ACC Men's Challenger Cup

2023 ACC Men's Challenger Cup

Dates	February 24 – 5 March 2023
Administrator(s)	Asian Cricket Council
Cricket format	List A Cricket
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and Knockout
Host(s)	Thailand
Participants	8
Matches	15

The 2023 ACC Men's Challenger Cup is the inaugural edition of the Men's Challenger Cup, with the matches to be played in List A Cricket (50 overs) format. While Thailand being the hosts of the tournament. This tournament is part of the qualification pathway towards Asia Cup 2023. with 8 teams taking part in the tournament.

On 9 February 2023 ACC announced the schedule of the tournament. with 8 teams taking part in it including the host Thailand and Bahrain, Bhutan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Maldives, Iran, Myanmar

Teams

Group A	Group B
Bhutan Maldives Bahrain Iran	Saudi Arabia Indonesia Thailand Myanmar

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Bhutan	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
2	Bahrain	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
3	Maldives	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
4	Iran	0	0	0	0	0	0	—

Updated to match(es) played on 24 February 2023. Source:

24 February 2023 8:30 Scorecard

Bhutan 104 (32.2 overs)	v	Bahrain 105/3 (29.3 overs)
Thinley Jamtsho 30 (34) Sathaiya Veerapathiran 3/15 (6.1 overs)		Junaid Aziz 56 (85) Suprit Pradhan 2/18 (4.3 over)

Bahrain won by 7 wickets Asian Institute of Technology Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Samad Akbar (THA) & Durga Subedi (NEP) Player of the match: Junaid Aziz (BHN)

• Bahrain won the toss and elected to field.

24 February 2023 8:30

Maldives 157 (31.2 overs)	v	Iran 130 (42.3 overs)
Umar Adam 58 (40) Zahed Afarin 5/22 (8.2 overs)		Zahed Afarin 25 (59) Umar Adam 4/22 (10 overs)

Maldives won by 27 runs Terdthai Cricket Ground, Bangkok Umpires: Anad Natarajan (SIN) & Arif Ansari (THA) Player of the match: Zahed Afarin (IRN)

• Maldives won the toss and elected to bat.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Indonesia	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
2	Myanmar	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
3	Saudi Arabia	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
4	Thailand	0	0	0	0	0	0	—

Updated to match(es) played on 24 February 2023. Source: