# 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge

The 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge was a cricket tournament in Chiang Mai, Thailand, taking place between 12 and 21 January 2009. It gave Associate and Affiliate members of the Asian Cricket Council experience of international one-day cricket and also formed part of the regional qualifications for the ICC World Cricket League. The top 2 teams were promoted to the ACC Trophy Elite Division. Bhutan also qualified for the WCL82010

## Teams

After the 2006 ACC Trophy a decision was made to split the tournament into two divisions. The placement of teams in these divisions was determined by the final rankings in the previous tournament. The top ten teams went into the 2008 ACC Trophy Elite with the remaining teams taking part in the 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge. They were also joined by China who had not previously taken part in the tournament.
Qualified through participation in 2006 ACC Trophy:
| Bhutan  Brunei  Iran  Maldives | Myanmar  Oman  Thailand |
Newcomers to the ACC Trophy:
* China

## Squads

| Bhutan | Brunei | China | Iran |
| Tshering Dorji (Captain) Jigme Singye Thinley Jamtsho Dilip Subba Sonam Tobgay Phuntsho Wangdi Tandin Wangchuk Lobzang Yonten Dorji Kumar Subba Kencho Norbu Dampo Thinley Tenzin Jigme Norbu (Manager) Damber Gurung (Coach) | Sujaya Kamat (Captain) Manzur Ahmed Muhamad Aleem Shorin Khan Basil George Sreejith Kallumpurath Muhammed Alaudeen Samantha Weerakoon Rabeek Abbas Jahaber Kiyasudeen Kamalan Muneeswaran Sinnathurai Induraj Arafat Mahabub Abdul Gaffoor Haji Mosli Mohamad (Manager) Manzur Ahmed (Coach) | Zhao Yang (Captain) Guo Fengfeng Wang Ronggang Dong Chao Wang Lei Zhang Xinliang Fu Xianchao He Nengxing Ai Di Jiang Shuyao Zhang Peng Li Jian Zhang Yufei Zhong Wenyi Zhang Tian (Manager) Rashid Khan (Coach) | Nariman Bakhtiar (Captain) Atnan Zehi Ebrahim Badrouzeh Shoeyb Khorsand Yahya Sheikhi Rashed Bameri Abdolvahab Ebrahimipour Alireza Shatrang Shirmohammad Balouchnezhad Liaghat-Ali Narouie Yousef Raeisi Loghman Sheikhi Zaven Babakhani Dadkhoda Shahouzehi (Manager) Armond Nahabedian (Coach) |
| Maldives | Myanmar | Oman | Thailand |
| Moosa Kaleem (Captain) Afzal Faiz Abdulla Shahid Abdulla Shafeeu Neesham Nasir Ismail Nihad Mahafooz Mohamed Husham Ibrahim Ahmed Hussain Mihusan Hamid Hassan Ibrahim Ahmed Hussein Shafraz Jaleel Muviath Ghanee Ali Manik (Manager) Hemal Mendis (Coach) | Ye Myo Tun (Captain) Aye Min Than Sai Sai Wunna Thaw Zin San Thein Myat Min Hein Win Maw Zaw Htoo Maung Maung Win Naung Hhlaing Tun Myo Win Kyaw Ze Za Ye Min Soe Aung Aung Than Win (Manager) Michael Moosajee (Coach) | Hemal Mehta (Captain) Sultan Ahmed Adnan Ilyas Nileshkumar Parmar Vaibhav Wategaonkar Awal Khan Farhan Khan Aamer Ali Haider Ali Masqood Hussain Ameet Sampat Khalid Al-Balushi Khalid Rasheed Qaim Hussain Madhu Jesrani (Manager) Mazhar Khan (Coach) | Zeeshan Khan (Captain) John Hottinger Noppon Sennamontree Thanatit Jeerapanthawong Anil Tanwani Ashish Dey Deepak Saraff Akshay Desai Nishadh Rego Shyam Sideek Vishal Pathkar Shishir Turilay Shaik Cader Shreyanshu Tewari |
* Match Officials
* Ramani Batumalai (Malaysia) Koo Chai Huat (Malaysia) Upul Kaluhetti (Thailand) Mohammed Kamrulzzaman (Thailand) Ashwin Kumar Rana (Thailand) K.G. Srinivasan (Singapore)

## Group stage
### Points Tables

Green denotes teams going into the semifinals. Yellow denotes teams that play in the fifth place playoff and remain in the ACC Trophy Challenge Division. Red denotes teams that play in the seventh place playoff and remain in the ACC Trophy Challenge Division.
| Group A Team Pld W T L NR Pts NRR  Oman330006+6.81  Bhutan320104+0.41  Brunei310202−0.90  Myanmar300300−3.76 | Group B Team Pld W T L NR Pts NRR  Thailand330006+1.88  Maldives320104+3.27  Iran310202+0.67  China300300−6.29 |

