1998 ACC Trophy

1998 ACC Trophy Asian Cricket Council 50 overs per side Round robin with knockouts Nepal BAN 2 10 teams 23/23 BAN Aminul Islam UAE Saeed-al-Saffar (236) BAN Aminul Islam (14) 1996 1996 ACC Trophy 2000 2000 ACC Trophy The 1998 ACC Trophy was a cricket tournament in Nepal, taking place from 3 October to 13 October 1998. It gave Associate and Affiliate members of the Asian Cricket Council experience of international one-day cricket and also helped form an essential part of regional rankings. The tournament was won by Bangladesh who defeated Malaysia in the final by 8 wickets. This would be Bangladesh's final ACC Trophy title prior to their elevation to Test status in 2000. Teams The teams were separated into two groups of five. The following teams took part in the tournament: Bangladesh Malaysia Maldives Papua New Guinea SingaporeHong Kong Japan 1870 Nepal Thailand UAE Group stages The top two from each group qualified for the semi-finals. Group A TeamPldWLANRNRRPtsBAN430012.6387Malaysia43100–0.2696SIN41201–0.8803Maldives41201–1.3962Papua New Guinea40301–0.9011source=Cricinfo 3 October 1998 BAN Papua New Guinea Match abandoned (scorecard) Tribhuvan University Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Cyril Cooray & Virinchirpuram Ramaswamy Points: Bangladesh 1; Papua New Guinea 1 3 October 1998 Maldives SIN Match abandoned (scorecard) St Xavier's School Ground, Kathmandu Cyril Cooray & Virinchirpuram Ramaswamy Points: Maldives 1; Singapore 1 4 October 1998 Malaysia 156 all out (43.4 overs) 69/4 (26 overs) Maldives Rohan Selvaratnam 37 (56) Hassan Ibrahim 3/19 (9 overs) Mohammad Aflah 25 (73) Ramesh Menon 3/10 (9 overs) Malaysia won on faster scoring rate (scorecard) St Xavier's School Ground, Kathmandu Ignatius Anandappa & Feroz Butt Hassan Ibrahim (Maldives) Match reduced to 45 overs 5 October 1998 BAN 239/9 (50 overs) 98 all out (31.5 overs) Malaysia Javed Omar 81 (142) Siswanto Haidi 3/54 (7 overs) Ramesh Menon 20 (32) Aminul Islam 4/15 (8.5 overs) BAN won by 141 runs (scorecard) Pulchok Engineering Campus Ground No 2, Lalitpur Shyam Bansal & Siddiq Khan Javed Omar (Bangladesh) 5 October 1998 Papua New Guinea 157 all out (36.4 overs) 158/5 (43.1 overs) SIN Aukuma Noka 58 (52) Rex Martens 3/41 (7.4 overs) Zubin Shroff 51 (82) John Ovia 2/19 (10 overs) SIN won by 5 wickets (scorecard) Pulchok Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Arani Jayaprakash & Riazuddin Zubin Shroff (Singapore) 7 October 1998 BAN 279/8 (47 overs) 158/8 (47 overs) SIN Faruk Ahmed 58 (74) Ravi Thambinayagam 3/22 (4 overs) Zubin Shroff 73* (132) Aminul Islam 3/23 (9 overs) BAN won by 121 runs (scorecard) Tribhuvan University Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Shyam Bansal & Virinchirpuram Ramaswamy Aminul Islam (Bangladesh) Match reduced to 47 overs 7 October 1998 Malaysia 170 all out (48.5 overs) 105 all out (27.4 overs) Papua New Guinea Kunjiraman Ramadas 54 (74) John Ovia 3/27 (10 overs) Keimelo Vuivagi 26 (25) Suresh Navaratnam 3/18 (5 overs) Malaysia won by 65 runs (scorecard) Pulchok Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Riazuddin & Udaya Wickremasinghe Kunjiraman Ramadas (Malaysia) 8 October 1998 BAN 206/9 (41 overs) 104 all out (29.3 overs) Maldives Javed Omar 47 (90) Ahmed Amir 4/20 (6 overs) Mohammad Aflah 26 (33) Hasibul Hossain 4/35 (5.3 overs) BAN won by 102 runs (scorecard) St Xavier's School Ground, Kathmandu Ignatius Anandappa & Feroz Butt Hasibul Hossain (Bangladesh) Match reduced to 41 overs 8 October 1998 SIN 129/9 (39 overs) 132/5 (34.2 overs) Malaysia Ravi Thambinayagam 29 (32) Marimuthu Muniandy 4/19 (8 overs) Ramesh Menon 56* (95) Aminul Islam 3/23 (9 overs) Malaysia won by 5 wickets (scorecard) Tribhuvan University Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Cyril Cooray & Virinchirpuram Ramaswamy Ramesh Menon (Malaysia) Match reduced to 39 overs 9 October 1998 Maldives Papua New Guinea Maldives won by a walk-over (scorecard) Pulchok Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Thammahetti Samarasinghe & Siddiq Khan Papua New Guinea left Nepal on October 8, as otherwise they would have had to wait for another week to catch the next flight available. Group B TeamPldWLANRNRRPtsHong Kong430014.8847UAE430014.0627THA41201–3.0443NEP40202–2.0302Japan 187040301–2.9931source=Cricinfo 3 October 1998 Hong Kong UAE Match abandoned (scorecard) Pulchowk Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Riazuddin & Udaya Wickremasinghe Points: