2008 ACC Trophy Elite

Administrator(s)

Asian Cricket Council

Cricket format

50 overs per side

Tournament format(s)

round robin with playoffs

Host(s)

Malaysia

Champions

Hong Kong

Participants

10 teams

Matches played

Man of the Series

Arshad Ali

Most runs

Omer Taj

Most wickets

Dinesh Sockalingham

Official website

Asiancricket.org

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The 2008 ACC Trophy Elite was a cricket tournament in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, taking place between 25 July and 3 August 2008. It gives Associate and Affiliate members of the Asian Cricket Council experience of international one-day cricket and also forms part of the regional qualifications for the ICC World Cricket League

1 Teams
2 Squads
3 Group stage
4 Semifinals
5 Final and Playoffs
6 Final Placings
7 Statistics
8 References
9 External links

Teams

After the 2006 ACC Trophy it was decided to split the tournament into two divisions. The placement of teams in the divisions was based on their final positions in the last ACC Trophy. The top ten teams went on to take part in the 2008 ACC Trophy Elite and the remaining teams were placed in a lower division, the 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge. The teams that made it into the Trophy Elite were:

Squads

Afghanistan	Bahrain	Hong Kong	Kuwait
Nowroz Mangal (Captain) Karim Khan Raees Ahmadzi Dawlat Ahmadzi Ahmed Shah Mohammad Nabi Noor Ali Hasti Gul Samiullah Shenwari Asghar Stanikzai Hamid Hassan Noor ul Haq Shaifqullah Shafaq Aimal Wafa Zarab Shah (Manager) Taj Malik (Coach)	Fahad Sadeq (Captain) Mirza Yaqoob Azeem-ul-Haq Akmal Malik Muhammad Yaqoob Abdul Waheed Qamar Saeed Ashraf Mughal Tahir Dar Halal Abbasi Haroon Zafar Imran Sajjad Rizwan Baig Dharmesh Kumar M.H.M. Sadeq (Manager) Mukhtar Ahmed Yousuf (Coach)	Tabarak Dar (Captain) Zain Abbas Zafran Ali James Atkinson Ilyas Gul Roy Lamsam Shakeel Haq Ashish Gadhia Hussain Butt Irfan Ahmed Nadeem Ahmed Najeeb Amar Skhawat Ali Moner Ahmed Jawad Ashraf (Manager) Aaftab Habib (Coach)	Hisham Mirza (Captain) Mustansar Hasan Saud Qamar Sibtain Raza Abdulrehman Liaqat Saad Khalid Mohammad Akhudzada Mohammad Murad Khalid Yameen Mohammad Ahsan Jagath Roshantha Mohammad Javed Faisal Nadeem Nadeem Malik Emad Al Jassam (Manager) Tahir Khan (Coach)

Malaysia	Nepal	Qatar	Saudi Arabia
Rohan Suppiah (Captain) Rakesh Madhavan Suhan Alagaratnam Darvin Muralitharan Nasir Ali Ahmad Faiz Eszrafiq Azis Shukri Rahim Dinesh Sockalingham P. Wickramasinghe Suresh Navaratnam M. Krishnamurthi Anwar Arudin Rosman Zakaria Ramesh Menon (Manager) Romesh Kaluwitharana (Coach)	Binod Das (Captain) Paras Khadka Gyanendra Malla Mahaboob Alam Mahesh Chhetri Sanjam Regmi Raj Kumar Pradhan Dipendra Chaudhary Sharad Vesawkar Amrit Bhattarai Shakti Gauchan Kanishka Chaugai Paresh Lohani Basant Regmi Pawan Agarwal (Manager) Roy Dias (Coach)	Omer Taj (Captain) Mohammad Jahangir Saleem Akhtar Abbas Khan Tamoor Sajjad Imtinan Mirza Faisal Noor Usman Malik Haroon Abbasi Sardar Badshah Rusharat Ali Zaheer-ud-din Ibrahim Anwar Packer Asram Muhammad Nazar Malik (Manager) Shamas u din Khadas (Coach)	Sarfaz Ahmed (Captain) Suhrab Kilsingatakam Asif Shamshad Hammad Saeed Khashef Riaz Sajjad Hussain Abid Naseem Shafiq Ahmed Khalid Butt Hussain Anwar Mohammad Amjad Abbas Al-Nadwi Ahmed Al-Nadwi Ijaz Sagheer Nidal Khan (Manager) Mansoor Akhtar (Coach)

