Asian Cricket Council

ACC Executive Board Members [5]

Name	Nationality	Board	Post
Sourav Ganguly	India	Board of Control for cricket in India	President
K H Imran	Pakistan	Pakistan Cricket Board	Vice President
Amitabh Choudhary	India	Board of Control for Cricket in India	Executive Board Member
Ehsan Mani	Pakistan	Pakistan Cricket Board	Executive Board Member
Kamal Padmasiri	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka Cricket	Executive Board Member
Azizullah Fazli	Afghanistan	Afghanistan Cricket Board	Executive Board Member
Ravi Sehgal	Thailand	Cricket Association of Thailand	Executive Board Member
Pankaj Khimji	Oman	Oman Cricket	Executive Board Member
Mohamad Aflah	Maldives	Cricket Control Board of Maldives	Executive Board Member
Rahul Johri	India	Board of Control for Cricket in India	Ex Officio; CEO, BCCI
Subhan Ahmad	Pakistan	Pakistan Cricket Board	Ex-officio, COO, PCB
Ashley De Silva	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka Cricket	Ex Officio; CEO, SLC
Nizam Uddin Chowdhury	Bangladesh	Bangladesh Cricket Board	Ex Officio; CEO, BCB
Shafiq Stanikzai	Afghanistan	Afghanistan Cricket Board	Ex-officio, CEO, ACB

• Last Updated: 25 November 2018

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• Mahboob Shah –  Pakistan

ACC Asia Cup is an international men's One Day International cricket tournament. It was established in 1983 when the Asian Cricket Council was founded as a measure to promote goodwill between Asian countries. It was originally scheduled to be held every two years.

The ACC has announced that the tournament will be held biennially from 2008 onwards. The ICC has ruled that all games played in the Asia Cup have official ODI status.

After downsizing the Asian Cricket Council in 2015, it was announced by the ICC that Asia Cup events from 2016 will be played on a rotation basis between One Day International and Twenty20 International format, on the basis of format of upcoming world events.[8] As a result, the 2016 event was the first event played in the T20I format and functioned as a preparatory tournament ahead of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20.

The first ACC Asia Twenty20 was played in 2016. After downsizing the Asian Cricket Council in 2015, it was announced by the ICC that Asia Cup events from 2016 will be played on a rotation basis between One Day International and Twenty20 International format, on the basis of format of upcoming world events.[8] As a result, the 2016 event will be first event played in the T20I format and will function as a preparatory tournament ahead of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20.

ACC Asian Test Championship was a professional Test cricket tournament contested between the Test playing nations of Asia: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It was held in 1998–99 when Pakistan won, and in 2001–02 with Sri Lanka as champions. It was originally planned that the tournament would be held every two years, alternatively with the Asia Cup.

India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka competed in the inaugural Asian Test Championship between February and March 1999. Bangladesh could not compete because the ICC had not granted them Test status.

The venues of the round robin matches were rotated between the three countries, with the final to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh as a neutral venue. Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka by an innings and 175 runs in the final to become the first Asian Test Champions.

Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka competed in the second Asian Test Championship between August 2001 and March 2002. India pulled out of the tournament due to political tensions with Pakistan.The final was held at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan. Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by 8 wickets to win the second Asian Test championship.

ACC Women's Asia Cup is an international One Day International cricket tournament contested by women's cricket teams from Asia. It has been played seven times to date till 2008 it was held in ODI format and since 2012 the tournament is held in T20 format. India winning six tournament while Bangladesh won the trophy in 2018

ACC Fast Track Countries Tournament, later known as the ACC Premier League is a First-class cricket tournament run by the Asian Cricket Council that is contested between its members nations. It was played three times between 2004 and 2007, and was then replaced by the ACC Twenty20 Cup.

ACC Trophy or Asian Cricket Council Trophy is a one-day cricket tournament organised by the Asian Cricket Council for the non-test nations in Asia. The last edition was held in UAE in 2012 as ACC changed tournament structure to three division instead of two.

ACC Twenty20 Cup is a Twenty20 cricket tournament held in Asia. The first tournament was jointly won by Afghanistan and Oman.

ACC Premier League is a One Day cricket tournament run by the Asian Cricket Council that is contested between its members nations. It has evolved from the former ACC Trophy Elite cricket competition and involves three divisions; ACC Premier League, ACC Ellite League and ACC Challenge League. The first tournament was held in Malaysia in May 2014.

ACC Championship 2014 was supposed to be first tournament of ACC Championship going to be held in UAE on 7–14 December 2014. The top 4 teams from 2014 ACC Premier League will qualify for the Championship. But later it was cancelled.

The team sport of Cricket became a medal sport at the 2010 Asian Games. The last time cricket featured in a major multi-sport event was at the 1998 Commonwealth Games held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The gold medal was won on that occasion by South Africa who defeated Australia by 4 wickets in the final with New Zealand winning the bronze medal.

At a general meeting of the Olympic Council of Asia held in Kuwait on 17 April 2007, it was announced that cricket would be included as a medal sport in the 2010 Asian Games to be held in Guangzhou. Matches would be played on a Twenty20, 20-overs per side format.

Afro-Asia Cup was a cricket competition played for the first time in 2005 and which is intended to run for at least three years. The idea was to raise money for the Asian Cricket Council and the African Cricket Association and the whole venture was given a massive boost when the ICC somewhat controversially, agreed to give the series of one-day matches full ODI status.

The inaugural competition was a series of three one day matches played between an Asian XI and an African XI. Controversially, the games have been awarded official One Day International status. The teams were selected by former Test match players rather than by national selectors.