# 2024 ACC Men's Premier Cup

The 2024 ACC Men's Premier Cup was the second edition of ACC Premier Cup, took place in April 2024. It served as the final stage of qualification for the 2025 Asia Cup Tournament. UAE won the tournament by defeating Oman in the final, and thus qualified for the 2025 Asia Cup. It featured the 8 highest-ranked ACC associate members who were joined by two finalists from 2024 ACC Men's Challenger Cup.
Cambodia and Saudi Arabia qualified for the tournament after finishing as the top two teams in the 2024 ACC Men's Challenger Cup. Nepal were the defending champions, having won the 2023 edition (which was a One Day International tournament).

## Teams and qualifications

Following teams were qualified for the tournament.
| Means of qualification | Venue | Nos. | Teams |
| ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings | — | 8 | Nepal United Arab Emirates Oman Hong Kong Malaysia Kuwait Bahrain Qatar |
| 2024 ACC Men's Challenger Cup | Thailand | 2 | Saudi Arabia Cambodia |
| Total | | 10 | |

## Squads

| Bahrain | Cambodia | Hong Kong | Kuwait | Malaysia |
| Haider Butt (c) Sohail Ahmed Imran Ali (wk) Sarfaraz Ali Imran Anwar Junaid Aziz Ahmer Bin Nasir (wk) Rizwan Butt Ali Dawood Abdul Majid Abbasi Abdul Majid Malik Ubaid Martuza Umer Toor (wk) Sathaiya Veerapathiran | Luqman Butt (c) Etienne Beukes Phon Bunthean Sharwan Godara Lakshit Gupta Uday Hathinjar (wk) Utkarsh Jain Asanka Gunarathne Gulam Murtaza Anish Prasad Chanthoeun Rathanak Te Senglong Ram Sharan Salvin Stanly Pel Vannak (wk) Vimukthi Viraj | Nizakat Khan (c) Zeeshan Ali (wk) Martin Coetzee Adit Gorawara (wk) Babar Hayat Ateeq Iqbal Raunaq Kapur Aizaz Khan Ehsan Khan Yasim Murtaza Nasrulla Rana Dhananjay Rao Anshuman Rath Ayush Shukla | Mohammad Aslam (c) Ilyas Ahmed Clinto Anto Meet Bhavsar (wk) Adnan Idrees Parvinder Kumar Nimish Lathief Sayed Monib Usman Patel (wk) Yasin Patel Shahrukh Quddus Ravija Sandaruwan Bilal Tahir Muhammad Umar | Virandeep Singh (c) Muhammad Amir Aqeel Wahid Syed Aziz Ahmad Faiz Ainool Hafizs (wk) Rizwan Haider Khizar Hayat Sharvin Muniandy Nazmus Sakib Pavandeep Singh Vijay Unni Muhammad Wafiq Zubaidi Zulkifle |
| Nepal | Oman | Qatar | Saudi Arabia | United Arab Emirates |
| Rohit Paudel (c) Dipendra Singh Airee Kushal Bhurtel Abinash Bohara Pratis GC Gulsan Jha Sundeep Jora Sompal Kami Karan KC Kushal Malla Lalit Rajbanshi Anil Sah Aasif Sheikh (wk) Bibek Yadav | Zeeshan Maqsood (c) Shakeel Ahmed Pratik Athavale (wk) Fayyaz Butt Aqib Ilyas Khalid Kail Kaleemullah Ayaan Khan Bilal Khan Mehran Khan Naseem Khushi (wk) Mohammad Nadeem Kashyap Prajapati Rafiullah | Muhammad Tanveer (c) Mohammed Ahnaff Saqlain Arshad Amir Farooq Mohammed Irshad Muhammad Jabir Shahzaib Jamil (wk) Ikramullah Khan Kamran Khan Gayan Munaweera Himanshu Rathod Musawar Shah Rifayi Theruvath | Hisham Sheikh (c) Kashif Abbas Ishtiaq Ahmad Manan Ali (wk) Usman Ali Faisal Khan Saad Khan Usman Khalid Usman Najeeb Zain Ul Abidin Waji Ul Hassan Ahmad Raza Atif-Ur-Rehman Abdul Waheed | Muhammad Waseem (c) Aayan Afzal Khan Rahul Bhatia Muhammad Farooq Syed Haider Basil Hameed Asif Khan Ali Naseer Akif Raja Omid Shafi Rahman Alishan Sharafu Junaid Siddique Vishnu Sukumaran Tanish Suri (wk) |

## Group stage

The 10 participating nations were divided into two groups, with top two teams from each group advancing to the knockout stage.

