2000 ACC Trophy

2000 ACC Trophy Asian Cricket Council 50 overs per side Round robin and knockout United Arab Emirates UAE 1 8 15 Hong Kong Rahul Sharma Hong Kong Rahul Sharma (323) UAE Mohammad Tauqir (11) CricketArchive 1998 1998 ACC Trophy 2002 2002 ACC Trophy The 2000 ACC Trophy was a cricket tournament held from 15 to 24 November 2000 in the United Arab Emirates. 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 the host nation, who defeated Hong Kong in the final by three wickets. This was the United Arab Emirates' first title. Teams The following eight teams took part in the tournament: Hong Kong Kuwait Malaysia SingaporeJapan Maldives Nepal UAE Group stages The eight teams were divided into two groups of four, with the top two from each group qualifying for the semi-finals. Group A TeamPldWLNRNRRPtsHong Kong33001.4426Malaysia32100.0714KUW3120–0.9832SIN3030–0.5790 15 November 2000 Hong Kong 209 all out (49.3 overs) 192 all out (49.5 overs) Malaysia Stewart Brew 59 (96) Rohan Suppiah 3/32 (10 overs) Yazid Imran 55 (54) Sher Lama 3/27 (10 overs) Hong Kong won by 17 runs (scorecard) Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah Mohammad Nazir & Nasir Butt Stewart Brew (Hong Kong) 15 November 2000 SIN 257/6 (50 overs) 260/7 (49 overs) KUW Andrew Scott 103* (152) Z.N. Butt 2/30 (8 over) Mohammad Nawaz 94 (94) Rishi Kaul 3/38 (10 overs) KUW won by 3 wickets (scorecard) Dubai Cricket Council Ground No 1, Dubai Lalith Jayasundara & Satyajit Sarkar Mohammad Nawaz (Kuwait) 16 November 2000 Hong Kong 270/8 (50 overs) 217/6 (50 overs) SIN Rahul Sharma 95 (121) Rishi Kaul 3/48 (10 overs) Andrew Scott 58 (90) Alexander French 3/43 (10 overs) Hong Kong won by 53 runs (scorecard) Dubai Cricket Council Ground No 1, Dubai Shyam Bansal & Nasir Butt 16 November 2000 Malaysia 236/9 (50 overs) 231 all out (49.2 overs) KUW Suresh Navaratnam 56 (74) Z.N. Butt 3/36 (10 overs) Abdullah Iftikhar 66 (101) Marimuthu Muniandy 3/35 (7.2 overs) Malaysia won by 5 runs (scorecard) Dubai Cricket Council Ground No 1, Dubai Manzoor Ali Hassan & Satyajit Sarkar Suresh Navaratnam (Malaysia) 18 November 2000 KUW 128 all out (38.2 overs) 132/2 (21.2 overs) Hong Kong Mohammad Nawaz 55 (79) Jawaid Iqbal 3/30 (10 overs) Saleem Malik 58 (57) Z.N. Butt 2/32 (6 overs) Hong Kong won by 8 wickets (scorecard) Dubai Cricket Council Ground No 1, Dubai Shyam Bansal & Nasir Butt Jawaid Iqbal (Hong Kong) 18 November 2000 SIN 196/9 (50 overs) 200/7 (45.4 overs) Malaysia Andrew Scott 62 (103) Rohan Suppiah 3/27 (10 overs) Rohan Selvaratnam 84* (94) Kapila Mendis 3/42 (9 overs) Malaysia won by 3 wickets (scorecard) Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah Lalith Jayasundara & Satyajit Sarkar Rohan Selvaratnam (Malaysia) Group B TeamPldWLNRNRRPtsUAE33001.2856NEP32100.8864Maldives31200.4612Japan3030–3.6530 15 November 2000 NEP 179 all out (49.5 overs) 180/9 (49.3 overs) UAE Ganesh Thakuri 68 (89) Saeed-al-Saffar 5/41 (9.5 overs) Saeed-al-Saffar 89 (117) Jay Sarraf 2/20 (7 overs) UAE won by 1 wicket (scorecard) Dubai Cricket Council Ground No 1, Dubai Shyam Bansal & Sarika Prasad Saeed-al-Saffar (UAE) 16 November 2000 Japan 59 all out (26 overs) 60/2 (11.3 overs) Maldives