Hong Kong 1; United Arab Emirates 1 3 October 1998 NEP Japan 1870 Match abandoned (scorecard) Pulchowk Engineering Campus Ground No 2, Lalitpur Ignatius Anandappa & Shyam Bansal Points: Nepal 1; Japan 1 4 October 1998 NEP THA Match abandoned (scorecard) Tribhuvan University Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Cyril Cooray & Siddiq Khan Points: Nepal 1; Thailand 1 5 October 1998 Japan 1870 18 all out (20.2 overs) 22/1 (2.3 overs) Hong Kong Takashi Kato 4* (18) Rahul Sharma 6/3 (5.2 overs) Sada Hussain 13* (9) Ken Wadano 1/18 (1.3 overs) Hong Kong won by 9 wickets (scorecard) Tribhuvan University Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Feroz Butt & Udaya Wickremasinghe Rahul Sharma (Hong Kong) 5 October 1998 UAE 364/4 (50 overs) 72 all out (32 overs) THA Saeed-al-Saffar 209* (136) Anil Tanwani 2/65 (9 overs) Anil Tanwani 16 (29) Saeed-al-Saffar 4/11 (4 overs) UAE won by 292 runs (scorecard) St Xavier's School Ground, Kathmandu Virinchirpuram Ramaswamy & Thammahetti Samarasinghe Saeed-al-Saffar (UAE) 7 October 1998 THA 125 all out (43 overs) 126/4 (13.3 overs) Hong Kong Chalee Kader 22 (47) Sada Hussain 3/20 (7 overs) Sada Hussain 53 (33) Chalee Kader 2/14 (3 overs) Hong Kong won by 6 wickets (scorecard) St Xavier's School Ground, Kathmandu Cyril Cooray & (Unknown) Sada Hussain (Hong Kong) 7 October 1998 UAE 273 all out (44.1 overs) 70 all out (29.1 overs) Japan 1870 Babar Malik 82 (54) Jummei Hanada 3/52 (7.1 overs) Jummei Hanada 24 (73) Shehzad Altaf 6/13 (10 overs) UAE won by 203 runs (scorecard) Pulchowk Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Arani Jayaprakash & Thammahetti Samarasinghe Shehzad Altaf (UAE) 8 October 1998 THA 130 all out (36 overs) 85 all out (34.3 overs) Japan 1870 Colin Devonshire 42 (60) Ken Wadano 3/27 (8 overs) Yoichi Sato 23 (43) Arvinder Singh 4/16 (10 overs) THA won by 45 runs (scorecard) Pulchowk Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Shyam Bansal & Siddiq Khan Colin Devonshire (Thailand) 8 October 1998 UAE 222 all out (49.4 overs) 128 all out (38.1 overs) NEP Nasir Siddiqi 61 (102) Dipendra Chaudhary 6/46 (8.4 overs) Rajesh Chaudhary 29 (43) Mohammad Tauqir 5/36 (10 overs) UAE won by 94 runs (scorecard) Pulchowk Engineering Campus Ground No 2, Lalitpur Arani Jayaprakash & Riazuddin Mohammad Tauqir (UAE) 9 October 1998 NEP 150 all out (38 overs) 154/4 (28.1 overs) Hong Kong Dipendra Chaudhary 35 (61) Mohammad Zubair 4/38 (10 overs) Rahul Sharma 41* (45) Rajesh Chaudhary 1/18 (3 overs) Hong Kong won by 6 wickets (scorecard) Pulchowk Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Feroz Butt & Udaya Wickremasinghe Rahul Sharma (Hong Kong) Semi-finals 10 October 1998 UAE 103 all out (46.3 overs) 106/4 (32 overs) BAN Mahmood Pir Baksh 29 (84) Aminul Islam 3/6 (3.3 overs) Aminul Islam 34 (53) Mohammad Tauqir 3/28 (8 overs) BAN won by 6 wickets (scorecard) Tribhuvan University Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Shyam Bansal & Cyril Cooray Mohammad Rafique (Bangladesh) 11 October 1998 Malaysia 174/9 (40 overs) 133 all out (36.4 overs) Hong Kong Suresh Singh 48 (88) Stewart Brew 4/38 (8 overs) Rahul Sharma 50 (79) Marimuthu Muniandy 4/11 (6 overs) Malaysia won by 41 runs (scorecard) Tribhuvan University Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Shyam Bansal & Riazuddin Marimuthu Muniandy (Malaysia) Match reduced to 40 overs Final 13 October 1998 Malaysia 83 all out (37.2 overs) 85/2 (21.2 overs) BAN Rohan Selvaratnam 25 (71) Aminul Islam 3/22 (8 overs) Shahriar Hossain 51 (72) Matthew William 1/5 (3 overs) BAN won by 8 wickets (scorecard) Tribhuvan University Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Cyril Cooray & Riazuddin Shahriar Hossain (Bangladesh) Statistics Most runs1998 ACC Trophy batting records Most wickets1998 ACC Trophy bowling recordsUAE Saeed-al-Saffar 236BAN Aminul Islam 14 BAN Javed Omar 185 Hong Kong Rahul Sharma 13 UAE Nasir Siddiqi 155 Malaysia Marimuthu Muniandy 13 BAN Shahriar Hossain 152 Malaysia Ramesh Menon 10 BAN Aminul Islam 150 UAE Mohammad Tauqir 9 References External links CricketArchive tournament page https://web.archive.org/web/20121021154026/http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Seasons/NEP/1998-99_NEP_Pepsi_Asian_Cricket_Council_Trophy_1998-99.html 2012-10-21 Category:1998 in Nepalese sport Category:International cricket competitions from 1997–98 to 2000 1998 Category:International cricket competitions in Nepal Category:Long stubs with short prose