### Group A
#### Points table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | Nepal | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1.557 | Advanced to the knockout stage |
| 2 | Hong Kong | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | −0.128 | Advanced to the knockout stage |
| 3 | Qatar | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | −0.453 | |
| 4 | Saudi Arabia | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.306 | |
| 5 | Malaysia | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | −0.918 | |

#### Fixtures

* 12 April 2024 14:30 Scorecard
| Malaysia 143/3 (20 overs) | v | Nepal 144/5 (19.2 overs) |
| Virandeep Singh 72* (57) Dipendra Singh Airee 2/14 (4 overs) | | Aasif Sheikh 32 (35) Virandeep Singh 3/35 (4 overs) |
* Nepal won by 5 wickets Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Al Amarat Umpires: Tariq Rasheed (Pak) and Shiju Sam (UAE) Player of the match: Dipendra Singh Airee (Nep)
* Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat.
* Nazmus Sakib (Mas) made his T20I debut.
* Rohit Paudel (Nep) scored his 1,000th run in T20Is.
* 12 April 2024 14:30 Scorecard
| Hong Kong 201/7 (20 overs) | v | Qatar 175/8 (20 overs) |
| Nizakat Khan 59 (37) Musawar Shah 2/20 (4 overs) | | Saqlain Arshad 50 (34) Ehsan Khan 4/31 (4 overs) |
* Hong Kong won by 26 runs Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 2, Al Amarat Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Naveen D'Souza (Kuw) Player of the match: Nizakat Khan (HK)
* Hong Kong won the toss and elected to bat.
* 13 April 2024 14:30 Scorecard
| Nepal 210/7 (20 overs) | v | Qatar 178/9 (20 overs) |
| Dipendra Singh Airee 64* (21) Himanshu Rathod 3/26 (4 overs) | | Muhammad Tanveer 63 (33) Lalit Rajbanshi 2/23 (4 overs) |
* Nepal won by 32 runs Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Al Amarat Umpires: Vinod Babu (Oma) and Shiju Sam (UAE) Player of the match: Dipendra Singh Airee (Nep)
* Nepal won the toss and elected to bat.
* Dipendra Singh Airee (Nep) hit six sixes in one over, off the bowling of Kamran Khan, becoming the third cricketer to achieve this in T20Is.
* 13 April 2024 14:30 Scorecard
| Malaysia 146/7 (20 overs) | v | Saudi Arabia 134 (19.1 overs) |
| Aqeel Wahid 65* (46) Usman Najeeb 3/33 (4 overs) | | Waji Ul Hassan 40 (29) Virandeep Singh 3/20 (3.1 overs) |
* Malaysia won by 12 runs Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 2, Al Amarat Umpires: Tabarak Dar (HK) and Morshed Ali Khan (Ban) Player of the match: Aqeel Wahid (Mas)
* Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat.
* Ahmad Raza (Sau) made his T20I debut.
* 14 April 2024 14:30 Scorecard
| Saudi Arabia 202/8 (20 overs) | v | Hong Kong 147 (18.5 overs) |
| Abdul Waheed 77 (51) Ehsan Khan 3/31 (4 overs) | | Nizakat Khan 73 (51) Zain Ul Abidin 3/16 (4 overs) |