Singapore	United Arab Emirates
Chaminda Ruwan (Captain) Glenn Meyer Muhammad Ali Narender Reddy Chetan Suryawanshi Sagar Kulkarni Vivek Vedagiri Shoaib Razzak Rizwan Madakia Christopher Janik Irfan Madakia Dharmichand Mulewa Munish Arora Pramodh Raja Harnam Singh (Manager) M. Venkataramana (Coach)	Khurram Khan (Captain) Mohammed Tauqir Saqib Ali Arshad Ali Zahid Shah Amjad Ali Shadeep Silva Salman Farooq Fahad Al Hashimi Shoaib Sarwar Riaz Khaliq Qasim Zubair Rameez Shahzad Muhammad Iqbal Mazhar Khan (Manager) Vasbert Drakes (Coach)

Match Officials
Tanvir Ahmed (Bangladesh) D Ekanayake (Sri Lanka) SS Hazare (India) Aminul Islam (Bangladesh) RR Jadeja (India) GF Labrooy (Sri Lanka) Khalid Mahmood (Pakistan) SJ Phadkar (India) BB Pradhan (Nepal) SS Prasad (Singapore) Anisur Rahman (Bangladesh) Samiur Rahman (Bangladesh) RJ Ratnayake (Sri Lanka) Aziz-ur-Rehman (Pakistan) Abdus Sami (Pakistan) SH Sarathkumara (Sri Lanka) Anis Siddiqi (Pakistan) Iqbal Sikander (Pakistan)

Group stage

Points Tables

Green denotes teams going into the semifinals.

Group A^[1]

Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	NRR
Afghanistan	4	3	1	6	+0.96
United Arab Emirates	4	3	1	6	+0.70
Malaysia	4	2	2	4	+0.51
Bahrain	4	1	3	2	+0.27
Saudi Arabia	4	1	3	2	-2.54

Group B^[2]

Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	NRR
Nepal	4	4	0	8	+1.15
Hong Kong	4	3	1	6	+1.48
Singapore	4	1	3	2	-0.62
Kuwait	4	1	3	2	-0.91
Qatar	4	1	3	2	-1.26

Fixtures and results

25 July 2008 scorecard	Malaysia 267/8 (50 overs)	v	Bahrain 234 all out (49.2 overs)	Malaysia won by 33 runs Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: A Rahman (Bangladesh) and A Siddiqi (Pakistan) Player of the match: Eszrafiq Aziz (Malaysia)
	Eszrafiq Azis 63 (42) Halal Abbasi 2/36 (10 overs)		Imran Sajjad 73 (53) DM Sockalingham 4/35 (9 overs)

25 July 2008 scorecard	Singapore 227/9 (50 overs)	v	Qatar 192 all out (44.5 overs)	Singapore won by 35 runs Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: SJ Phadkar (India) and T Ahmed (Bangladesh) Player of the match: Chaminda Ruwan (Singapore)
	Chetan Suryawanshi 49 (38) Abbas Khan 2/19 (10 overs)		Tamoor Sajjad 58 (97) Chaminda Ruwan 5/46 (10 overs)

25 July 2008 scorecard	Saudi Arabia 228 all out (50 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 199 all out (30 overs)	Saudi Arabia won by 29 runs Royal Military College, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: BB Pradhan (Nepal) and SH Sarathkumara (Sri Lanka) Player of the match: Shafiq Ahmed (Saudi Arabia)
	Khalid Butt 110 (96) Khurram Khan 3/31 (9 overs)		Saqib Ali 48 (42) Shafiq Ahmed 5/45 (9 overs)

