1996 ACC Trophy
Cricket format 50 overs per side
Tournament format Round robin with knockouts
Host Malaysia
Champions Bangladesh (1st title)Participants 12 teams
Matches 33
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The 1996 ACC Trophy was a cricket tournament in Malaysia , which took place from 6 to 16 September 1996. 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 the UAE in the final by 108 runs.
Teams The teams were separated into two groups of six. The following teams took part in the tournament:
Group stages The top two from each group qualified for the semi-finals.
Group A Team Pld W L NR NRR Pts Bangladesh 5 5 0 0 2.447 10 Fiji 5 4 1 0 2.372 8 Hong Kong 5 3 2 0 1.747 6 Nepal 5 2 3 0 -0.414 4 Brunei 5 1 4 0 -1.640 2 Japan 5 0 5 0 -5.099 0
Bangladesh v Nepal Harunur Rashid 52 Raju Khadka 2/42 (? overs)V. Karmacharya 24 Saiful Islam 2/12 (? overs)
Bangladesh won on faster scoring rateKuala Lumpur
When play was halted at 39.2 over, Nepal needed to have scored 168 runs to win. Scorecard not complete. Brunei v Japan Stuart Alpe 58 Tomohiro Amino 3/28 (10 overs) Hirokazu Takahashi 34 Manzur Ahmed 3/7 (5 overs)
Fiji v Hong Kong Jone Sorovakatini 56 Stewart Brew 5/48 (? overs) Stewart Brew 47 Lesi Sorovakatini 3/25 (? overs)
Fiji won by 19 runsTenaga National Sports Complex , Kuala Lumpur Player of the match: Stewart Brew (Hong Kong)
Fiji v Bangladesh Taione Batina 39 Salahuddin Ahmed 3/20 (10 overs) Aminul Islam 44* Jone Sorovakatini 1/23 (? overs)
Japan v Nepal H. Minami 17 L.B. Chhetri 3/8 (6 overs) Manish Raj Pandey 27 A. Funayama 1/16 (3 overs)
Nepal won by 8 wicketsKuala Lumpur Player of the match: Manish Raj Pandey (Nepal)
Brunei v Bangladesh Sanjiv Sabharwal 22 Saiful Islam 4/21 (10 overs) Harunur Rashid 66* Ian Campbell 1/3 (? overs)
Bangladesh won by 9 wicketsKuala Lumpur
Fiji v Nepal Lesi Sorovakatini 70 Mosharraf 3/35 (? overs) Pawan Agrawal 33 Lesi Sorovakatini 2/21 (? overs)
Japan v Hong Kong Tetsuo Fuji 15 Stewart Brew 4/22 (10 overs) Stewart Brew 50* A. Funayama 2/65 (6.4 overs)
Bangladesh v Japan Shahriar Hossain 104 Tetsuo Fuji 2/34 (3 overs)Hirokazu Takahashi 25 (29) Akram Khan 6/5 (6 overs)
Bangladesh innings reduced to 42 overs, Japan target was 242 runs in 37 overs Hong Kong v Brunei Rahul Sharma 139R. Somasundram 37* Rahul Sharma 3/11 (? overs)
Bangladesh v Hong Kong Shahriar Hossain 67 Stewart Brew 3/56 (9 overs)Pat Fordham 27 Salahuddin Ahmed 3/29 (10 overs)
Nepal v Brunei Pawan Agrawal 80 Ian Campbell 3/35 (? overs) Stuart Alpe 26 Musharaf Izhar 3/8 (? overs)
Nepal won by 64 runsKelab Aman , Kuala Lumpur Player of the match: Pawan Agrawal (Nepal)
Fiji v Japan Joji Bulabalavu 150 Nobuyasa Yoshioka 2/67 (5 overs) Kenichi Katohi 21 Seci Sekinini 3/11 (7 overs)
Fiji won by 380 runsRoyal Military College , Sungai Besi Player of the match: Joji Bulabalavu (Fiji)
Brunei v Fiji Brett MacRae 40 Seci Sekinini 3/35 (? overs) Joeli Mateyawa 67* R. Somasundram 2/30 (? overs)
