty Padmakar Surve Anjar Tadarus	Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming (c) Koji Abe Ryan Drake Charles Hinze Kazuma Kato-Stafford Piyush Kumbhare Wataru Miyauchi (wk) Sabaorish Ravichandran Reo Sakurano-Thomas Alexander Shirai-Patmore (wk) Declan Suzuki-McComb Ibrahim Takahashi Makoto Taniyama Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake
Maldives [11]	Myanmar	Saudi Arabia [12]	Singapore	Thailand
Hassan Rasheed (c) Umar Adam Ismail Ali Mohamed Azzam (wk) Azyan Farhath Ibrahim Hassan Shaof Hassan (wk) Mohamed Ishmath Nazwan Ismail Adam Khalaf Rasheed Rassam Ibrahim Rizan Kaushal Rodrigo Mohamed Sanoor	Htet Lin Aung (c) Myat Thu Aung Thuya Aung Khin Aye (wk) Paing Danu Nay Lin Htun Aung Ko Ko Swann Htet Ko Ko (wk) Kaung Htet Kyaw Htet Lin Oo Nyein Cham Soe Ko Ko Lin Thu Ye Naing Tun (wk) Pyae Phyo Wai Sai Htet Wai	Hisham Sheikh (c) Ishtiaq Ahmad Manan Ali (wk) Atif-Ur-Rehman Haseeb Ghafoor (wk) Usman Khalid Faisal Khan Zuhair Muhammad Usman Najeeb Shahzaib Waji Ul Hassan Waqar Ul Hassan Abdul Waheed Imran Yousaf	Aritra Dutta (c) Sachin Banamali Harsha Bharadwaj Surendran Chandramohan Aman Desai (wk) Avi Dixit Rezza Gaznavi Ramesh Kalimuthu Amartya Kaul Anish Paraam Akshay Puri Rohan Rangarajan Raoul Sharma Ishaan Swaney	Austin Lazarus (c) Chaloemwong Chatphaisan Jandre Coetzee Phanuwat Desungnoen Daniel Jacobs Sarawut Maliwan Khanitson Namchaikul Narawit Nuntarach Chanchai Pengkumta Robert Raina Yodsak Saranonnakkun Nopphon Senamontree Phiriyapong Suanchuai (wk) Mukesh Thakur Akshaykumar Yadav (wk)

Qualifier stage

Points table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Qualification
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

Source: ESPNcricinfo ^[13]

Fixtures

27 January 2024 09:30 Scorecard

Myanmar   72/8 (20 overs)	v	Cambodia 74/3 (9.1 overs)
Pyae Phyo Wai 16 (15) Utkarsh Jain 3/21 (4 overs)		Luqman Butt 43* (29) Ko Ko Lin Thu 1/9 (3 overs)

Cambodia won by 7 wickets Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Hardeep Jadeja (Sin) and Osama Saad Alnadwi (Sau) Player of the match: Luqman Butt (Cam)

• Cambodia won the toss and elected to field.

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28 January 2024 09:30 Scorecard

Cambodia   130/5 (20 overs)	v	China 37 (15.2 overs)
Etienne Beukes 33* (25) Zong Yuechao 2/19 (4 overs)		Wei Guo Lei 14 (25) Sharwan Godara 4/5 (4 overs)

Cambodia won by 93 runs Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Melattur Krishnakumar (Mdv) and Osama Saad Alnadwi (Sau) Player of the match: Sharwan Godara (Cam)

• Cambodia won the toss and elected to bat.
• Huang Junjie (Chn) made his T20I debut.

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29 January 2024 09:30 Scorecard

China   74 (19.3 overs)	v	Myanmar 75/9 (19.3 overs)
Zong Yuechao 19* (25) Htet Lin Aung 3/16 (4 overs)		Paing Danu 14 (18) Chen Zhuo Yue 3/7 (4 overs)

Myanmar won by 1 wicket Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Arif Ansari (Tha) and Geda Suda Arsa (Idn) Player of the match: Htet Lin Aung (Mya)

• Myanmar won the toss and elected to field.
• Xie Qiulai (Chn) made his T20I debut.

Group stage

Group A

Points table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Qualification
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

Source: ESPNcricinfo ^[13]

Fixtures

1 February 2024 09:30 Scorecard

Saudi Arabia   192/6 (20 overs)	v	Cambodia 104 (19.3 overs)
Abdul Waheed 99 (58) Salvin Stanly 2/8 (1 over)		Lakshit Gupta 24 (20) Imran Yousaf 3/16 (3.3 overs)

Saudi Arabia won by 88 runs Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Narayanan Sivan (Mas) Player of the match: Abdul Waheed (Sau)

• Cambodia won the toss and elected to field.
• Waji Ul Hassan (Sau) made his T20I debut.