25 July 2008 scorecard	Nepal 245/7 (50 overs)	v	Hong Kong 201/9 (50 overs)	Nepal won by 44 runs Selangor Turf Club, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: S Prasad (Singapore) and D Ekanayaka (Sri Lanka) Player of the match: Paras Khadka (Nepal)
	Paras Khadka 81 (72) Ilyas Gull 2/31 (6 overs))		Hussain Butt 52 (123) Basant Regmi 3/41 (10 overs

26 July 2008 scorecard	Afghanistan 214 all out (48.1 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 217/7 (47.1 overs)	United Arab Emirates won by 3 wickets Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: D Ekanayake (Sri Lanka) and SS Prasad (Singapore) Player of the match: Arshad Ali (United Arab Emirates)
	Nowroz Mangal 55 (67) Riaz Khaliq 3/27 (8.2 overs)		Arshad Ali 68 (127) Karim Khan 3/33 (10 overs)

26 July 2008 scorecard	Singapore 237/9 (50 overs)	v	Kuwait 238/9 (44.5 overs)	Kuwait won by 1 wicket Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: SS Hazare (India) and Khalid Mahmood (Pakistan) Player of the match: Mohammad Ahsan (Kuwait)
	Chetan Suryawanshi 65 (68) Mohammad Murad 3/41 (5 overs)		Mohammad Ahsan 91* (76) Chaminda Ruwan 3/32 (10 overs)

26 July 2008 scorecard	Qatar 171 all out (47.2 overs)	v	Nepal 172/3 (37.3 overs)	Nepal won by 7 wickets Royal Military College, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: A Rahman (Bangladesh) and SJ Phadkar (India) Player of the match: Shakti Gauchan (Nepal)
	Omer Taj 48 (77) Shakti Gauchan 3/25 (10 overs)		Gyanendra Malla 76* (82) Abbas Khan 2/40 (10 overs)

26 July 2008 scorecard	Bahrain 335 all out (49.2 overs)	v	Saudi Arabia 137 all out (33.1 overs)	Bahrain won by 198 runs Selangor Turf Club, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: A Siddiqi (Pakistan) and T Ahmed (Bangladesh) Player of the match: Azeem-ul-Haq (Bahrain)
	Azeem-ul-Haq 79 (80) Abid Naseem 2/31 (5 overs)		Suhrab Kilsingatakam 52 (93) Fahad Sadeq 3/34 (10 overs)

27 July 2008 scorecard	Kuwait 161 all out (46.2 overs)	v	Hong Kong 164/4 (35.5 overs)	Hong Kong won by 6 wickets Bayeumas Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: K Mahmood (Pakistan) and BB Bradhan (Nepal) Player of the match: Hussain Butt (Hong Kong)
	Sibtain Raza 47 (70) Nadeem Ahmed 4/28 (10 overs)		Hussain Butt 53* (66) Saad Khalid 1/18 (2 overs)

27 July 2008 scorecard	Afghanistan 263/9 (50 overs)	v	Malaysia 197 all out (46.3 overs)	Afghanistan won by 66 runs Selangor Turf Club, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: SS Hazare (India) and SH Sarathkumara (Sri Lanka) Player of the match: Nowroz Mangal (Afghanistan)
	Karim Khan 81 (73) Dinesh Sockalingham 4/49 (10 overs)		M Krishnamurthi 34 (62) Nowroz Mangal 5/24 (5.3 overs)

28 July 2008 scorecard	Bahrain 122 all out (33.3 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 124/2 (28 overs)	United Arab Emirates won by 8 wickets Bayeumas Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: A Rehman (Pakistan) and SH Sarathkumara (Sri Lanka) Player of the match: Mohammad Tauqir (United Arab Emirates)
	Imran Sajjad 47 (46) Mohammad Tauqir 4/19 (9 overs)		Arshad Ali 46* (96) Azeem-ul-Haq 2/20 (6 overs)

28 July 2008 scorecard	Hong Kong 276 all out (49.2 overs)	v	Qatar 100 all out (19 overs)	Hong Kong won by 176 runs Selangor Turf Club, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: A Rahman (Bangladesh) and SS Prasad (Singapore) Player of the match: Ilyas Gul (Hong Kong)
	Munir Dar 89 (52) Haroon Abbasi 3/41 (10 overs)		Omer Taj 30 (32) Irfan Ahmed 5/47 (8 overs)

