2000 ACC Trophy
Cricket format 50 overs per side
Tournament format(s) Round robin and knockout Host United Arab Emirates
Champions United Arab Emirates (1st title)Participants 8
Matches 15
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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:
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 Team Pld W L NR NRR Pts Hong Kong 3 3 0 0 1.442 6 Malaysia 3 2 1 0 0.071 4 Kuwait 3 1 2 0 -0.983 2 Singapore 3 0 3 0 -0.579 0
Hong Kong v 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 runsSharjah Cricket Association Stadium , Sharjah Umpires: Mohammad Nazir & Nasir Butt Player of the match: Stewart Brew (Hong Kong)
Singapore v Kuwait Andrew Scott 103* (152) Z.N. Butt 2/30 (8 over)Mohammad Nawaz 94 (94) Rishi Kaul 3/38 (10 overs)
Kuwait won by 3 wicketsDubai Cricket Council Ground No 1 , Dubai Umpires: Lalith Jayasundara & Satyajit Sarkar Player of the match: Mohammad Nawaz (Kuwait)
Hong Kong v Singapore Rahul Sharma 95 (121) Rishi Kaul 3/48 (10 overs)Andrew Scott 58 (90) Alexander French 3/43 (10 overs)
Malaysia v Kuwait 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 runsDubai Cricket Council Ground No 1 , Dubai Umpires: Manzoor Ali Hassan & Satyajit Sarkar Player of the match: Suresh Navaratnam (Malaysia)
Kuwait v 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 wicketsDubai Cricket Council Ground No 1 , Dubai Umpires: Shyam Bansal & Nasir Butt Player of the match: Jawaid Iqbal (Hong Kong)
Singapore v Malaysia Andrew Scott 62 (103) Rohan Suppiah 3/27 (10 overs)Rohan Selvaratnam 84* (94) Kapila Mendis 3/42 (9 overs)
Group B Team Pld W L NR NRR Pts United Arab Emirates 3 3 0 0 1.285 6 Nepal 3 2 1 0 0.886 4 Maldives 3 1 2 0 0.461 2 Japan 3 0 3 0 -3.653 0
Nepal v United Arab Emirates Ganesh Thakuri 68 (89) Saeed-al-Saffar 5/41 (9.5 overs) Saeed-al-Saffar 89 (117) Jay Sarraf 2/20 (7 overs)
Japan v 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 wicketsSharjah Cricket Association Stadium , Sharjah Umpires: Lalith Jayasundara & Surjit Singh Player of the match: Imad Ismail (Maldives)
Japan v Nepal Hirokazu Takahashi 28 (74) Binod Das 3/24 (9 overs) Kiran Agrawal 53* (63) Ken Wadano 1/17 (2 overs)
Nepal won by 7 wicketsDubai Cricket Council Ground No 2 , Dubai Umpires: Mohammad Nazir & Sarika Prasad Player of the match: Kiran Agrawal (Nepal)
Maldives v United Arab Emirates Ismail Nadheem 34 (73) Ahmed Nadeem 3/14 (7 overs) Nasir Siddiqi 50* (68) Ismail Nihad 1/13 (5 overs)
United Arab Emirates won by 7 wicketsSharjah Cricket Association Stadium , Sharjah Umpires: Manzur Rahman & Surjit Singh Player of the match: Ahmed Nadeem (UAE)
Maldives v Nepal Ismail Nadheem 38 (27) Jay Sarraf 3/50 (9 overs) Kiran Agrawal 91 (130) Moosa Kaleem 2/37 (10 overs)
Nepal won by 5 wicketsSharjah Cricket Association Stadium , Sharjah Umpires: Mohammad Nazir & Sarika Prasad Player of the match: Kiran Agrawal (Nepal)
Japan v United Arab Emirates Hirokazu Takahashi 18 (47) Mohammad Tauqir 6/10 (10 overs) Babar Malik 30 (41) Ken Wadano 2/18 (5 overs)
United Arab Emirates won by 6 wicketsDubai Cricket Council Ground No 2 , Dubai Umpires: Manzur Rahman & Surjit Singh Player of the match: Mohammad Tauqir (UAE)
Semi-finals Hong Kong v Nepal Rahul Sharma 145* (136) Mehboob Alam 1/18 (6 overs)Raju Khadka 18 (16) Stewart Brew 4/20 (5 overs)
Malaysia v United Arab Emirates Shankar Retinam 59 (87) Miraj Khaliq 4/33 (10 overs)Kashif Tareen 69* (88) Suresh Navaratnam 1/34 (10 overs)
Final Hong Kong v United Arab Emirates Rahul Sharma 78 (129) Asim Saeed 4/32 (10 overs)Mahmood Pir Baksh 56 (89) Mohammad Zubair 4/30 (10 overs)
Statistics External links 2012-10-21 at the Wayback Machine