2017 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup

The 2017 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup was the second edition of the ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup held in Bangladesh. Eight teams participated in the tournament including four under-23 age level teams of Test nations and four top associate teams from Asia.This Competition was organized by ACC (Asian Cricket Council).^[3]

ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2017

Dates	27 March 2017 – 3 April 2017
Administrator(s)	Asian Cricket Council
Cricket format	List A
Tournament format(s)	Group and Knockout
Host(s)	Bangladesh
Champions	Sri Lanka U23 (1st title)
Runners-up	Pakistan U23
Participants	8
Player of the series	Charith Asalanka
Most runs	Charith Asalanka (338) [1]
Most wickets	Usama Mir (13) [2]
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Teams

Group A	Group B
India U23	Pakistan U23
Sri Lanka U23	Bangladesh U23
Afghanistan Emerging Team	Nepal
Malaysia	Hong Kong
Source:ACC

Squads

Afghanistan Emerging Team[4]	Bangladesh U23[5]	Hong Kong[6]	India U23[7]
Shafiqullah (c) Aftab Alam Fazal Niazai Gulbadin Naib Munir Ahmad (wk) Ihsanullah Janat Najibullah Zadran Naseeb Zadran Naveen-ul-Haq Nawaz Khan Samiullah Shinwari Shahidullah Sharafuddin Ashraf Usman Ghani Waheedullah Shafaq Younas Ahmadzai	Mominul Haque (c) Nasir Hossain Najmul Hossain Shanto Abul Hasan Abu Hider Afif Hossain Azmir Ahmed Mohammad Mithun (wk) Mohammad Saifuddin Nasum Ahmed Naeem Hasan Rahatul Ferdous Saif Hassan Salman Hossain Yasir Ali	Anshy Rath (c) Kyle Christie Christopher Carter (wk) Babar Hayat Ehsan Khan Ehsan Nawaz Cameron McAuslan Mohammad Awais Jhatavedh Subramanyan Nizakat Khan Wajid Shah Shahid Wasif Tanveer Ahmed Waqas Barkat Waqas Khan	Baba Aparajith (c) Ankush Bains (wk) Aswin Crist Rahul Chahar Shivam Chaudhary Mayank Dagar Abhimanyu Easwaran Aamir Gani Kamlesh Nagarkoti KV Sasikanth Kanishk Seth Prithvi Shaw Shubman Gill Hanuma Vihari Virat Singh
Malaysia[8]	Nepal[9]	Pakistan U23[10]	Sri Lanka U23[11]
Ahmad Faiz (c) Rashid Ahad Derek Duraisingam Fikri Makram Fayyaz Butt Muhammad Wafiq Muhammad Hafiz Norwira Zazmie Pavandeep Singh Aminuddin Ramly Shafiq Sharif Suharril Fetri Syed Aziz Virandeep Singh	Gyanendra Malla Aarif Sheikh Aasif Sheikh Dipendra Singh Airee Mahaboob Alam Binod Bhandari Sushan Bhari Sunil Dhamala Bhuvan Karki Avinash Karn Sandeep Lamichhane Dilip Nath Sagar Pun Dipesh Shrestha Sharad Vesawkar	Mohammad Rizwan (c, wk) Ahmed Bashir Amad Butt Bilal Asif Ghulam Mudassar Hammad Azam Haris Sohail Hussain Talat Imam-ul-Haq Imran Butt Jaahid Ali Khushdil Shah Sameen Gul Usama Mir Zafar Gohar	Angelo Perera (c) Amila Aponso Charith Asalanka Ron Chandraguptha Wanindu Hasaranga Asitha Fernando Avishka Fernando Anuk Fernando Leo Fransisco Shehan Jayasuriya Chamika Karunaratne Lahiru Samarakoon Sadeera Samarawickrama Duvindu Tillakaratne Kithuruwan Vithanage

Group stage

Group A

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Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	NRR	Pts
Sri Lanka U23	3	2	1	0	0	+1.367	4
Afghanistan Emerging Team	3	2	1	0	0	+0.956	4
India U23	3	2	1	0	0	+0.836	4
Malaysia	3	0	3	0	0	−3.201	0

27 March 2017 scorecard

India U23  288/9 (50 overs)	v	Sri Lanka U23 253 (48.2 overs)
Baba Aparajith 100 (91) Amila Aponso 2/41 (10 overs)		Charith Asalanka 68 (94) Aswin Crist 3/55 (9.2 overs)

India U23 won by 35 runs Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram Umpires: Sharfuddoula (Ban) and Riazuddin (Pak) Player of the match: Baba Aparajith (Ind U23)

• Sri Lanka Under-23 won the toss and elected to field.

