2010 ACC Trophy Elite

2010 ACC Trophy Elite

Administrator(s)	Asian Cricket Council
Cricket format	50 overs per side
Tournament format(s)	Round robin with playoffs
Host(s)	Kuwait
Champions	Afghanistan (1st title)
Participants	10 teams
Matches	21/21
Most runs	Saqib Ali (267)
Most wickets	Nadeem Ahmed (17)
Official website	Tournament home
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The 2010 ACC Trophy Elite was a cricket tournament in Kuwait, taking place between March 31 and April 9, 2010. It gives Associate and Affiliate members of the Asian Cricket Council experience of international one-day cricket and also helps forms an essential part of regional rankings. The tournament was won by Afghanistan, who defeated Nepal by 95 runs in the final on April 9.

Teams[]

After the 2006 ACC Trophy it was decided to split the tournament into two divisions. The placement of teams in the divisions was based on their final positions in the last ACC Trophy. The top ten teams went on to take part in the 2008 ACC Trophy Elite and the remaining teams were placed in a lower division, the 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge. Bottom two teams were relegated from 2008 ACC Trophy Elite and top two teams from 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge were promoted. The teams that made it into the Trophy Elite were:

Hong Kong  Kuwait    Nepal  Oman  Singapore

Afghanistan  Bahrain  Bhutan  Malaysia  United Arab Emirates

Squads[]

Afghanistan	Bahrain	Bhutan	Hong Kong	Kuwait
Nawroz Mangal (C) Asghar Afghan Dawlat Ahmadzai Hamid Hassan Karim Sadiq Mirwais Ashraf Mohammad Nabi Mohammad Shahzad (wk) Nasratullah Nasrat Noor Ali Raees Ahmadzai Samiullah Shenwari Shabir Noori Shapoor Zadran	Bahrain withdrew from the tournament after being unable to field a team due to visa problems.	(C) Tshering Dorji (wk) Sonam Tobgay Sanjog Chhetri	Najeeb Amar (C) Roy Lamsam Moner Ahmed Irfan Ahmed Nadeem Ahmed Waqas Barkat Hussain Butt Ilyas Gull Aizaz Khan Asif Khan Nizakat Khan (wk) Nasir Hameed (wk) Jawaid Iqbal	(C) Muhammad Javed (wk) Haroon Shahid

Malaysia	Nepal	Oman	Singapore	United Arab Emirates
Suhan Alagaratnam (C) Ahmed Faiz Rakesh Madhavan Suresh Navaratnam Anwar Arudin Eszrafiq Azis Shukri Rahim Shafiq Sharif (wk) Hassan Ghulam Shahrulnizam Yusof	Paras Khadka (C) Mehboob Alam Binod Bhandari Amrit Bhattarai Dipendra Chaudhary Mahesh Chhetri (wk) Binod Das Shakti Gauchan Gyanendra Malla Anil Mandal Basanta Regmi Sanjam Regmi Sharad Vesawkar Rahul Vishwakarma	Sultan Ahmed (C) (wk) Yousuf Mahmood Sufyan Mahmood Hemin Desai Adnan Ilyas (wk) Vaibhav Wategaonkar Zeeshan Siddiqui Awal Khan Aamer Ali Nileshkumar Parmar Tariq Hussain Aamir Khaleem	Munish Arora (C) Chetan Suryawanshi (wk) Mulewa Dharmichand Buddhika Mendis Saad Janjua	Khurram Khan (C) Naeemuddin Aslam Arshad Ali Saqib Ali Abdul Rehman (wk) Shadeep Silva Amjad Ali (wk) Salman Farooq Ahmed Raza Shoaib Sarwar Fayyaz Ahmed (wk)

Group stages[]

Group A[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Nepal	4	4	0	0	0	8	1.592
2	Hong Kong	4	3	1	0	0	6	−0.030
3	Oman	4	2	2	0	0	4	−0.049
4	Kuwait	4	1	3	0	0	2	−0.852
5	Singapore	4	0	4	0	0	0	−0.789

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Group B[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Afghanistan	4	3	1	0	0	6	2.600
2	Malaysia	4	3	1	0	0	6	2.512
3	United Arab Emirates	4	3	1	0	0	6	2.392
4	Bhutan	4	1	3	0	0	2	−8.498
5	Bahrain[a]	4	0	4	0	0	0	—

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Play-offs[]

9th place play-off[]

7th place play-off[]

5th place play-off[]

3rd place play-off[]

Semi-finals[]

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Final[]

Final Placings[]

Pos	Team	Relegation
1st	Afghanistan
2nd	Nepal
3rd	Hong Kong
4th	Malaysia
5th	United Arab Emirates
6th	Oman
7th	Kuwait
8th	Bhutan	Qualified for WCL82012
9th	Singapore	Relegated to ACC Trophy Challenge Division
10th	Bahrain

Statistics[]

Most runs[1]		Most wickets[2]
Saqib Ali	267	Nadeem Ahmed	17
Karim Sadiq	261	Hameed Hasan	16
Asghar Afghan	253	Munir Dar	11
Vaibbhav Wategaonkar	238	Suresh Navaratnam	10
Anil Mandal	236	Sharul Nizam	9

Controversy[]

The tournament was beset with players struggling to get visas to gain access to Kuwait. Bahrain were forced to withdraw from the tournament as they were unable to field a team after a large number of their players were refused visas.

Mohammad Nabi, the Afghanistan all-rounder was refused as visa, as was Hong Kong captain Najeeb Amar. Both were later able to gain entry to Kuwait and take part in the later stages of the tournament.

The Cricket Association of Nepal President has said his board intends to raise the issue at the next meeting of the Asian Cricket Council after Nepal vice-captain Gyanendra Malla had been refused entry to the country. In response to this, Pandey intends to ask the ACC not to host future tournaments in countries where obtaining a visa is difficult.^[3]

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