# 2008 ACC Trophy Elite

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

## 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:
| Afghanistan  Bahrain  Hong Kong  Kuwait  Malaysia | Nepal  Qatar  Saudi Arabia  Singapore  United Arab Emirates |

## Squads

| Afghanistan | Bahrain | Hong Kong | Kuwait | Malaysia |
| Nowroz Mangal (Captain) Karim Khan Raees Ahmadzai Dawlat Ahmadzai Ahmed Shah Mohammad Nabi Noor Ali Hasti Gul Samiullah Shenwari Asghar Afghan Hamid Hassan Noor ul Haq Shafiqullah 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) | 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) |
| Nepal | Qatar | Saudi Arabia | Singapore | United Arab Emirates |
| Binod Das (Captain) Paras Khadka Gyanendra Malla Mehboob Alam Mahesh Chhetri Sanjam Regmi Raj Pradhan Dipendra Chaudhary Sharad Vesawkar Amrit Bhattarai Shakti Gauchan Kanishka Chaugai Paresh Lohani Basanta 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) | 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) Mohammad Tauqir Saqib Ali Arshad Ali Zahid Shah Amjad Ali Shadeep Silva Salman Farooq Fahad Alhashmi Shoaib Sarwar Riaz Khaliq Qasim Zubair Rameez Shahzad Mohammad 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
### Group A
#### Points Tables

Green denotes teams going into the semifinals.
| Team | Pld | W | T | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Afghanistan | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | +0.96 |
| United Arab Emirates | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | +0.70 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | +0.51 |
| Bahrain | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | +0.27 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | -2.54 |
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#### Fixtures and results

* 25 July 2008 scorecard
| Malaysia 267/8 (50 overs) | v | Bahrain 234 all out (49.2 overs) |
| Eszrafiq Azis 63 (42) Halal Abbasi 2/36 (10 overs) | | Imran Sajjad 73 (53) DM Sockalingham 4/35 (9 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)
* 25 July 2008 scorecard
| Saudi Arabia 228 all out (50 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 199 all out (30 overs) |
| Khalid Butt 110 (96) Khurram Khan 3/31 (9 overs) | | Saqib Ali 48 (42) Shafiq Ahmed 5/45 (9 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)
* 26 July 2008 scorecard
| Afghanistan 214 all out (48.1 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 217/7 (47.1 overs) |
| Nowroz Mangal 55 (67) Riaz Khaliq 3/27 (8.2 overs) | | Arshad Ali 68 (127) Karim Khan 3/33 (10 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)
* 26 July 2008 scorecard
| Bahrain 335 all out (49.2 overs) | v | Saudi Arabia 137 all out (33.1 overs) |
| Azeem-ul-Haq 79 (80) Abid Naseem 2/31 (5 overs) | | Suhrab Kilsingatakam 52 (93) Fahad Sadeq 3/34 (10 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)
* 27 July 2008 scorecard
| Afghanistan 263/9 (50 overs) | v | Malaysia 197 all out (46.3 overs) |
| Karim Khan 81 (73) Dinesh Sockalingham 4/49 (10 overs) | | M Krishnamurthi 34 (62) Nowroz Mangal 5/24 (5.3 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)
* 28 July 2008 scorecard
| Bahrain 122 all out (33.3 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 124/2 (28 overs) |
| Imran Sajjad 47 (46) Mohammad Tauqir 4/19 (9 overs) | | Arshad Ali 46* (96) Azeem-ul-Haq 2/20 (6 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)
* 29 July 2008 scorecard
| Saudi Arabia 172 all out (48.2 overs) | v | Afghanistan 175/4 (25.3 overs) |
| Abid Naseem 67 (100) Mohammad Nabi 5/30 (8.2 overs) | | Noor Ali 70* (49) Ijaz Sagheer 1/27 (5 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)
* 29 July 2008 scorecard
| United Arab Emirates 211 all out (42.2 overs) | v | Malaysia 154 all out (47.1 overs) |
| Arshad Ali 67 (103) Dinesh Sockalingham 6/39 (9 overs) | | M Krishnamurthi 40* (71) Shadeep Silva 3/19 (7.1 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)
* 30 July 2008 scorecard
| Afghanistan 293/9 (50 overs) | v | Bahrain 286/9 (50 overs) |
| Asghar Stanikzai 102 (110) Halal Abbasi 2/25 (7 overs) | | Ashraf Mughal 81 (81) Dawlat Ahmadzi 3/39 (8 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)
* 30 July 2008 scorecard
| Malaysia 316/8 (50 overs) | v | Saudi Arabia 123 all out (32.2 overs) |
| Rakesh Madhavan 101 (137) Sarfaz Ahmed 2/33 (10 overs) | | Sarfaz Ahmed 44 (73) P Wickramasinghe 3/8 (5.2 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)

### Group B
#### Points Tables

Green denotes teams going into the semifinals.
| Team | Pld | W | T | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Nepal | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +1.15 |
| Hong Kong | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | +1.48 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | -0.62 |
| Kuwait | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | -0.91 |
| Qatar | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | -1.26 |
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#### Fixtures and results

