The 2008 ACC Trophy Elite was a cricket tournament in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, taking place between 25 July and 3 August 2008. It gives Associate and Affiliate members of the Asian Cricket Council experience of international one-day cricket and also forms part of the regional qualifications for the ICC World Cricket League
| Administrator(s) | Asian Cricket Council |
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| Cricket format | 50 overs per side |
| Tournament format(s) | round robin with playoffs |
| Host(s) |  Malaysia |
| Champions |  Hong Kong (1st title) |
| Participants | 10 teams |
| Matches | 27 |
| Player of the series |  Arshad Ali |
| Most runs |  Omer Taj |
| Most wickets | Dinesh Sockalingham |
| Official website | Asiancricket.org |
Teams edit
After the 2006 ACC Trophy it was decided to split the tournament into two divisions. The placement of teams in the divisions was based on their final positions in the last ACC Trophy. The top ten teams went on to take part in the 2008 ACC Trophy Elite and the remaining teams were placed in a lower division, the 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge. The teams that made it into the Trophy Elite were:
Squads edit
Match Officials edit
- Tanvir Ahmed (Bangladesh)
- D Ekanayake (Sri Lanka)
- SS Hazare (India)
- Aminul Islam (Bangladesh)
- RR Jadeja (India)
- GF Labrooy (Sri Lanka)
- Khalid Mahmood (Pakistan)
- SJ Phadkar (India)
- BB Pradhan (Nepal)
- SS Prasad (Singapore)
- Anisur Rahman (Bangladesh)
- Samiur Rahman (Bangladesh)
- RJ Ratnayake (Sri Lanka)
- Aziz-ur-Rehman (Pakistan)
- Abdus Sami (Pakistan)
- SH Sarathkumara (Sri Lanka)
- Anis Siddiqi (Pakistan)
- Iqbal Sikander (Pakistan)
Group stage edit
Group A edit
Points Tables edit
Green denotes teams going into the semifinals.
| Team | Pld | W | T | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
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 Afghanistan |
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | +0.96 |
| United Arab Emirates |
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | +0.70 |
| Malaysia |
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | +0.51 |
 Bahrain |
4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | +0.27 |
 Saudi Arabia |
4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | -2.54 |
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Fixtures and results edit
25 July 2008
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Eszrafiq Azis 63 (42)
Halal Abbasi 2/36 (10 overs) |
Imran Sajjad 73 (53)
DM Sockalingham 4/35 (9 overs) |
25 July 2008
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Khalid Butt 110 (96)
Khurram Khan 3/31 (9 overs) |
Saqib Ali 48 (42)
Shafiq Ahmed 5/45 (9 overs) |
26 July 2008
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Azeem-ul-Haq 79 (80)
Abid Naseem 2/31 (5 overs) |
Suhrab Kilsingatakam 52 (93)
Fahad Sadeq 3/34 (10 overs) |
27 July 2008
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Karim Khan 81 (73)
Dinesh Sockalingham 4/49 (10 overs) |
M Krishnamurthi 34 (62)
Nowroz Mangal 5/24 (5.3 overs) |
29 July 2008
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Abid Naseem 67 (100)
Mohammad Nabi 5/30 (8.2 overs) |
Noor Ali 70* (49)
Ijaz Sagheer 1/27 (5 overs) |
30 July 2008
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Asghar Stanikzai 102 (110)
Halal Abbasi 2/25 (7 overs) |
Ashraf Mughal 81 (81)
Dawlat Ahmadzi 3/39 (8 overs) |
30 July 2008
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Rakesh Madhavan 101 (137)
Sarfaz Ahmed 2/33 (10 overs) |
Sarfaz Ahmed 44 (73)
P Wickramasinghe 3/8 (5.2 overs) |
Group B edit
Points Tables edit
Green denotes teams going into the semifinals.
| Team | Pld | W | T | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
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 Nepal |
4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +1.15 |
| Hong Kong |
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | +1.48 |
 Singapore |
4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | -0.62 |
 Kuwait |
4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | -0.91 |
| Qatar |
4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | -1.26 |
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Fixtures and results edit
25 July 2008
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Chetan Suryawanshi 49 (38)
Abbas Khan 2/19 (10 overs) |
Tamoor Sajjad 58 (97)
Chaminda Ruwan 5/46 (10 overs) |
29 July 2008
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Mohammad Jahangir (86)
Sibtain Raza 5/55 (9.3 overs) |
Jagath Roshantha (55)
Sardar Badshah 3/45 (10 overs) |
30 July 2008
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Skhawat Ali 83 (119)
Mohammad Ali 5/45 (9 overs) |
Glenn Meyer 35 (31)
Najeeb Amar 3/34 (8.2 overs) |
Semifinals edit
Playoffs edit
1 August 2008
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Glenn Meyer (75)
Dinesh Sockalingham 3/44 (10 overs) |
Suhan Alagaratnam (107)
B Narender Reddy 3/27 (4.2 overs) |
- 5th Place Playoff
2 August 2008
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Suhrab Kilsingatakam 65 (129)
Abbas Khan 5/20 (10 overs) |
- 9th Place Playoff
2 August 2008
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Tahir Dar 85* (51)
Mohammad Murad 2/31 (6 overs) |
Mohammad Ahsan 66 (75)
Halal Abbasi 4/55 (10 overs) |
- 7th Place Playoff
2 August 2008
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Kanishka Chaugai 43 (63)
Aimal Wafa 2/35 (10 overs) |
Mohammad Nabi 55 (56)
Paras Khadka 3/34 (9 overs) |
- 3rd Place Playoff
Final edit
3 August 2008
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- Final.
- Match shortened due to rain; Duckworth-Lewis revised target to win: 203 runs in 36 overs for Hong Kong.
Final Placings edit
| Pos | Team |
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| 1st | Hong Kong
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| 2nd | United Arab Emirates
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| 3rd | Afghanistan
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| 4th | Nepal
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| 5th | Singapore
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| 6th | Malaysia
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| 7th | Bahrain
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| 8th | Kuwait
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| 9th | Qatar
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| 10th | Saudi Arabia
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Statistics edit
| Most Runs | Most Wickets | ||
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| Omer Taj |
294 | Dinesh Sockalingham |
18 |
| Suhan Alagaratnam |
278 | Abbas Khan |
12 |
| Arshad Ali |
268 | Najeeb Amar |
12 |
| Paras Khadka |
209 | Halal Abbasi |
11 |
| Najeeb Amar |
195 | Irfan Ahmed |
11 |
References edit
- ^ "Asian Cricket Council Trophy Elite 2008 Points Table | Asian Cricket Council Trophy Elite Ranking". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
- ^ "Asian Cricket Council Trophy Elite 2008 Points Table | Asian Cricket Council Trophy Elite Ranking". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
- ^ 2008 ACC Trophy Elite Records at cricinfo.com