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27 March 2017 scorecard

Afghanistan Emerging Team  284/7 (50 Overs)	v	Malaysia 129 (45.5 Overs)
Ihsanullah 108* (107) Derek Duraisingam 4/50 (9 overs)		Shafiq Sharif 36 (68) Aftab Alam 2/15 (6.5 overs)

Afghanistan Emerging Team won by 155 runs MA Aziz Stadium, Chattogram Umpires: Mahfuzur Rahman (Ban) and Anisur Rahman (Ban) Player of the match: Ihsanullah (Afg)

• Afghanistan Emerging Team won the toss and elected to bat.

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28 March 2017 scorecard

Sri Lanka U23  320/6 (50 Overs)	v	Afghanistan Emerging Team 285 (47.1 Overs)
Charith Asalanka 105 (96) Naveen-ul-Haq 2/66 (10 overs)		Najibullah Zadran 87 (50) Amila Aponso 3/40 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka U23 won by 35 runs Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram Umpires: Sharfuddoula (Ban) and Riazuddin (Pak) Player of the match: Charith Asalanka (SL U23)

• Sri Lanka Under-23 won the toss and elected to bat.
• Munir Ahmad (Afg) made his List A debut.

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28 March 2017 scorecard

Malaysia  163/9 (50 Overs)	v	India U23 167/3 (30.1 Overs)
Syed Aziz 53 (80) Aamir Gani 3/27 (10 overs)		Shubman Gill 51* (57) Abdul Mohammad Shukri 2/42 (10 overs)

India U23 won by 7 wickets MA Aziz Stadium, Chattogram Umpires: Morshed Ali Khan (Ban) and Anisur Rahman (Ban) Player of the match: Aamir Gani (Ind U23)

• India Under-23 won the toss and elected to field.

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30 March 2017 scorecard

India U23  242/8 (50 overs)	v	Afghanistan Emerging Team 246/8 (46.3 overs)
Hanuma Vihari 59* (60) Naveen-ul-Haq 4/54 (10 overs)		Younas Ahmadzai 51 (54) Kamlesh Nagarkoti 2/29 (8 overs)

Afghanistan Emerging Team won by 2 wickets Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram Umpires: Riazuddin (Pak) and Anisur Rahman (Ban) Player of the match: Naveen-ul-Haq (Afg)

• India Under-23 won the toss and elected to bat.

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30 March 2017 scorecard

Sri Lanka U23  311/9 (50 overs)	v	Malaysia 106 (27.3 overs)
Sadeera Samarawickrama 121 (123) Derek Duraisingam 3/52 (10 overs)		Aminuddin Ramly 29* (38) Amila Aponso 5/31 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka U23 won by 205 runs MA Aziz Stadium, Chattogram Umpires: Sharfuddoula (Ban) and Moniruzzaman (Ban) Player of the match: Sadeera Samarawickrama (SL U23)

• Sri Lanka Under-23 won the toss and elected to bat.

Group B

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Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	NRR	Pts
Pakistan U23	3	2	0	1	0	+1.838	5
Bangladesh U23	3	2	0	1	0	+1.756	5
Nepal	3	1	2	0	0	−0.528	2
Hong Kong	3	0	3	0	0	−3.304	0

27 March 2017 sscorecard

Hong Kong  125 (35.1 Overs)	v	Bangladesh U23 126/2 (16.1 Overs)
Babar Hayat 37 (74) Nasir Hossain 3/18 (10 overs)		Saif Hassan 57 (47) Ehsan Khan 2/48 (6 overs)

Bangladesh U23 won by 8 wickets Sheikh Kamal International Cricket Stadium, Cox's Bazar Umpires: Hemantha Boteju (SL) and Nitin Menon (Ind) Player of the match: Saif Hassan (Ban U23)

• Hong Kong won the toss and elected to bat.

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27 March 2017 scorecard

Nepal    180/9 (50 Overs)	v	Pakistan U23 183/4 (45.1 Overs)
Sunil Dhamala 43 (125) Ghulam Mudassar 5/26 (10 overs)		Imam-ul-Haq 105* (136) Gyanendra Malla 2/44 (10 overs)

Pakistan U23 won by 6 wickets Sheikh Kamal International Cricket Stadium Academy Ground, Cox's Bazar Umpires: Masudur Rahman (Ban) and Gazi Sohel (Ban) Player of the match: Ghulam Mudassar (Pak U23)

• Pakistan Under-23 won the toss and elected to field.

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28 March 2017 scorecard

Pakistan U23  327/9 (50 Overs)	v	Hong Kong 79 (31.2 Overs)
Imam-ul-Haq 120 (124) Ehsan Nawaz 2/68 (10 overs)		Anshuman Rath 27 (43) Usama Mir 7/14 (8.2 overs)

Pakistan U23 won by 248 runs Sheikh Kamal International Cricket Stadium, Cox's Bazar Umpires: Masudur Rahman (Ban) and Tanvir Ahmed (Ban) Player of the match: Usama Mir (Pak U23)

• Pakistan Under-23 won the toss and elected to bat.