### Fixtures and results

* 12 January 2009 scorecard
| Bhutan 111 all out (33.4 overs) | v | Oman 112/2 (13.1 overs) |
| Thinley Jamtsho 38 (69) Farhan Khan 3–19 (7 overs) | | Adnan Ilyas 50 (36) Lobzang Yonten 1–33 (3 overs) |
* Oman won by 8 wickets Prem Oval, Chiang Mai Umpires: M Kamrulzzaman (Thailand) and AK Rana (Thailand) Player of the match: Hemal Mehta (Oman)
* 12 January 2009 scorecard
| Thailand 165 all out (49 overs) | v | Maldives 159 all out (47.5 overs) |
| Nishadh Rego 62 (123) Abdulla Shahid 3–13 (10 overs) | | Afzal Faiz 37 (69) Ashish Dey 3–34 (10 overs) |
* Thailand won by 6 runs Gymkhana Club, Chiang Mai
* 13 January 2009 scorecard
| Myanmar 152/9 (50 overs) | v | Brunei 156/3 (32.2 overs) |
| Ye Myo Tun 20 (78) Jahaber Kiyasudeen 3–23 (9 overs) | | Basil George 36* (60) Aung Aung 1–18 (5 overs) |
* Brunei won by 7 wickets Prem Oval, Chiang Mai
* 13 January 2009 scorecard
| Iran 369/6 (50 overs) | v | China 62 all out (23.3 overs) |
| Nariman Bakhtiar 120 (66) Dong Chao 2–60 (8 overs) | | Dong Chao 16 (47) Abdolvahab Ebrahimpour 2–7 (4 overs) |
* Iran won by 307 runs Gymkhana Club, Chiang Mai Umpires: U Kaluhetti (Thailand) and AK Rama (Thailand) Player of the match: Shirmohammad Balouchnezhad (Iran)
* 14 January 2009 scorecard
| Iran 79 all out (35 overs) | v | Maldives 80/2 (16 overs) |
| Shirmohammad Balouchnezhad 17 (36) Mohamed Mahfooz 4–6 (6 overs) | | Moosa Kaleem 24* (29) Nariman Bakhtiar 2–26 (7 overs) |
* Maldives won by 8 wickets Prem Oval, Chiang Mai Umpires: U Kaluhetti (Thailand) and M Kamrulzzaman (Thailand) Player of the match: Mohamed Mahfooz (Maldives)
* 14 January 2009 scorecard
| Brunei 204/9 (50 overs) | v | Bhutan 205/3 (41.2 overs) |
| Sinnathurai Induraj 90 (86) Lobzang Yonten 3–22 (10 overs) | | Kencho Norbu 50 (75) Shorin Khan 1–36 (9 overs) |
* Bhutan won by 7 wickets Gymkhana Club, Chiang Mai
* 15 January 2009 scorecard
| China 39 all out (12.2 overs) | v | Thailand 40/2 (6.3 overs) |
| Wang Ronggang 8 (4) Noppon Senamontree 4–21 (4.2 overs) | | John Hottinger 14 (11) Zhang Yufei 1–11 (3.3 overs) |
* Thailand won by 8 wickets Prem Oval, Chiang Mai Umpires: KC Huat (Malaysia) and R Batumalai (Malaysia) Player of the match: Noppon Senamontree (Thailand)
* 15 January 2009 scorecard
| Myanmar 12 all out (15.3 overs) | v | Oman 14/0 (2.2 overs) |
| Ye Min Soe 3 (33) Adnan Ilyas 3–1 (1.3 overs) | | Nilesh Parmar 7* (12) |
* Oman won by 10 wickets Gymkhana Club, Chiang Mai
* 16 January 2009 scorecard
| Brunei 131 all out (42 overs) | v | Oman 132/1 (14.5 overs) |
| Jahaber Kiyasudeen 42 (62) Farhan Khan 3–17 (9 overs) | | Adnan Ilyas 89* (51) Sinnathurai Induraj 1–38 (5 overs) |
* Oman won by 9 wickets Prem Oval, Chiang Mai Umpires: U Kaluhetti (Thailand) and M Kamrulzzaman (Thailand) Player of the match: Adnan Ilyas (Oman)
* 16 January 2009 scorecard
| Thailand 230 all out (49.1 overs) | v | Iran 133 all out (42.4 overs) |
| Zeeshan Khan 63 (65) Atnan Zehi 3–31 (7 overs) | | Nariman Bakhtiar 40 (52) Ashish Dey 3–18 (9 overs) |
* Thailand won by 97 runs Gymkhana Club, Chiang Mai Umpires: KC Huat (Malaysia) and KG Srinivasan (Singapore) Player of the match: Zeeshan Khan (Thailand)
* 17 January 2009 scorecard
| Maldives 376/7 (50 overs) | v | China 61 all out (32.2 overs) |
| Afzal Faiz 93 (62) Li Jian 3–57 (10 overs) | | Wang Ronggang 21 (49) Ismail Nahid 6–10 (10 overs) |
* Maldives won by 315 runs Prem Oval, Chiang Mai Umpires: R Batumalai (Malaysia) and KG Srinivasan (Singapore)
* 17 January 2009 scorecard
| Myanmar 64 all out (28.4 overs) | v | Bhutan 65/2 (9.5 overs) |
| Kyaw Ze Ya 10 (18) Dampo 6–17 (9.4 overs) | | Dorji 24* 29 Aye Min Than 1–22 (3 overs) |
* Bhutan won by 8 wickets Gymkhana Club, Chiang Mai

