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The ACC Trophy was a limited-overs cricket tournament organised by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC). Open only to associate and affiliate members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), it was contested biennially between 1996 and 2012, but was replaced by the three-division ACC Premier League in 2014 as the primary limited-overs competition for non-Test-playing ACC members. The tournament was discontinued for 9 years, and reinvented as ACC Premier Cup in 2023. The finalists of the 2000 and 2006 tournaments qualified for the Asia Cup, where matches had One Day International (ODI) status.

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The inaugural edition of the tournament was played in Malaysia in 1996, and featured 12 teams in a single division. The single-division format continued until the 2006 tournament, which featured a record 17 teams. The ACC Trophy was then split into "Elite" (first-grade) and "Challenge" (second-grade) divisions, with the first editions held under this format being the 2008 ACC Trophy Elite and the 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge (the latter tournament was the only one to be held in an odd year). The two-division format continued until the final tournament in 2012, with promotion and relegation between divisions.

Only six teams – Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Maldives, Nepal, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates – competed in all nine editions of the ACC Trophy, although the Maldives and Singapore were relegated to the "Challenge" tournament at various stages after the introduction of two divisions. The UAE was by far the most successful ACC Trophy team, with five wins (and four consecutive victories from 2000 to 2006). Bangladesh won the first two tournaments, but were rendered ineligible after gaining Test status.

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Previous finals

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ACC Trophy records

Team records

  • Highest total:  United Arab Emirates 510/6 (50 overs) v  Bhutan, 2010
  • Lowest total:  Myanmar 10 all out (12.1 overs) v    Nepal, 2006
  • Most wins: UAE 5, Nepal 2, Bangladesh 2, Hong Kong 1, Afghanistan 1

Individual records

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Best Partnerships

Note: Records are incomplete.

  1. Sarfraz Ahmed & Fahad Suleiman for  Saudi Arabia v  Brunei 201*
  2. Rahul Sharma & Khalid Butt for  Hong Kong v  Singapore 181
  3. Muhammad Jahangir & Irfan Ahmed for  Qatar v  Thailand 174
  4. Nowroz Khan & Karim Sadiq for  Afghanistan v  Malaysia 171
  5. Chaminda Ruwan & Munish Arora for  Singapore v  Bahrain 170
  6. Omer Taj & Muhammad Jahangir for  Qatar v  Iran 174
  7. Muhammed Iqbal & Arshad Ali for  United Arab Emirates v  Brunei 166
  8. Rahul Sharma & Khalid Butt for  Hong Kong v  Myanmar 161
  9. Nadeem Babar & Hammad Saeed for * Saudi Arabia v  Brunei 158
  10. Arshad Ali & Saqib Ali for  United Arab Emirates v  Brunei 152

Participating teams

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  • 1st – Champions
  • 2nd – Runners-up
  • 3rd – Third place
  • SF – Semi-finalist
  • GS – Group stage
  • Q – Qualified
  •     — Hosts
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  • Note: the above table includes results in all top-flight ACC tournaments – the ACC Trophy from 1996 to 2006, and the ACC Trophy Elite from 2008 to 2012,
  • Teams in italics no longer compete in ACC Trophy/ACC Trophy Elite matches, either through having gained Test status ( Bangladesh and  Afghanistan), or through having moved to the ICC East Asia-Pacific region ( Fiji,  Japan, and  Papua New Guinea).
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Champions and runners-up

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Notes: Bangladesh gained full Test status in 2000 and are no longer eligible to participate in the ACC Trophy.

See also

References

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