The ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 is scheduled to start on April 12 and run till April 21 in Oman.
Organised by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), the second edition of ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup will see as many as 10 teams compete in a total of 24 matches. The winner of ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 will qualify for Asia Cup 2025.
These participating teams have been divided into two groups of five teams each.
Group A comprises Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nepal, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The likes of Bahrain, Cambodia, Kuwait, Oman and United Arab Emirates are clubbed in Group B.
Each team will play the other four sides in their group once in a single round-robin format. The top two teams from each group will advance to the semi-finals.
The losers of the two semi-finals will clash in the third-place playoff on April 20.
The ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 final will be held on April 21.
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1) and Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2) are the two venues that will host all the matches in the upcoming T20 tournament.
The ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 will feature the eight highest ranked ACC associate members along with two finalists from ACC Men's Challenger Cup 2024.
Cambodia and Saudi Arabia have qualified for the tournament after finishing as the top two teams in the ACC Men's Challenger Cup 2024.
Nepal won the inaugural edition of the ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup after beating United Arab Emirates by seven wickets in the 2023 final.
Where to watch ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 live in India
Live streaming of the ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 will be available on the FanCode app and website.
There will be no live telecast of the upcoming men’s T20 tournament on any TV channel in India.
ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 schedule and India match start times
All timings are in India Standard Time (IST)
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Day and Date |
Match |
Venue |
Time (IST) |
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Friday, April 12 |
Oman vs Bahrain, Match 1, Group B |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat |
11:30 AM |
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Friday, April 12 |
United Arab Emirates vs Kuwait, Match 2, Group B |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat |
11:30 AM |
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Friday, April 12 |
Nepal vs Malaysia, Match 3, Group A |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat |
4:00 PM |
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Friday, April 12 |
Hong Kong vs Qatar, Match 4, Group A |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat |
4:00 PM |
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Saturday, April 13 |
Kuwait vs Cambodia, Match 5, Group B |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat |
11:30 AM |
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Saturday, April 13 |
United Arab Emirates vs Bahrain, Match 6, Group B |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat |
11:30 AM |
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Saturday, April 13 |
Malaysia vs Saudi Arabia, Match 8, Group A |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat |
4:00 PM |
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Saturday, April 13 |
Nepal vs Qatar, Match 7, Group A |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat |
4:00 PM |
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Sunday, April 14 |
Oman vs Cambodia, Match 9, Group B |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat |
11:30 AM |
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Sunday, April 14 |
Hong Kong vs Saudi Arabia, Match 10, Group A |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat |
4:00 PM |
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Monday, April 15 |
Nepal vs Hong Kong, Match 11, Group A |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat |
11:30 AM |
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Monday, April 15 |
Malaysia vs Qatar, Match 12, Group A |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat |
11:30 AM |
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Monday, April 15 |
United Arab Emirates vs Oman, Match 13, Group B |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat |
4:00 PM |
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Monday, April 15 |