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28 March 2017 scorecard

Bangladesh U23  257/9 (50 Overs)	v	Nepal 174 (42.3 Overs)
Nasir Hossain 109* (115) Avinash Karn 3/46 (8 overs)		Dipendra Singh Airee 56 (85) Rahatul Ferdous 4/45 (7 overs)

Bangladesh U23 won by 83 runs Sheikh Kamal International Cricket Stadium Academy Ground, Cox's Bazar Umpires: Hemantha Boteju (SL) and Nitin Menon (Ind) Player of the match: Nasir Hossain (Ban U23)

• Nepal won the toss and elected to field.

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30 March 2017 scorecard

Pakistan U23  233/8 (50 overs)	v	Bangladesh U23 233/8 (50 overs)
Haris Sohail 63 (107) Mohammad Saifuddin 3/54 (10 overs)		Mominul Haque 75 (91) Zafar Gohar 2/40 (10 overs)

Match Tied Sheikh Kamal International Cricket Stadium, Cox's Bazar Umpires: Hemantha Boteju (SL) and Nitin Menon (Ind) Player of the match: Hussain Talat (Pak U23)

• (Pakistan Under-23 won the toss and elected to bat.
• Azmir Ahmed, Afif Hossain and Nayeem Hasan (Ban) all made their List A debut.

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30 March 2017 scorecard

Hong Kong  214 (50 overs)	v	Nepal 220/3 (44.2 overs)
Anshuman Rath 51 (60) Avinash Karn 3/29 (5 overs)		Gyanendra Malla 70 (82) Jhatavedh Subramanyan 2/31 (10 overs)

Nepal won by 7 wickets Sheikh Kamal International Cricket Stadium Academy Ground, Cox's Bazar Umpires: Masudur Rahman (Ban) and Akteruzzaman (Ban) Player of the match: Gyanendra Malla (Nep)

• Nepal won the toss and elected to field.

Knockout stage

Semi-final 1

1 April 2017 scorecard

Bangladesh U23  179 (49.3 overs)	v	Sri Lanka U23 180/2(38.5 overs)
Nasir Hossain 39 (59) Asitha Fernando 4/32 (10 overs)		Sadeera Samarawickrama 88* (100) Nayeem Hasan 1/28 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka U23 won by 8 wickets Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram Umpires: Nitin Menon (Ind) and Riazuddin (Pak) Player of the match: Asitha Fernando (SL U23)

• Bangladesh Under-23 won the toss and elected to bat.

Semi-final 2

1 April 2017 scorecard

Pakistan U23  267/5 (50 overs)	v	Afghanistan Emerging Team 144 (31.4 overs)
Mohammad Rizwan 105* (99) Gulbadin Naib 3/51 (10 overs)		Najibullah Zadran 31 (25) Bilal Asif 5/40 (8.4 overs)

Pakistan U23 won by 123 runs MA Aziz Stadium, Chattogram Umpires: Anisur Rahman (Ban) and Sharfuddoula (Ban) Player of the match: Mohammad Rizwan (Pak U23)

• Afghanistan Emerging Team won the toss and elected to field.

Final

3 April 2017 scorecard

Pakistan U23  133 (42.1 overs)	v	Sri Lanka U23 134/5 (23.5 overs)
Usama Mir 26 (43) Shehan Jayasuriya 3/22 (6 overs)		Sadeera Samarawickrama 45 (42) Sameen Gul 2/33 (7 overs)

Sri Lanka U23 won by 5 wickets Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram Umpires: Nitin Menon (Ind) and Sharfuddoula (Ban) Player of the match: Shehan Jayasuriya (SL U23)

• Pakistan Under-23 won the toss and elected to bat.

See also

• 2013 ACC Emerging Teams Cup

References

1. "Emerging Asia Cup/ Records/ Most Runs". cricinfo.
2. "Emerging Asia Cup/ Records/ Most Wickets". cricinfo.
3. "Fixtures, Schedule | ACC Emerging Teams Cup | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
4. "Afghanistan Squad Announced for ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup". Afghanistan Cricket Board. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
5. "Media Release : ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2017: Bangladesh emerging squad announced". Bangladesh Cricket Board. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
6. "Media Release : ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2017: Hong Kong emerging squad announced". Hong Kong Cricket. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
7. "Indian Squad for U23 Asia Cup 2017". ESPNCricinfo.
8. "Malaysia Under-23s Squad". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
9. "Npal U23 squad 2017". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
10. "Pakistan squad announced for Emerging Asia Cup 2017". Pakistan Cricket Board. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
11. "Sri Lanka Squad for the ACC Emerging Teams Cup 2017". Sri Lanka Cricket. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
12. "Points Table | ACC Emerging Teams Cup | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 April 2017.

External links

Series at home ESPN Cricinfo