28 July 2008 scorecard	Singapore 155/9 (50 overs)	v	Nepal 156/4 (40.5 overs)	Nepal won by 6 wickets Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: D Ekanayake (Sri Lanka) and T Ahmed (Bangladesh) Player of the match: Paras Khadka (Nepal)
	Chaminda Ruwan 40 (83) Mahaboob Alam 3/25 (10 overs)		Paras Khadka 71* (97) Pramodh Raja 2/28 (8 overs)

29 July 2008 scorecard	Saudi Arabia 172 all out (48.2 overs)	v	Afghanistan 175/4 (25.3 overs)	Afghanistan won by 6 wickets Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: SJ Phadkar (India) and BB Pradhan (Nepal) Player of the match: Mohammad Nabi (Afghanistan)
	Abid Naseem 67 (100) Mohammad Nabi 5/30 (8.2 overs)		Noor Ali 70* (49) Ijaz Sagheer 1/27 (5 overs)

29 July 2008 scorecard	Qatar 322 all out (48.3 overs)	v	Kuwait 298 all out (46 overs)	Qatar won by 24 runs Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: SS Hazare (India) and K Mahmood (Pakistan) Player of the match: Mohammad Jahangir (Qatar)
	Mohammad Jahangir (86) Sibtain Raza 5/55 (9.3 overs)		Jagath Roshantha (55) Sardar Badshah 3/45 (10 overs)

29 July 2008 scorecard	United Arab Emirates 211 all out (42.2 overs)	v	Malaysia 154 all out (47.1 overs)	United Arab Emirates won by 57 runs Selangor Turf Club, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: D Ekanayake (Sri Lanka) and SS Prasad (Singapore) Player of the match: Arshad Ali (United Arab Emirates)
	Arshad Ali 67 (103) Dinesh Sockalingham 6/39 (9 overs)		M Krishnamurthi 40* (71) Shadeep Silva 3/19 (7.1 overs)

30 July 2008 scorecard	Afghanistan 293/9 (50 overs)	v	Bahrain 286/9 (50 overs)	Afghanistan won by 7 runs Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: A Rehman (Pakistan) and BB Pradhan (Nepal) Player of the match: Asghar Stanikzai (Afghanistan)
	Asghar Stanikzai 102 (110) Halal Abbasi 2/25 (7 overs)		Ashraf Mughal 81 (81) Dawlat Ahmadzi 3/39 (8 overs)

30 July 2008 scorecard	Hong Kong 255/9 (50 overs)	v	Singapore 162 all out (36.2 overs)	Hong Kong won by 93 runs Royal Military College, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: A Rahman (Bangladesh) and SJ Phadkar (India) Player of the match: Zain Abbas (Hong Kong)
	Skhawat Ali 83 (119) Mohammad Ali 5/45 (9 overs)		Glenn Meyer 35 (31) Najeeb Amar 3/34 (8.2 overs)

30 July 2008 scorecard	Malaysia 316/8 (50 overs)	v	Saudi Arabia 123 all out (32.2 overs)	Malaysia won by 193 runs Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: SS Hazare (India) and T Ahmed (Bangladesh) Player of the match: Rakesh Madhavan (Malaysia)
	Rakesh Madhavan 101 (137) Sarfaz Ahmed 2/33 (10 overs)		Sarfaz Ahmed 44 (73) P Wickramasinghe 3/8 (5.2 overs)

30 July 2008 scorecard	Kuwait 103 all out (38.1 overs)	v	Nepal 104/3 (29 overs)	Nepal won by 7 wickets Selangor Turf Club, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: K Mahmood (Pakistan) and SH Sarathkumara (Sri Lanka) Player of the match: Mahaboob Alam (Nepal)
	Mohammad Murad 19 (17) Shakti Gauchan 3/5 (8 overs)		Sharad Vesawkar 28* (80) Mohammad Javed 2/18 (10 overs)