Tetsuo Fuji 9 (27) Ahmed Amir 3/7 (3 overs) Ali Azim 20 (26) Jummei Hanada 1/10 (2 overs) Maldives won by 3 wickets (scorecard) Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah Lalith Jayasundara & Surjit Singh Imad Ismail (Maldives) 17 November 2000 Japan 133 all out (49.5 overs) 137/3 (20.3 overs) NEP Hirokazu Takahashi 28 (74) Binod Das 3/24 (9 overs) Kiran Agrawal 53* (63) Ken Wadano 1/17 (2 overs) NEP won by 7 wickets (scorecard) Dubai Cricket Council Ground No 2, Dubai Mohammad Nazir & Sarika Prasad Kiran Agrawal (Nepal) 17 November 2000 Maldives 116 all out (45 overs) 117/3 (31.1 overs) UAE Ismail Nadheem 34 (73) Ahmed Nadeem 3/14 (7 overs) Nasir Siddiqi 50* (68) Ismail Nihad 1/13 (5 overs) UAE won by 7 wickets (scorecard) Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah Manzur Rahman & Surjit Singh Ahmed Nadeem (UAE) 19 November 2000 Maldives 191/8 (50 overs) 192/5 (48.5 overs) NEP Ismail Nadheem 38 (27) Jay Sarraf 3/50 (9 overs) Kiran Agrawal 91 (130) Moosa Kaleem 2/37 (10 overs) NEP won by 5 wickets (scorecard) Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah Mohammad Nazir & Sarika Prasad Kiran Agrawal (Nepal) 19 November 2000 Japan 95 all out (35.1 overs) 98/4 (21 overs) UAE Hirokazu Takahashi 18 (47) Mohammad Tauqir 6/10 (10 overs) Babar Malik 30 (41) Ken Wadano 2/18 (5 overs) UAE won by 6 wickets (scorecard) Dubai Cricket Council Ground No 2, Dubai Manzur Rahman & Surjit Singh Mohammad Tauqir (UAE) Semi-finals 21 November 2000 Hong Kong 268/3 (50 overs) 89 all out (24 overs) NEP Rahul Sharma 145* (136) Mehboob Alam 1/18 (6 overs) Raju Khadka 18 (16) Stewart Brew 4/20 (5 overs) Hong Kong won by 179 runs (scorecard) Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah Lalith Jayasundara & Mohammad Nazir Rahul Sharma (Hong Kong) 22 November 2000 Malaysia 201 all out (49.1 overs) 204/4 (47.4 overs) UAE Shankar Retinam 59 (87) Miraj Khaliq 4/33 (10 overs) Kashif Tareen 69* (88) Suresh Navaratnam 1/34 (10 overs) UAE won by 6 wickets (scorecard) Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah Shyam Bansal & Mohammad Nazir Nasir Siddiqi (UAE) Final 24 November 2000 Hong Kong 186 all out (49.4 overs) 191/7 (44 overs) UAE Rahul Sharma 78 (129) Asim Saeed 4/32 (10 overs) Mahmood Pir Baksh 56 (89) Mohammad Zubair 4/30 (10 overs) UAE won by 3 wickets (scorecard) Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah Shyam Bansal & Lalith Jayasundara Mahmood Pir Baksh (UAE) Statistics Most runs2000 ACC Trophy batting records Most wickets2000 ACC Trophy bowling recordsHong Kong Rahul Sharma 323UAE Mohammad Tauqir 11 SIN Andrew Scott 223 Hong Kong Stewart Brew 10 KUW Mohammad Nawaz 185 UAE Asim Saeed 9 Hong Kong Stewart Brew 183 KUW Z.N. Butt 7 Hong Kong Saleem Malik 179 UAE Saeed-al-Saffar 7 References External links CricketArchive tournament page https://web.archive.org/web/20121021153538/http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Seasons/UAE/2000-01_UAE_Asian_Cricket_Council_Trophy_2000-01.html 2012-10-21 Category:ACC Trophy ACC Trophy Category:International cricket competitions in 2000–01 Category:International cricket competitions in the United Arab Emirates Category:Long stubs with short prose