## Semifinals

Winners of the semifinals were promoted to the ACC Trophy Elite Division and qualified for the final.
* 19 January 2009 scorecard
| Oman 240 all out (49.4 overs) | v | Maldives 138 all out (39.1 overs) |
| Sultan Ahmed 95* (115) Hassan Ibrahim 4–29 (10 overs) | | Shafraz Jaleel 25 (38) Amir Ali 3–4 (4.1 overs) |
* Oman won by 102 runs Prem Oval, Chiang Mai Umpires: M Kamruzzaman (Thailand) and AK Rana (Thailand) Player of the match: Sultan Ahmed (Oman)
* 19 January 2009 scorecard
| Bhutan 164 all out (48.4 overs) | v | Thailand 72 all out (25.2 overs) |
| Kencho Norbu 45 (135) Zeeshan Khan 2–29 (9 overs) | | Anil Tanwani 20 (52) Dampo 5–29 (8.2 overs) |
* Bhutan won by 92 runs Gymkhana Club, Chiang Mai
* Bhutan qualified for WCL8 as a result of this match.

## Final and Playoffs

* 20 January 2009 scorecard
| China 181 all out (39.3 overs) | v | Myanmar 63 all out (20.3 overs) |
| Li Jian 32 (43) Aye Min Than 4–54 (9.3 overs) | | Aye Min Than 19 (40) Li Jian 4–16 (4.3 overs) |
* China won by 118 runs Gymkhana Club, Chiang Mai Umpires: U Kaluhetti (Thailand) and M Kamruzzaman (Thailand) Player of the match: Li Jian (China)
* 7th Place Playoff
* 20 January 2009 scorecard
| Iran 274/9 (50 overs) | v | Brunei 222 all out (46.2 overs) |
| Shirmohammed Balouchnezhad 74 (79) Abdul Gaffoor 2–24 (4 overs) | | Sujay Kamat 40 (54) Loghman Sheikhi 4–33 (10 overs) |
* Iran won by 52 runs Prem Oval, Chiang Mai Umpires: R Batumalai (Malaysia) and KC Huat (Malaysia) Player of the match: Shirmohammad Balouchnezhad (Iran)
* 5th Place Playoff
* 21 January 2009 scorecard
| Thailand 60 all out (33.3 overs) | v | Maldives 62/2 (15 overs) |
| Shyam Sideek 14 (33) Abdulla Shahid 4–13 (10 overs) | | Ahmed Hassan 26* (41) Ashish Dey 1–10 (2 overs) |
* Maldives won by 8 wickets Gymkhana Club, Chiang Mai
* 3rd Place Playoff
* 21 January 2009 scorecard
| Oman 322/9 (50 overs) | v | Bhutan 109 all out (42.1 overs) |
| Adnan Ilyas 138 (118) Lobzang Yonten 2–56 (10 overs) | | Kumar Subba 40 (103) Hemal Mehta 3–22 (10 overs) |
* Oman won by 213 runs Prem Oval, Chiang Mai Umpires: M Kamruzzaman (Thailand) and AK Rana (Thailand) Player of the match: Adnan Ilyas (Oman)
* Final

## Final Placings

| Pos | Team | Promotion/Relegation |
| 1st | Oman | Promoted to ACC Trophy Elite Division |
| 2nd | Bhutan | Qualified for 2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Eight |
| 3rd | Maldives | Remain in ACC Trophy Challenge Division |
| 4th | Thailand | Remain in ACC Trophy Challenge Division |
| 5th | Iran | Remain in ACC Trophy Challenge Division |
| 6th | Brunei | Remain in ACC Trophy Challenge Division |
| 7th | China | Remain in ACC Trophy Challenge Division |
| 8th | Myanmar | Remain in ACC Trophy Challenge Division |