ACC Premier League
The ACC Premier League is a One Day cricket tournament run by the Asian Cricket Council that is contested between its members nations in League system. It has evolved from the former ACC Trophy Elite cricket competition[1] and played under three divisions; Premier, Ellite and Challenge. It gives Associate and Affiliate members of the Asian Cricket Council experience of international one-day cricket and also helps form an essential part of regional rankings. The first tournament was held in Malaysia in May 2014.
Administrator | Asian Cricket Council |
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Format | 50 overs per side |
First edition | 2014 |
Tournament format | Round robin event |
Number of teams | 18 |
Current champion | Afghanistan |
Qualification | ACC Championship |
Most runs | Usman Ghani (228) |
Most wickets | Sompal Kami (15) |
However after first edition of Premier and Elite tournament, ACC reformed the tournament structure bifurcated into regional basis rather than Divisional basis.
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2014 ACC Premier League
The first tournament was held in Malaysia between 1–7 May 2014. Afghanistan won the tournament. The top four teams, Afghanistan, UAE, Nepal and Oman qualified for the 2014 ACC Championship.
Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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Afghanistan | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +1.062 |
United Arab Emirates | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +0.214 |
Nepal | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | -0.024 |
Oman | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | -0.082 |
Hong Kong | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | -0.132 |
Malaysia | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | -0.951 |
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2014 ACC Elite League
The first tournament of second division of ACC Premier League was held in Singapore between 7–13 June 2014.Singapore won the tournament and qualified for 2016 ACC Premier League and Saudi Arabia finishing second qualified for 2015 ICC World Cricket League Division Six.
Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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Singapore | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +3.243 |
Saudi Arabia | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +2.150 |
Kuwait | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +1.797 |
Maldives | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -1.534 |
Bahrain | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | -0.797 |
Bhutan | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4.679 |
2015 ACC Challenge League
The lowest division was supposed to be held in 2015. The participants in the tournament will be Brunei, China, Iran, Myanmar, Qatar and Thailand. But, this was cancelled.
From 2017, ACC started region based cricket calendar separated into Eastern and Western Regions rather than divisions, hence, this tournament will never happen again.