* Saudi Arabia won by 55 runs Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 2, Al Amarat Umpires: Abdul Jabbar (Qat) and Tariq Rasheed (Pak) Player of the match: Abdul Waheed (Sau)
* Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to bat.
* Raunaq Kapur (HK) made his T20I debut.
* Faisal Khan (Sau) scored his 1,000th run in T20Is.
* 15 April 2024 10:00 Scorecard
| Hong Kong 114 (17.5 overs) | v | Nepal 117/2 (12.2 overs) |
| Anshuman Rath 34 (26) Abinash Bohara 3/29 (4 overs) | | Aasif Sheikh 40 (18) Yasim Murtaza 1/28 (4 overs) |
* Nepal won by 8 wickets Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Al Amarat Umpires: Abdul Jabbar (Qat) and Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) Player of the match: Abinash Bohara (Nep)
* Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
* The match was reduced to 18 overs per side due to rain.
* Aasif Sheikh (Nep) scored his 1,000th run in T20Is.
* 15 April 2024 10:00 Scorecard
| Malaysia 151/5 (18 overs) | v | Qatar 153/6 (17.2 overs) |
| Ahmad Faiz 38 (22) Himanshu Rathod 2/22 (4 overs) | | Kamran Khan 37 (23) Virandeep Singh 2/33 (3.2 overs) |
* Qatar won by 4 wickets Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 2, Al Amarat Umpires: Rahul Asher (Oma) and Vinay Kumar Jha (Nep) Player of the match: Himanshu Rathod (Qat)
* Qatar won the toss and elected to field.
* The match was reduced to 18 overs per side due to rain.
* 16 April 2024 10:00 Scorecard
| Qatar 153/9 (20 overs) | v | Saudi Arabia 138/8 (20 overs) |
| Muhammad Tanveer 43 (44) Usman Khalid 2/11 (4 overs) | | Waji Ul Hassan 57 (40) Gayan Munaweera 2/27 (4 overs) |
* Qatar won by 15 runs Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Al Amarat Umpires: Vinay Kumar Jha (Nep) and Morshed Ali Khan (Ban) Player of the match: Gayan Munaweera (Qat)
* Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to field.
* 17 April 2024 10:00 Scorecard
| Malaysia 140/9 (20 overs) | v | Hong Kong 144/3 (12.1 overs) |
| Ahmad Faiz 32 (31) Ayush Shukla 3/24 (4 overs) | | Babar Hayat 83 (35) Pavandeep Singh 2/36 (4 overs) |
* Hong Kong won by 7 wickets Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Al Amarat Umpires: Sundaram Ravi (Ind) and Shiju Sam (UAE) Player of the match: Babar Hayat (HK)
* Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field.
* 17 April 2024 10:00 Scorecard
| Saudi Arabia 73/7 (8 overs) | v | Nepal 75/4 (7.2 overs) |
| Abdul Waheed 37 (16) Abinash Bohara 2/15 (2 overs) | | Gulsan Jha 32* (19) Ishtiaq Ahmad 2/7 (2 overs) |
* Nepal won by 6 wickets Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 2, Al Amarat Umpires: Morshed Ali Khan (Ban) and Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) Player of the match: Gulsan Jha (Nep)
* Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
* The match was reduced to 8 overs per side due to a wet outfield.