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1 February 2024 13:50 Scorecard

Indonesia   132/7 (20 overs)	v	Bhutan 116 (19.4 overs)
Anjar Tadarus 36 (29) Tenzin Wangchuk 3/22 (4 overs)		Suprit Pradhan 28 (20) Maxi Koda 2/12 (4 overs)

Indonesia won by 16 runs Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Arif Ansari (Tha) and Melattur Krishnakumar (Mdv) Player of the match: Anjar Tadarus (Idn)

• Bhutan won the toss and elected to field.

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3 February 2024 09:30 Scorecard

Bhutan   89 (18.5 overs)	v	Saudi Arabia 93/2 (11 overs)
Ranjung Mikyo Dorji 22 (22) Usman Khalid 4/6 (2 overs)		Haseeb Ghafoor 47* (40) Thinley Jamtsho 1/14 (2 overs)

Saudi Arabia won by 8 wickets Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Melattur Krishnakumar (Mdv) and Narayanan Sivan (Mas) Player of the match: Usman Khalid (Sau)

• Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to field.
• Zuhair Muhammad (Sau) made his T20I debut.

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3 February 2024 13:50 Scorecard

Indonesia   127/6 (20 overs)	v	Cambodia 132/4 (19.2 overs)
Kirubasankar Ramamoorthy 54 (41) Gulam Murtaza 3/33 (4 overs)		Luqman Butt 52 (48) Ferdinando Banunaek 2/20 (4 overs)

Cambodia won by 6 wickets Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Samad Akbar (Tha) and Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) Player of the match: Luqman Butt (Cam)

• Indonesia won the toss and elected to bat.

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5 February 2024 09:30 Scorecard

Saudi Arabia   185/4 (20 overs)	v	Indonesia 103/9 (20 overs)
Faisal Khan 77 (60) Gede Arta 3/35 (4 overs)		Kirubasankar Ramamoorthy 27 (19) Hisham Sheikh 3/16 (4 overs)

Saudi Arabia won by 82 runs Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Arif Ansari (Tha) and Dorji Loday (Bhu) Player of the match: Faisal Khan (Sau)

• Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to bat.
• Shahzaib (Sau) made his T20I debut.

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5 February 2024 13:50 Scorecard

Cambodia   174/6 (20 overs)	v	Bhutan 164/6 (20 overs)
Uday Hathinjar 68 (45) Tenzin Wangchuk 3/38 (4 overs)		Thinley Jamtsho 66* (34) Sharwan Godara 2/15 (4 overs)

Cambodia won by 10 runs Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Samad Akbar (Tha) and Hardeep Jadeja (Sin) Player of the match: Uday Hathinjar (Cam)

• Cambodia won the toss and elected to bat.

Group B

Points table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Qualification
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

Source: ESPNcricinfo ^[13]

Fixtures

2 February 2024 09:30 Scorecard

Singapore   199/4 (20 overs)	v	Maldives 158/8 (20 overs)
Surendran Chandramohan 82 (55) Ibrahim Hassan 2/42 (4 overs)		Ismail Ali 33 (17) Ramesh Kalimuthu 3/19 (4 overs)

Singapore won by 41 runs Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Samad Akbar (Tha) and Geda Suda Arsa (Idn) Player of the match: Surendran Chandramohan (Sin)

• Singapore won the toss and elected to bat.
• Mohamed Ishmath (Mdv) and Sachin Banamali (Sin) both made their T20I debuts.

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2 February 2024 13:50 Scorecard

Japan   166/6 (20 overs)	v	Thailand 120 (16.5 overs)
Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming 74 (48) Chanchai Pengkumta 2/28 (4 overs)		Chaloemwong Chatphaisan 31 (12) Reo Sakurano-Thomas 6/26 (3.5 overs)

Japan won by 46 runs Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Hardeep Jadeja (Sin) and Osama Saad Alnadwi (Sau) Player of the match: Reo Sakurano-Thomas (Jpn)

• Thailand won the toss and elected to field.
• Austin Lazarus, Mukesh Thakur (Tha) and Koji Abe (Jpn) all made their T20I debuts.

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4 February 2024 09:30 Scorecard

Singapore   115/9 (20 overs)	v	Thailand 116/3 (18.1 overs)
Avi Dixit 23 (23) Mukesh Thakur 4/23 (4 overs)		Chaloemwong Chatphaisan 70* (53) Avi Dixit 2/14 (4 overs)

Thailand won by 7 wickets Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Geda Suda Arsa (Idn) and Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) Player of the match: Chaloemwong Chatphaisan (Tha)

• Singapore won the toss and elected to bat.

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4 February 2024 13:50 Scorecard

Japan   150/8 (20 overs)	v	Maldives 108 (18.4 overs)
Declan Suzuki-McComb 26 (22) Ibrahim Hassan 2/27 (4 overs)		Umar Adam 40 (26) Makoto Taniyama 3/12 (2.4 overs)

Japan won by 42 runs Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Arif Ansari (Tha) and Narayanan Sivan (Mas) Player of the match: Sabaorish Ravichandran (Jpn)

• Japan won the toss and elected to bat.
• Charles Hinze and Kazuma Kato-Stafford (Jpn) both made their T20I debuts.