Kuwait vs Bahrain, Match 14, Group B |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat |
4:00 PM |
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Tuesday, April 16 |
Qatar vs Saudi Arabia, Match 15, Group A |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat |
11:30 AM |
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Tuesday, April 16 |
Bahrain vs Cambodia, Match 16, Group B |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat |
4:00 PM |
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Wednesday, April 17 |
Hong Kong vs Malaysia, Match 17, Group A |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat |
11:30 AM |
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Wednesday, April 17 |
Nepal vs Saudi Arabia, Match 18, Group A |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat |
11:30 AM |
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Wednesday, April 17 |
United Arab Emirates vs Cambodia, Match 19, Group B |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat |
4:00 PM |
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Wednesday, April 17 |
Oman vs Kuwait, Match 20, Group B |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat |
4:00 PM |
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Friday, April 19 |
Semi-final 1 |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat |
11:30 AM |
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Friday, April 19 |
Semi-final 2 |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat |
4:00 PM |
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Saturday, April 20 |
Third-place Playoff |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat |
4:00 PM |
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Sunday, April 21 |
ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 final |
Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat |
4:00 PM |
ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 teams and squads
Bahrain: Haider Butt (captain), Sohail Ahmed, Junaid Niazi, Ahmer Bin Nasir, Imran Ali, Umer Toor (wicketkeeper), Ubaid Minhas, Imran Anwar, Sarfaraz Ali, Sathaiya Veerapathiran, Abdul Majid, Ali Dawood, Majid Malik, Muhammad Rizwan Butt
Cambodia: Luqman Butt (captain), Anish Rambabu, Etienne Beukes, Lakshit Gupta, Phon Bunthean, Salvin Stanly, Te Senglong, Uday Sing Hathinjar (wicketkeeper), Ram Raushan Sharan, Sharwan Godara, Kottagodage Don, Vimukthi Viraj, Pel Vannak, Chanthoeun Rathanak, Gulam Murtaza Chughtai, Utkarsh Jain
Hong Kong: Nizakhat Khan (captain), Adit Gorawara (wicketkeeper), Ashuman Rath, Babar Hayat, Martin Coetzee, Zeeshan Ali (wicketkeeper), Aizaz Khan, Nasrulla Rana, Yasim Murtaza, Ehsan Khan, Ateeq Iqbal, Ayush Shukla, Dhananjay Rao, Raunaq Kapur
Kuwait: Mohammed Aslam (captain), Ali Zaheer, Bilal Tahir, Clinto Anto, Muhammad Umar, Raveja, Meet Bhavsar (wicketkeeper), Usman Ghani (wicketkeeper), Parvinder Kumar, Adnan Idrees, Mohammad Aslam (captain), Nawaf Ahmed, Nimish Lathif, Shiraz Khan, Yasin Patel, Illyas Ahmed, Mohamed Shafeeq, Sayed Monib, Shahrukh Quddus
Malaysia: Ahmad Faiz, Ainool Hafizs, Muhammad Amir, Ahmad Zubaidi, Syed Aziz (wicketkeeper), Wan Muhammad (wicketkeeper), Ahmed Aqeel Wahid, Ahmed Aqeel, Nazmus Sakib, Virandeep Singh, Sharvin Muniandy, Mohammad Haziq Aiman, Muhammad Wafiq, Pavandeep Singh, Vijay Unni, Syazrul Idrus, Fitri Sham, Khizar Hayat Durrani, Rizwan Haider
Nepal: Rohit Paudel (captain), Aarif Sheikh, Kushal Bhurtel, Sundeep Jora, Aasif Sheikh (wicketkeeper), Anil Shah (wicketkeeper), Binod Bhandari (wicketkeeper), Bibek Yadav, Dipendra Singh Airee, Kushal Malla, Sompal Kami, Akash Chandra, Abhinash Bohara, Gulsan Jha, KC Karan, Lalit Rajbanshi, Pratish GC, Sagar Dhakal
Oman: Zeeshan Maqsood (captain), Ayan Khan, Kashyapkumar Prajapati, Khalid Kail, Naseem Khushi (wicketkeeper), Pratik Athavale (wicketkeeper), Aaqib Ilyas, Mehran Khan, Mohammad Nadeem, Rafiullah, Bilal Khan, Fayaz Butt, Kaleemullah, Shakeel Ahmad
Qatar: Muhammad Tanveer (captain), Kamran Khan, Mohammad Ahnaff, Rifayi Hassainar, Saqlain Arshad, Shahzaib Ahmed, Adnan Mirza, Amir Farooq, Mohammed Irshad, Gayan Buddika, Himanshu Rathod, Muhammad Jabir, Musawar Shah, Muhammad Ikramullah
Saudi Arabia: Hisham Shaikh (captain), Abdul Waheed, Faisal Khan, Kashif Abbas, Manan Ali (wicketkeeper), Saad Khan (wicketkeeper), Varun Mudaliar, Waji Ul Hassan, Ali Delawar Khan, Muhammad Ahmad Raza, Usman Khalid, Zain Ul Abidin, Atif-Ur-Rehman, Ishtiaq Ahmad, Saud Syed Ahmad, Usman Najeeb, Usman Ali
United Arab Emirates: Waseem Muhammad (captain), Alishan Sharafu, Asif Khan, Vishnu Sukumaran, Syed Haider, Tanish Suri (wicketkeeper), Aayan Khan, Ali Naseer, Balil Hameed, Farooq Momand, Akif Raja, Junayed Siddiqi, Omid Rahman, Rahul Bhatia
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