Sri Lanka Cricket to host 2023 ACC Men’s Emerging Nations Asia Cup in July

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) have been given the hosting rights for the 2023 Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Men’s Emerging Nations Asia Cup (Emerging Asia Cup) tournament from 14th – 23rd July, 2023. Men’s Emerging teams from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will be joined by National teams from Nepal, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman, after the three (3) Associate members secured their spots by finishing among the Top 3 positions in the 2023 ACC Men’s Premier Cup tournament held in Nepal in April.

Group A of the tournament will feature teams from India A, Pakistan A, Nepal and UAE A, while Group B of the tournament will feature teams from Sri Lanka A, Bangladesh A, Afghanistan A and Oman A. All the teams in each of the groups will play each other in a single round-robin group stage format, after-which the top two (2) teams in the groups will advance to the semifinals of the tournament.

2023 ACC Men’s Emerging Nations Asia Cup Schedule

13th July 2023: Afghanistan A vs Oman A (Scorecard) ; Bangladesh A vs Sri Lanka A (Scorecard)

14th July 2023: Pakistan A vs Nepal (Scorecard) ; India A vs UAE A (Scorecard)

15th July 2023: Oman A vs Bangladesh A (Scorecard) ; Sri Lanka A vs Afghanistan A (Scorecard)

17th July 2023: UAE A vs Pakistan A (Scorecard) ; Nepal vs India A (Scorecard)

18th July 2023: Oman A vs Sri Lanka A (Scorecard) ; Afghanistan A vs Bangladesh A (Scorecard)

19th July 2023: Nepal vs UAE A (Scorecard) ; India A vs Pakistan A (Scorecard)

21st July 2023: Semifinal#1 (Scorecard) ; Semifinal#2 (Scorecard)

23rd July 2023: FINAL (Scorecard)

Squads

Sri Lanka A: Dunith Wellalage (Captain), Lasith Croospulle, Avishka Fernando, Minod Bhanuka, Lahiru Udara, Janith Liyanage, Pasindu Sooriyabandara, Sahan Arachchige, Ashen Bandara, Dushan Hemantha, Promod Madushan, Chamika Karunaratne and Matheesha Pathirana

Nepal: Rohit Paudel (Captain), Kushal Bhurtel, Aasif Sheikh, Dev Khanal, Pawan Sarraf, Kushal Malla, Sundeep Jora, Gulshan Jha, Sompal Kami, Surya Tamang, Shyam Dhakal, Bhim Sharki, Pratish GC, Lalit Rajbanshi, Arjun Saud and Kishore Mahato

Oman A: Aqib Ilyas (Captain), Jatinder Singh, Kashyap Prajapati, Ayaan Khan, Shoaib Khan, Suraj Kumar, Jay Odedra, Kaleemullah, Fayyaz Butt, Samay Shrivastav, Wasim Ali, Rafiullah, Abdul Rauf, Shubo Pal, Muhammed Bilal Shah

India A: Yash Dhull (Captain), Sai Sudharsan, Abhishek Sharma, Nikin Jose, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Riyan Parag, Nishant Sindhu, Prabhsimran Singh, Dhruv Jurel, Manav Suthar, Yuvrajsinh Dodiya, Harshit Rana, Akash Singh, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Rajvardhan Hangargekar

Pakistan A: Mohammad Haris (Captain), Omair Yousuf, Amad Butt, Arshad Iqbal, Haseebullah, Kamran Ghulam, Mehran Mumtaz, Mubasir Khan, M Wasim Jnr, Qasim Akram, Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Shahnawaz Dahani, Sufiyan Muqeem and Tayyab Tahir

Bangladesh A: Mohammed Saif Hassan (Captain), Parvez Hossain Emon, Tanzid Hasan, Shahadat Hossain, Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Zakir Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Mahedi Hasan, Rakibul Hasan, Mrittunjoy Chowdhury Nipun, Tanzim Hasan, Ripon Mondol, Mohammad Musfik Hasan, Akbar Ali and Naim Sheikh

UAE A: Ali Naseer (Captain), Adithya Shetty, Aryansh Sharma, Ansh Tandon, Ashwanth Valthapa, Ethan D’ Souza, Fahad Nawaz, Jash Giyanani, Jonathan Figy, Lovepreet Singh, Matiullah, Mohammad Faraazuddin, Muhammad Jawadullah, Nilansh Keswani and Sanchit Sharma

Afghanistan A: Shahidullah Kamal (Captain), Ikram Alikhil, Ishaq Rahimi, Riaz Hassan, Ihsanullah Jannat, Noor Ali Zadran, Zubaid Akbari, Baheer Shah, Allah Noor Nasiri, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Izharulhaq Naveed, Wafadar Momand, Ibrahim Abdulrahimzai, Salim Safi, Zia Ur Rehman Akbar and Bilal Sami