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6 February 2024 09:30 Scorecard

Singapore   176/5 (20 overs)	v	Japan 142/8 (20 overs)
Anish Paraam 92* (58) Piyush Kumbhare 2/13 (4 overs)		Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake 35 (27) Avi Dixit 3/27 (4 overs)

Singapore won 34 runs Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Narayanan Sivan (Mas) Player of the match: Anish Paraam (Sin)

• Japan won the toss and elected to field.

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6 February 2024 13:50 Scorecard

Maldives   127/7 (20 overs)	v	Thailand 128/2 (9.4 overs)
Azyan Farhath 66* (56) Nopphon Senamontree 2/16 (4 overs)		Akshaykumar Yadav 66* (28) Umar Adam 2/40 (3.4 overs)

Thailand won by 8 wickets Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Hardeep Jadeja (Sin) and Osama Saad Alnadwi (Sau) Player of the match: Jandre Coetzee (Tha)

• Maldives won the toss and elected to bat.

Play-offs

9th place play-off

30 January 2024 09:30 Scorecard

China   129/4 (20 overs)	v	Myanmar 82/9 (20 overs)
Wei Guo Lei 70 (61) Myat Thu Aung 1/13 (3 overs)		Paing Danu 19 (32) Ma Qiancheng 5/9 (4 overs)

China won by 47 runs Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Samad Akbar (Tha) and Dorji Loday (Bhu) Player of the match: Wei Guo Lei (Chn)

• Myanmar won the toss and elected to field.
• Ma Qiancheng became the first player for China to take a five-wicket haul in men's T20Is. ^[14]

5th place play-off

7 February 2024 09:30 Scorecard

Indonesia   131/8 (20 overs)	v	Thailand 132/3 (17.2 overs)
Padmakar Surve 46 (44) Jandre Coetzee 3/9 (4 overs)		Akshaykumar Yadav 49 (36) Gede Arta 1/19 (4 overs)

Thailand won by 7 wickets Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Dorji Loday (Bhu) and Osama Saad Alnadwi (Sau) Player of the match: Jandre Coetzee (Tha)

• Thailand won the toss and elected to field.

7th place play-off

7 February 2024 13:50 Scorecard

Maldives   137/8 (20 overs)	v	Bhutan 105 (18.2 overs)
Azyan Farhath 43 (45) Tenzin Wangchuk 2/24 (4 overs)		Jigme Dorji 30 (31) Ibrahim Hassan 4/12 (3.2 overs)

Maldives won by 32 runs Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Samad Akbar (Tha) and Geda Suda Arsa (Idn) Player of the match: Azyan Farhath (Mdv)

• Maldives won the toss and elected to bat.

Knockout stage

	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)

Semi-finals

9 February 2024 09:30 Scorecard

Japan   97/8 (20 overs)	v	Saudi Arabia 98/0 (9 overs)
Declan Suzuki-McComb 26 (21) Usman Najeeb 3/13 (4 overs)		Faisal Khan 72* (33)

Saudi Arabia won by 10 wickets Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Hardeep Jadeja (Sin) and Narayanan Sivan (Mas) Player of the match: Usman Najeeb (Sau)

• Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to field.

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9 February 2024 13:50 Scorecard

Singapore   109 (20 overs)	v	Cambodia 113/4 (14.5 overs)
Raoul Sharma 39 (34) Ram Sharan 3/14 (4 overs)		Ram Sharan 61* (46) Ramesh Kalimuthu 2/17 (3 overs)

Cambodia won by 6 wickets Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Samad Akbar (Tha) and Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) Player of the match: Ram Sharan (Cam)

• Singapore won the toss and elected to bat.

3rd place play-off

11 February 2024 09:30 Scorecard

Japan   215/3 (20 overs)	v	Singapore 216/2 (19.2 overs)
Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming 78 (42) Harsha Bharadwaj 1/30 (3 overs)		Aritra Dutta 122 (63) Sabaorish Ravichandran 1/22 (4 overs)

Singapore won by 8 wickets Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Osama Saad Alnadwi (Sau) and Geda Suda Arsa (Idn) Player of the match: Aritra Dutta (Sin)

• Singapore won the toss and elected to field.
• Aritra Dutta (Sin) scored his first century in men's T20Is. ^[15]

Final

11 February 2024 13:50 Scorecard

Cambodia   147/5 (20 overs)	v	Saudi Arabia 151/5 (17.3 overs)
Luqman Butt 80* (53) Hisham Sheikh 2/25 (4 overs)		Hisham Sheikh 47* (41) Utkarsh Jain 2/34 (4 overs)

Saudi Arabia won by 5 wickets Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Samad Akbar (Tha) and Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) Player of the match: Hisham Sheikh (Sau)

• Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to field.

Final standings

Position	Team	Qualification
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

References

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External links

• Series home at ESPNcricinfo