Semifinals

1 August 2008 scorecard	Hong Kong 154/9 (50 overs)	v	Afghanistan 129 all out (43.4 overs)	Hong Kong won by 25 runs Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: D Ekanayake (Sri Lanka) and BB Pradhan (Nepal) Player of the match: Najeeb Amar (Hong Kong)
	Najeeb Amar 29* (41) Hasti Gul 3/23 (10 overs)		Ahmed Shah 36 (69) Nadeem Ahmed 3/14 (7.4 overs)

1 Aug 2008 scorecard	Nepal 166 all out (47.3 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 172/4 (45.4 overs)	United Arab Emirates won by 6 wickets Selangor Turf Club, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: A Rahman (Bangladesh) and SS Hazare (India) Player of the match: Khurram Khan (United Arab Emirates)
	Shakti Gauchan 35 (67) Khurram Khan 3/20 (6.3 overs)		Khurram Khan 42* (56) Sharad Vesawkar 2/34 (6 overs)

Final and Playoffs

1 August 2008 scorecard	Singapore 229 all out (49.2 overs)	v	Malaysia 211 all out (47.2 overs)	Singapore won by 18 runs Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: K Mahmood (Pakistan) and SH Sarathkumara (Sri Lanka) Player of the match: Suhan Alagaratnam (Malaysia)
	Glenn Meyer (75) Dinesh Sockalingham 3/44 (10 overs)		Suhan Alagaratnam (107) B Narender Reddy 3/27 (4.2 overs)
5th Place Playoff

2 August 2008 scorecard	Saudi Arabia 164 all out (45 overs)	v	Qatar 165/1 (22.3 overs)	Qatar won by 9 wickets Royal Military College, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: SS Hazare (India) and K Mahmood (Pakistan) Player of the match: Omer Taj (Qatar)
	Suhrab Kilsingatakam 65 (129) Abbas Khan 5/20 (10 overs)		Omer Taj 82* (72) Abid Naseem 1/23
9th Place Playoff

2 August 2008 scorecard	Bahrain 328/6 (50 overs)	v	Kuwait 229 all out (38.4 overs)	Bahrain won by 99 runs Selangor Turf Club, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: A Rahman (Bangladesh) and BB Pradhan (Nepal) Player of the match: Tahir Dar (Bahrain)
	Tahir Dar 85* (51) Mohammad Murad 2/31 (6 overs)		Mohammad Ahsan 66 (75) Halal Abbasi 4/55 (10 overs)
7th Place Playoff

2 August 2008 scorecard	Nepal 210/8 (50 overs)	v	Afghanistan 213/7 (48.2 overs)	Afghanistan won by 3 wickets Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: SJ Phadkar (India) and T Ahmed (Bangladesh) Player of the match: Samiullah Shenwari (Afghanistan)
	Kanishka Chaugai 43 (63) Aimal Wafa 2/35 (10 overs)		Mohammad Nabi 55 (56) Paras Khadka 3/34 (9 overs)
3rd Place Playoff

3 August 2008 scorecard	United Arab Emirates 243/7 (50 overs)	v	Hong Kong 205/7 (34.1 overs)	Hong Kong won by 3 wickets (D/L) Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: A Rahman (Bangladesh) and D Ekanayake (Sri Lanka) Player of the match: Najeeb Amar (Hong Kong)
	Saqib Ali 102 (134) Najeeb Amar 4/61 (10 overs)		Najeeb Amar 100 (80) Shadeep Silva 3/39 (7 overs)
Final. Match shortened due to rain; Duckworth-Lewis revised target to win: 203 runs in 36 overs for Hong Kong.

Final Placings

Pos	Team
1st	Hong Kong
2nd	United Arab Emirates
3rd	Afghanistan
4th	Nepal
5th	Singapore
6th	Malaysia
7th	Bahrain
8th	Kuwait
9th	Qatar
10th	Saudi Arabia

Statistics

^[3]

Most Runs		Most Wickets
Omer Taj	294	Dinesh Sockalingham	18
Suhan Alagaratnam	278	Abbas Khan	12
Arshad Ali	268	Najeeb Amar	12
Paras Khadka	209	Halal Abbasi	11
Najeeb Amar	195	Irfan Ahmed	11

References

External links

ACC Trophy Elite 2008 - Official Site

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