2024 ACC Men's Challenger Cup
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The 2024 ACC Men's Challenger Cup, the second edition of the ACC Men's Challenger Cup, was played in Thailand in January and February 2024.[1] All of the matches had Twenty20 International (T20I) status, and the tournament was a part of the qualification pathway for the 2025 Asia Cup.[2]
 Official logo for 2024 ACC Men's Challenger Cup | |
| Dates | 27 January – 11 February 2024 |
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| Administrator(s) | Asian Cricket Council |
| Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
| Tournament format(s) | Group stage and knockouts |
| Host(s) | Thailand |
| Champions | Saudi Arabia (2nd title) |
| Runners-up | Cambodia |
| Participants | 10 |
| Matches | 22 |
| Player of the series | Luqman Butt |
| Most runs | Luqman Butt (245) |
| Most wickets | Sharwan Godara (12) Utkarsh Jain (12) |
Cambodia and Saudi Arabia qualified for the Premier Cup by winning their respective semi-final matches.[3][4] Singapore beat Japan by 8 wickets in the third-place play-off.[5] Saudi Arabia beat Cambodia by 5 wickets in the final.[6] The victory meant that Saudi Arabia retained the trophy,[7] having won the 50-over format tournament in 2023.[8]
Squads
 Bhutan[9] |
 Cambodia |
 China |
 Indonesia |
 Japan[10] |
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 Maldives[11] |
 Myanmar |
 Saudi Arabia[12] |
 Singapore |
 Thailand |
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Qualifier stage
Points table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
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| 1 | Cambodia |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4.269 | Advanced to the group stage |
| 2 | Myanmar |
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −1.353 | Advanced to the 9th place play-off |
| 3 | China |
2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | −2.415 |
Source: ESPNcricinfo[13]
Fixtures
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Pyae Phyo Wai 16 (15) Utkarsh Jain 3/21 (4 overs) |
- Cambodia won the toss and elected to field.
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Etienne Beukes 33* (25) Zong Yuechao 2/19 (4 overs) |
Wei Guo Lei 14 (25) Sharwan Godara 4/5 (4 overs) |
- Cambodia won the toss and elected to bat.
- Huang Junjie (Chn) made his T20I debut.
Group stage
Group A
Points table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
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| 1 | Saudi Arabia |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4.282 | Advanced to the semi-finals |
| 2 | Cambodia |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | −1.140 | |
| 3 | Indonesia |
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1.264 | Advanced to the 5th place play-off |
| 4 | Bhutan |
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | −1.674 | Advanced to the 7th place play-off |
Source: ESPNcricinfo[13]
Fixtures
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Abdul Waheed 99 (58) Salvin Stanly 2/8 (1 over) |
Lakshit Gupta 24 (20) Imran Yousaf 3/16 (3.3 overs) |
- Cambodia won the toss and elected to field.
- Waji Ul Hassan (Sau) made his T20I debut.
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Anjar Tadarus 36 (29) Tenzin Wangchuk 3/22 (4 overs) |
Suprit Pradhan 28 (20) Maxi Koda 2/12 (4 overs) |
- Bhutan won the toss and elected to field.
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Ranjung Mikyo Dorji 22 (22) Usman Khalid 4/6 (2 overs) |
Haseeb Ghafoor 47* (40) Thinley Jamtsho 1/14 (2 overs) |
- Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to field.
- Zuhair Muhammad (Sau) made his T20I debut.
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Kirubasankar Ramamoorthy 54 (41) Gulam Murtaza 3/33 (4 overs) |
Luqman Butt 52 (48) Ferdinando Banunaek 2/20 (4 overs) |
- Indonesia won the toss and elected to bat.
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Faisal Khan 77 (60) Gede Arta 3/35 (4 overs) |
Kirubasankar Ramamoorthy 27 (19) Hisham Sheikh 3/16 (4 overs) |
- Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to bat.
- Shahzaib (Sau) made his T20I debut.
Group B
Points table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
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| 1 | Singapore |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1.015 | Advanced to the semi-finals |
| 2 | Japan |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.900 | |
| 3 | Thailand |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.810 | Advanced to the 5th place play-off |
| 4 | Maldives |
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | −3.054 | Advanced to the 7th place play-off |
Source: ESPNcricinfo[13]
Fixtures
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Surendran Chandramohan 82 (55) Ibrahim Hassan 2/42 (4 overs) |
Ismail Ali 33 (17) Ramesh Kalimuthu 3/19 (4 overs) |
- Singapore won the toss and elected to bat.
- Mohamed Ishmath (Mdv) and Sachin Banamali (Sin) both made their T20I debuts.
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Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming 74 (48) Chanchai Pengkumta 2/28 (4 overs) |
Chaloemwong Chatphaisan 31 (12) Reo Sakurano-Thomas 6/26 (3.5 overs) |
- Thailand won the toss and elected to field.
- Austin Lazarus, Mukesh Thakur (Tha) and Koji Abe (Jpn) all made their T20I debuts.
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Declan Suzuki-McComb 26 (22) Ibrahim Hassan 2/27 (4 overs) |
Umar Adam 40 (26) Makoto Taniyama 3/12 (2.4 overs) |
- Japan won the toss and elected to bat.
- Charles Hinze and Kazuma Kato-Stafford (Jpn) both made their T20I debuts.
Play-offs
9th place play-off
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Wei Guo Lei 70 (61) Myat Thu Aung 1/13 (3 overs) |
Paing Danu 19 (32) Ma Qiancheng 5/9 (4 overs) |
- Myanmar won the toss and elected to field.
- Ma Qiancheng became the first player for China to take a five-wicket haul in men's T20Is.[14]
5th place play-off
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Padmakar Surve 46 (44) Jandre Coetzee 3/9 (4 overs) |
Akshaykumar Yadav 49 (36) Gede Arta 1/19 (4 overs) |
- Thailand won the toss and elected to field.
7th place play-off
Knockout stage
| Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| A1 | Saudi Arabia
| 98/0 (9) | |||||||
| B2 | Japan
| 97/8 (20) | |||||||
| A1 | Saudi Arabia
| 151/5 (17.3) | |||||||
| A2 | Cambodia
| 147/5 (20) | |||||||
| A2 | Cambodia
| 113/4 (14.5) | |||||||
| B1 | Singapore
| 109 (20) | 3rd place play-off | ||||||
| B2 | Japan
| 215/3 (20) | |||||||
| B1 | Singapore
| 216/2 (19.2) | |||||||
Semi-finals
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Declan Suzuki-McComb 26 (21) Usman Najeeb 3/13 (4 overs) |
Faisal Khan 72* (33) |
- Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to field.
3rd place play-off
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Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming 78 (42) Harsha Bharadwaj 1/30 (3 overs) |
Aritra Dutta 122 (63) Sabaorish Ravichandran 1/22 (4 overs) |
- Singapore won the toss and elected to field.
- Aritra Dutta (Sin) scored his first century in men's T20Is.[15]
Final
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Hisham Sheikh 47* (41) Utkarsh Jain 2/34 (4 overs) |
- Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to field.
Final standings
References
External links
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