Nepal v Hong Kong Musharaf Izhar 47 Ravi Sujanani 4/30 (? overs) Mark Eames 43
Group B Team Pld W L NR NRR Pts United Arab Emirates 5 5 0 0 1.769 10 Papua New Guinea 5 4 1 0 1.426 8 Malaysia 5 3 2 0 0.859 6 Singapore 5 2 3 0 -1.153 4 Maldives 5 1 4 0 -0.059 2 Thailand 5 0 5 0 -3.549 0
Papua New Guinea v Malaysia Vai Kevau 46 Tan Kim Hing 2/28 (? overs) Dinesh Ramadas 12 Rarua Ipi 5/16 (? overs)
Papua New Guinea won by 126 runsPerbadanan Kemajuan Negari Selangor , Kuala Lumpur Player of the match: Rarua Ipi (Papua New Guinea)
Thailand v United Arab Emirates Saleem Raza 4/13 (? overs)
Papua New Guinea v Maldives Aukuma Noka 56 Imad Ismail 3/34 (? overs) Ahmed Kaleem 26 Vavine Pala 3/18 (? overs)
Thailand v Singapore Varin Khaniyo 40 Anthon Ranggi 3/18 (? overs) Thaiyar Mohamed 76*
Singapore won by 8 wicketsKuala Lumpur
Maldives v Singapore Faiz Sammad 45 Anthon Ranggi 4/42 (? overs) T. Ravichandran 65 Imad Ismail 2/43 (? overs)
Papua New Guinea v United Arab Emirates Vavine Pala 65 Arshad Laeeq 4/32 (? overs) Arshad Laeeq 57 Tuku Raka 3/40 (? overs)
Thailand v Malaysia Shujaul Ansari 10 Marimuthu Muniandy 4/8 (8 overs) Suresh Navaratnam 23*
Maldives v United Arab Emirates Abdullah Shafeeu 48 Mohammad Hyder 5/34 (? overs) Azhar Saeed 100*
United Arab Emirates won by 8 wicketsKuala Lumpur
Papua New Guinea v Singapore Vai Kevau 55 H. Rasheed 2/11 (? overs) Kiran Deshpande 20 Rarua Ipi 4/15 (? overs)
Papua New Guinea won on faster scoring rateTenaga National Sports Complex , Kuala Lumpur Player of the match: Ipi Morea (Papua New Guinea)
Papua New Guinea innings reduced to 40.1 overs, Singapore target was 129 runs in 25 overs. Scorecard not complete. Malaysia v Singapore Suresh Navaratnam 67 Dinesh Chelvathurai 4/51 (? overs)Graham Wilson 38 Jeevandran Nair 5/22 (? overs)
Malaysia won by 153 runsKuala Lumpur Player of the match: Suresh Navaratnam (Malaysia)
Maldives v Thailand Ibrahim Hussain 87 Pradeep Gulati 3/43 (? overs) Anil Tanwani 47 Mohamed Shahid 4/23 (? overs)
Maldives v Malaysia Ahmed Kaleem 30 Marimuthu Muniandy 4/26 (? overs) Suresh Singh 65 Mohamed Shahid 3/35 (? overs)
Malaysia won by 5 wicketsKuala Lumpur
Thailand v Papua New Guinea Mustaq Ahmed 37 Noel Kariko 5/9 (? overs) James Maha 45
United Arab Emirates v Singapore Azhar Saeed 79 Shehzad Haque 3/36 (? overs)Thaiyar Mohamed 55 Asim Saeed 4/20 (? overs)
Semi-finals Papua New Guinea v Bangladesh Arua Uda 31 (61) Mohammad Rafique 3/10 (7.1 overs)Habibul Bashar 45 (54) Vavine Pala 1/15 (7 overs)
Bangladesh won by 7 wicketsTenaga National Sports Complex , Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Shyam Bansal & Udaya Wickremasinghe Player of the match: Aminul Islam (Bangladesh)
Fiji v United Arab Emirates Taione Batina 35 (62) Azhar Saeed 4/16 (4 overs) Saleem Raza 45 (35) Taione Batina 2/? (? overs)
Final Bangladesh v United Arab Emirates Shahriar Hossain 58 (96) Saleem Raza 3/31 (10 overs)Arshad Laeeq 31* Salahuddin Ahmed 3/13 (6 overs)
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