### Group B
#### Points table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | Oman | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2.149 | Advanced to the knockout stage |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates (Q) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2.772 | Advanced to the knockout stage |
| 3 | Kuwait | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.569 | |
| 4 | Bahrain | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | −0.031 | |
| 5 | Cambodia | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −5.903 | |

#### Fixtures

* 12 April 2024 10:00 Scorecard
| Oman 177/3 (20 overs) | v | Bahrain 174/8 (20 overs) |
| Aqib Ilyas 62 (53) Abdul Majid 1/12 (2 overs) | | Imran Ali 50 (34) Bilal Khan 2/19 (4 overs) |
* Oman won by 3 runs Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Al Amarat Umpires: Prageeth Rambukwella (SL) and Sundaram Ravi (Ind) Player of the match: Aqib Ilyas (Oma)
* Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.
* 12 April 2024 10:00 Scorecard
| Kuwait 178/8 (20 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 179/3 (17.3 overs) |
| Clinto Anto 54 (23) Ali Naseer 3/26 (3 overs) | | Alishan Sharafu 90* (48) Shahrukh Quddus 2/49 (4 overs) |
* United Arab Emirates won by 7 wickets Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 2, Al Amarat Umpires: Rahul Asher (Oma) and Morshed Ali Khan (Ban) Player of the match: Alishan Sharafu (UAE)
* United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected field.
* Muhammad Farooq and Vishnu Sukumaran (UAE) both made their T20I debuts.
* 13 April 2024 10:00 Scorecard
| Cambodia 141/5 (20 overs) | v | Kuwait 144/2 (11.2 overs) |
| Ram Sharan 30 (30) Shahrukh Quddus 1/22 (3 overs) | | Ravija Sandaruwan 61 (33) Luqman Butt 1/17 (2 overs) |
* Kuwait won by 8 wickets Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Al Amarat Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Sundaram Ravi (Ind) Player of the match: Ravija Sandaruwan (Kuw)
* Cambodia won the toss and elected to bat.
* Asanka Gunarathne and Vimukthi Viraj (Cam) both made their T20I debuts.
* 13 April 2024 10:00 Scorecard
| United Arab Emirates 235/6 (20 overs) | v | Bahrain 199/8 (20 overs) |
| Alishan Sharafu 78 (41) Imran Anwar 3/40 (3 overs) | | Imran Anwar 60 (22) Aayan Afzal Khan 3/26 (4 overs) |
* United Arab Emirates won by 37 runs Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 2, Al Amarat Umpires: Vinay Kumar Jha (Nep) and Prageeth Rambukwella (SL) Player of the match: Aayan Afzal Khan (UAE)
* Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.
* Syed Haider (UAE) made his T20I debut.
* 14 April 2024 10:00 Scorecard
| Oman 154/6 (11 overs) | v | Cambodia 91/7 (11 overs) |
| Naseem Khushi 69 (27) Sharwan Godara 2/25 (2 overs) | | Luqman Butt 41* (21) Aqib Ilyas 4/17 (3 overs) |
* Oman won by 63 runs Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 2, Al Amarat Umpires: Ahmed Shah Durrani (Afg) and Naresh D'Souza (Kuw) Player of the match: Aqib Ilyas (Oma)
* Cambodia won the toss and elected to field.
* The match was reduced to 11 overs per side due to rain.
* Aqib Ilyas (Oma) took his first hat-trick in T20Is.
* 15 April 2024 14:30 Scorecard
| United Arab Emirates 142/5 (15 overs) | v | Oman 147/1 (12.4 overs) |
| Asif Khan 66 (45) Bilal Khan 3/11 (3 overs) | | Kashyap Prajapati 53* (38) Ali Naseer 1/21 (2 overs) |
* Oman won by 9 wickets Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Al Amarat Umpires: Tabarak Dar (HK) and Sundaram Ravi (Ind) Player of the match: Bilal Khan (Oma)
* Oman won the toss and elected to field.
* The match was reduced to 15 overs per side due to rain.
* Bilal Khan (Oma) took his 100th wicket in T20Is.
* 15 April 2024 14:30 Scorecard
| Kuwait 161/7 (15 overs) | v | Bahrain 135/6 (15 overs) |
| Meet Bhavsar 54 (36) Ali Dawood 2/25 (3 overs) | | Sathaiya Veerapathiran 27* (15) Yasin Patel 3/8 (3 overs) |
* Kuwait won by 26 runs Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 2, Al Amarat Umpires: Vinod Babu (Oma) and Ahmed Shah Durrani (Afg) Player of the match: Yasin Patel (Kuw)
* Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.
* The match was reduced to 15 overs per side due to rain.
* 16 April 2024 14:30 Scorecard
| Cambodia 83 (17.2 overs) | v | Bahrain 87/3 (13.1 overs) |
| Luqman Butt 21 (20) Ali Dawood 3/8 (2 overs) | | Haider Butt 39* (27) Utkarsh Jain 2/8 (4 overs) |
* Bahrain won by 7 wickets Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Al Amarat Umpires: Naresh D'Souza (Kuw) and Sundaram Ravi (Ind) Player of the match: Ali Dawood (Bhr)
* Cambodia won the toss and elected to bat.
* 17 April 2024 14:30 Scorecard
| Cambodia 76 (19 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 79/1 (5.1 overs) |
| Sharwan Godara 24 (18) Aayan Afzal Khan 3/7 (4 overs) | | Muhammad Waseem 48 (18) Ram Sharan 1/11 (1 over) |
* United Arab Emirates won by 9 wickets Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Al Amarat Umpires: Tabarak Dar (HK) and Prageeth Rambukwella (SL) Player of the match: Aayan Afzal Khan (UAE)
* Cambodia won the toss and elected to bat.
* 17 April 2024 14:30 Scorecard
| Oman 200/9 (20 overs) | v | Kuwait 154/9 (20 overs) |
| Ayaan Khan 45 (20) Adnan Idrees 2/31 (4 overs) | | Clinto Anto 34 (15) Zeeshan Maqsood 4/29 (4 overs) |
* Oman won by 46 runs Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 2, Al Amarat Umpires: Abdul Jabbar (Qat) and Vinay Kumar Jha (Nep) Player of the match: Zeeshan Maqsood (Oma)
* Kuwait won the toss and elected to field.

## Knockout stage
### Bracket

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final | Final |
| A1 | Nepal | 119/9 (20 overs) | | | |
| B2 | United Arab Emirates | 123/4 (17.2 overs) | | | |
| B2 | United Arab Emirates | 123/4 (17.2 overs) | B2 | United Arab Emirates | 204/4 (20 overs) |
| | | | B1 | Oman | 149/9 (20 overs) |
| A2 | Hong Kong | 130/9 (20 overs) | B1 | Oman | 149/9 (20 overs) |
| B1 | Oman | 132/5 (19.2 overs) | 3rd place play-off | 3rd place play-off | 3rd place play-off |
| | | | A1 | Nepal | 139/8 (20 overs) |
| | | | A2 | Hong Kong | 140/6 (19.3 overs) |

### Semi-finals
#### 1st semi-final

* 19 April 2024 09:00 Scorecard
| Nepal 119/9 (20 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 123/4 (17.2 overs) |
| Sundeep Jora 50 (40) Basil Hameed 2/4 (2 overs) | | Alishan Sharafu 55* (41) Gulsan Jha 2/21 (2.2 overs) |
* United Arab Emirates won by 6 wickets Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Al Amarat Umpires: Rahul Asher (Oma) and Morshed Ali Khan (Ban) Player of the match: Alishan Sharafu (UAE)
* United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to field.

#### 2nd semi-final

* 19 April 2024 14:30 Scorecard
| Hong Kong 130/9 (20 overs) | v | Oman 132/5 (19.2 overs) |
| Zeeshan Ali 36* (25) Aqib Ilyas 3/14 (4 overs) | | Aqib Ilyas 62* (51) Aizaz Khan 3/16 (4 overs) |
* Oman won by 5 wickets Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Al Amarat Umpires: Prageeth Rambukwella (SL) and Tariq Rasheed (Pak) Player of the match: Aqib Ilyas (Oma)
* Oman won the toss and elected to field.

### 3rd place play-off

* 20 April 2024 14:30 Scorecard
| Nepal 139/8 (20 overs) | v | Hong Kong 140/6 (19.3 overs) |
| Dipendra Singh Airee 44* (29) Ayush Shukla 3/17 (3 overs) | | Anshuman Rath 65* (50) Sompal Kami 3/33 (4 overs) |
* Hong Kong won by 4 wickets Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Al Amarat Umpires: Morshed Ali Khan (Ban) and Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) Player of the match: Anshuman Rath (HK)
* Nepal won the toss and elected to bat.
* Anshuman Rath (HK) scored his 1,000th run in T20Is.

### Final

* 21 April 2024 14:30 Scorecard
| United Arab Emirates 204/4 (20 overs) | v | Oman 149/9 (20 overs) |
| Muhammad Waseem 100 (56) Bilal Khan 2/35 (4 overs) | | Pratik Athavale 49 (30) Junaid Siddique 3/38 (4 overs) |
* United Arab Emirates won by 55 runs Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 1, Al Amarat Umpires: Tariq Rasheed (Pak) and Sundaram Ravi (Ind) Player of the match: Muhammad Waseem (UAE)
* Oman won the toss and elected to field.

## Final standings

| Pos. | Team | Qualification |
| 1 | United Arab Emirates | Qualified for the 2025 Asia Cup & the 2024 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup |
| 2 | Oman | Qualified for the 2025 Asia Cup & the 2024 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup |
| 3 | Hong Kong | Qualified for the 2025 Asia Cup & the 2024 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup |
| 4 | Nepal | |
| 5 | Kuwait | |
| 6 | Qatar | |
| 7 | Saudi Arabia | |
| 8 | Bahrain | |
| 9 | Malaysia | |
| 10 | Cambodia | |