Cricket Nepal will host ACC Men’s Premier Cup 2023 in April/May

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) will be hosting the Ten (10)-nation Men’s Premier Cup (#ACCMensPremierCup) tournament from April 18th – May 02nd, 2023, with matches being played at Tribhuvan University ground and Mulpani ground. The tournament is part of the qualification pathway towards 2023 ACC Men’s Asia Cup, and will be played in the 50-overs format.

Group A of the tournament features teams from Oman, Nepal, Qatar, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, while Group B of the tournament features teams from United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Singapore and Bahrain. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain qualified from the ACC Men’s Challenger Cup tournament held in February 2023 in Thailand, as part of the qualification pathway program set by Asian Cricket Council (ACC). The winner of the tournament will qualify for the main event of Asia Cup later this year, while both the finalists and the 3rd placed team from the Premier Cup tournament will also qualify for the ACC Men’s Emerging Nations Asia Cup tournament later this year.

Squads

Hong Kong: Nizakat Khan (Captain), Adit Gorawara, Aizaz Khan, Ayush Shukla, Anshuman Rath, Babar Hayat, Ehsan Khan, Ghazanfar Mohammad, Haroon Arshad, Kinchit Shah, Nasrulla Rana, Shahid Wasif, Yasim Murtaza and Zeeshan Ali

Bahrain: Janaka Chaturanga, Mohamed Younis, David Mathias, Sohail Ahmed, Junaid Niazi, Haider Ali, Shabaz Badder, Ali Dawood, Zeeshan Abbas, Majid Abbasi, Rizwan Butt, Sathyaiah Veerapathiran, Imran Javed and George Axtel

Nepal: Rohit Paudel (Captain), Kushal Bhurtel, Aasif Sheikh, Gyanendra Malla, Kushal Malla, Arif Sheikh, Sompal Kami, Dipendra Singh Airee, Gulshan Jha, Karan KC, Sandeep Lamichhane, Bhim Sharki, Pratish JC and Lalit Rajbanshi

Malaysia: Ahmad Faiz (Captain), Virandeep Singh, Khizar Hayat, Syed Aziz Syed Mubarak, Sharvin Muniandy, Amir Azim, Fitri Sham, Vijay Unni, Anwar Rahman, Nazril Rahman, Wan Muhammad Azam, Wafiq Irfan, Syahadat Ramli and Rizwan Haider

Oman: Zeeshan Maqsood (captain), Aaqib Ilyas, Jay Odedera, Kaleemullah, Shoaib Khan, Kashyapkumar Prajapati, Adeel Shafique, Jatinder Singh, Mohammad Nadeem, Sandeep Goud, Bilal Khan, Ayaan Khan, Naseem Khushi and Fayyaz Butt

Singapore: Aritra Dutta (Captain), Avi Dixit, Amarthya Kaul, Surendran Chandramohan, Manpreet Singh, Aaryan Modi, Siddhanth Srikanth, Ramesh Kalimuthu, Omaidurain Thilipan, Akshay Puri, Vinoth Baskaran, Abdul Rahman, Rohan Rangarajan, Adwitya Bhargava, Prasheen Param and Vinit Chittesh Mehta

United Arab Emirates: Muhammad Waseem (Captain), Aayan Khan, Ansh Tandon, Aryan Lakra, Asif Khan, Basil Hameed, Junaid Siddique, Karthik Meiyappan, Matiullah, Rameez Shahzad, Rohan Mustafa, Sanchit Sharma, Vriitya Aravind and Zahoor Khan

Kuwait: Mohammed Aslam (Captain), Adnan Idrees, Sayed Monib, Usman Patel, Bilal Tahir, Muhammad Amin, Ravija Sandaruwan, Meet Bhavsar, Shiraz Khan, Parvinder Kumar, Yasin Ishak, Clinto Velookkaran Anto, Shahrukh Quddus and Ilyas Ammed

ACC Men’s Premier Cup Schedule

18th/19th April 2023: Nepal vs Malaysia (Scorecard) ; Hong Kong vs Singapore (Scorecard) ; United Arab Emirates vs Kuwait (Scorecard) ; Oman vs Qatar (Scorecard)

20th/21st April 2023: Singapore vs Bahrain (Scorecard) ; Malaysia vs Saudi Arabia (Scorecard) ; Nepal vs Oman (Scorecard) ; United Arab Emirates vs Hong Kong (Scorecard)

22nd/23rd April 2023: Qatar vs Saudi Arabia (Scorecard) ; Kuwait vs Bahrain (Scorecard) ; Singapore vs United Arab Emirates (Scorecard) ; Malaysia vs Oman (Scorecard)

24th/25th April 2023: Bahrain vs Hong Kong (Scorecard) ; Nepal vs Saudi Arabia (Scorecard) ; Kuwait vs Singapore (Scorecard) ; Qatar vs Malaysia (Scorecard)

26th/27th April 2023: Saudi Arabia vs Oman (Scorecard) ; United Arab Emirates vs Bahrain (Scorecard) ; Nepal vs Qatar (Scorecard) ; Hong Kong vs Kuwait (Scorecard)

29th April 2023: Semifinal#1 (Scorecard) ; Semifinal#2 (Scorecard)

30th April 2023: 3rd/4th Play-off (Scorecard)

01st May 2023: FINAL (Scorecard)