* 25 July 2008 scorecard
| Singapore 227/9 (50 overs) | v | Qatar 192 all out (44.5 overs) |
| Chetan Suryawanshi 49 (38) Abbas Khan 2/19 (10 overs) | | Tamoor Sajjad 58 (97) Chaminda Ruwan 5/46 (10 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)
* 25 July 2008 scorecard
| Nepal 245/7 (50 overs) | v | Hong Kong 201/9 (50 overs) |
| Paras Khadka 81 (72) Ilyas Gull 2/31 (6 overs)) | | Hussain Butt 52 (123) Basanta Regmi 3/41 (10 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)
* 26 July 2008 scorecard
| Singapore 237/9 (50 overs) | v | Kuwait 238/9 (44.5 overs) |
| Chetan Suryawanshi 65 (68) Mohammad Murad 3/41 (5 overs) | | Mohammad Ahsan 91* (76) Chaminda Ruwan 3/32 (10 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)
* 26 July 2008 scorecard
| Qatar 171 all out (47.2 overs) | v | Nepal 172/3 (37.3 overs) |
| Omer Taj 48 (77) Shakti Gauchan 3/25 (10 overs) | | Gyanendra Malla 76* (82) Abbas Khan 2/40 (10 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)
* 27 July 2008 scorecard
| Kuwait 161 all out (46.2 overs) | v | Hong Kong 164/4 (35.5 overs) |
| Sibtain Raza 47 (70) Nadeem Ahmed 4/28 (10 overs) | | Hussain Butt 53* (66) Saad Khalid 1/18 (2 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)
* 28 July 2008 scorecard
| Hong Kong 276 all out (49.2 overs) | v | Qatar 100 all out (19 overs) |
| Munir Dar 89 (52) Haroon Abbasi 3/41 (10 overs) | | Omer Taj 30 (32) Irfan Ahmed 5/47 (8 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)
* 28 July 2008 scorecard
| Singapore 155/9 (50 overs) | v | Nepal 156/4 (40.5 overs) |
| Chaminda Ruwan 40 (83) Mehboob Alam 3/25 (10 overs) | | Paras Khadka 71* (97) Pramodh Raja 2/28 (8 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)
* 29 July 2008 scorecard
| Qatar 322 all out (48.3 overs) | v | Kuwait 298 all out (46 overs) |
| Mohammad Jahangir (86) Sibtain Raza 5/55 (9.3 overs) | | Jagath Roshantha (55) Sardar Badshah 3/45 (10 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)
* 30 July 2008 scorecard
| Hong Kong 255/9 (50 overs) | v | Singapore 162 all out (36.2 overs) |
| Skhawat Ali 83 (119) Mohammad Ali 5/45 (9 overs) | | Glenn Meyer 35 (31) Najeeb Amar 3/34 (8.2 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)
* 30 July 2008 scorecard
| Kuwait 103 all out (38.1 overs) | v | Nepal 104/3 (29 overs) |
| Mohammad Murad 19 (17) Shakti Gauchan 3/5 (8 overs) | | Sharad Vesawkar 28* (80) Mohammad Javed 2/18 (10 overs) |
* Nepal won by 7 wickets Selangor Turf Club, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: K Mahmood (Pakistan) and SH Sarathkumara (Sri Lanka) Player of the match: Mehboob Alam (Nepal)

## Semifinals

* 1 August 2008 scorecard
| Hong Kong 154/9 (50 overs) | v | Afghanistan 129 all out (43.4 overs) |
| Najeeb Amar 29* (41) Hasti Gul 3/23 (10 overs) | | Ahmed Shah 36 (69) Nadeem Ahmed 3/14 (7.4 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)
* 1 Aug 2008 scorecard
| Nepal 166 all out (47.3 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 172/4 (45.4 overs) |
| Shakti Gauchan 35 (67) Khurram Khan 3/20 (6.3 overs) | | Khurram Khan 42* (56) Sharad Vesawkar 2/34 (6 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)

## Playoffs

* 1 August 2008 scorecard
| Singapore 229 all out (49.2 overs) | v | Malaysia 211 all out (47.2 overs) |
| Glenn Meyer (75) Dinesh Sockalingham 3/44 (10 overs) | | Suhan Alagaratnam (107) B Narender Reddy 3/27 (4.2 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)
* 5th Place Playoff
* 2 August 2008 scorecard
| Saudi Arabia 164 all out (45 overs) | v | Qatar 165/1 (22.3 overs) |
| Suhrab Kilsingatakam 65 (129) Abbas Khan 5/20 (10 overs) | | Omer Taj 82* (72) Abid Naseem 1/23 |
* 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)
* 9th Place Playoff
* 2 August 2008 scorecard
| Bahrain 328/6 (50 overs) | v | Kuwait 229 all out (38.4 overs) |
| Tahir Dar 85* (51) Mohammad Murad 2/31 (6 overs) | | Mohammad Ahsan 66 (75) Halal Abbasi 4/55 (10 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)
* 7th Place Playoff
* 2 August 2008 scorecard
| Nepal 210/8 (50 overs) | v | Afghanistan 213/7 (48.2 overs) |
| Kanishka Chaugai 43 (63) Aimal Wafa 2/35 (10 overs) | | Mohammad Nabi 55 (56) Paras Khadka 3/34 (9 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)
* 3rd Place Playoff

## Final

* 3 August 2008 scorecard
| United Arab Emirates 243/7 (50 overs) | v | Hong Kong 205/7 (34.1 overs) |
| Saqib Ali 102 (134) Najeeb Amar 4/61 (10 overs) | | Najeeb Amar 100 (80) Shadeep Silva 3/39 (7 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)
* 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

| Most Runs | Most Runs | Most Wickets | 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 |