2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup explained

2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup
Fromdate:	6
Todate:	15 December 2018
Administrator:	Asian Cricket Council
Cricket Format:	List A
Tournament Format:	Group andKnockout
Host:	Sri Lanka Pakistan
Count:	2
Participants:	8
Matches:	15
Player Of The Series:	Kamindu Mendis
Most Runs:	Kamindu Mendis (310)^[1]
Most Wickets:	Mayank Markande (12)^[2]
Previous Year:	2017
Next Year:	2019

The 2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup was the third edition of the ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup held in Karachi, Pakistan and Colombo, Sri Lanka.^[3] Eight teams participated in the tournament including five under-23 age level teams of Test nations and top three teams from 2018 Asia Cup Qualifier. This tournament was organized by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC).^[4] Initially, Pakistan was sole host for the tournament but India and BCCI refused to send Indian players to Pakistan.^[5] Following the increasing political tensions between India and Pakistan, ACC announced that Sri Lanka would be the co-host whilst India's matches and knockout stage will be played there.^{[6] [7]} The U-23 teams from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan qualified for the semi-finals. Sri Lanka's U-23 defeated India U-23 by 3 runs in the final to win the tournament.^[8]

Teams

Group A	Group B
	(2018 Asia Cup Qualifier) (1st)
(2018 Asia Cup Qualifier) (2nd)	(2018 Asia Cup Qualifier) (3rd)

Squads

^[9]	^[10]	^[11]	^[12]
valign=top	Najibullah Zadran (c) Azmatullah Omarzai Darwish Rasooli Fazal Haque Ibrahim Zadran Ihsan Janat Ikram Ali Khil (wk) Karim Janat Nasir Jamal Qais Ahmad Rahmanullah Gurbaz Shahidullah Wafadar Momand Zahir Khan Zia-ur-Rehman	valign=top	Nurul Hasan (c & wk) Mosaddek Hossain Najmul Hossain Shanto Mizanur Rahman Shafiul Islam Zakir Hasan Saif Hassan Yasir Ali Tanvir Islam Afif Hossain Naeem Hasan Shoriful Islam Qazi Onik Mohor Sheikh Khaled Ahmed	valign=top	Aizaz Khan (c) Aftab Hussain Arshad Mohammad Babar Hayat Ehsan Khan Ehsan Nawaz Hamed Khan Mohammad Ghazanfar Mohammad Hassan Nizakat Khan Raag Kapur Shahid Wasif (wk) Tanveer Ahmed Tanwir Afzal Waqas Khan	valign=top	Jayant Yadav (c) Ankush Bains (wk) Siddharth Desai Ruturaj Gaikwad Himmat Singh Deepak Hooda Mayank Markande Shams Mulani Prabhsimran Singh (wk) Prasidh Krishna Ankit Rajpoot Nitish Rana Atit Sheth Shivam Mavi Atharwa Taide
^[13]	^[14]	^[15]	^[16]
valign=top	Zeeshan Maqsood (c) Twinkal Bhandari Aqib Ilyas Bilal Khan Nestor Dhamba Fayyaz Butt Jatinder Singh Jay Odedra Kaleemullah Khawar Ali Ajay Lalcheta Moonamchery Michal Mohammad Nadeem Suraj Kumar Wasim Ali	valign=top	Mohammad Rizwan (c & wk) Sahibzada Farhan Zeeshan Malik Ali Imran Hussain Talat Saad Ali Khushdil Shah Saud Shakil Ashiq Ali Muhammad Asghar Ghulam Mudassar Sameen Gul Musa Khan Mohammad Ilyas Suleman Shafqat	valign=top	Charith Asalanka (c) Shammu Ashan Kamindu Mendis Avishka Fernando Hasitha Boyagoda Sandun Weerakkody Asela Gunaratne Nishan Madushka Jeffrey Vandersay Lasith Ambuldeniya Nishan Peiris Shehan Madushanka Asitha Fernando Jehan Daniel Chamika Karunaratne	valign=top	Rohan Mustafa (c) Muhammad Naveed Ashfaq Ahmed Fahad Nawaz Rameez Shahzad Shaiman Anwar Muhammad Usman Muhammad Boota Ghulam Shabber (wk) Imran Haider Tahir Latif Ahmed Raza Amir Hayat Zahoor Khan Qadeer Ahmed

Group stage

Group A

------------------------

Group B

--------------------

Knockouts

Semi finals

----

Final

External links

Series home at ESPNcricinfo

Notes and References

1. Web site: ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2018 Most Runs Top 10 . Cricbuzz. 15 December 2018.
2. Web site: ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2018 Most Wickets Top 10 . Cricbuzz. 15 December 2018.
3. Web site: ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2018 . Asian Cricket Council . 3 December 2018.
4. Web site: Fixtures, Schedule ACC Emerging Teams Cup . Asian Cricket Council. 26 November 2018.
5. Web site: Pakistan to host ACC Emerging Cup in 2018. Times of India. 27 November 2018.
6. Web site: Pakistan to host Emerging Asia Cup in 2018 . 30 October 2017 . Wisden India . https://web.archive.org/web/20171029164245/http://www.wisdenindia.com/cricket-news/pakistan-to-host-emerging-asia-cup-in-2018/275977 . 29 October 2017 . dead .
7. Web site: BCCI refuses to play in Pakistan. First Post. 26 November 2018.
8. Web site: Sri Lanka Beat India by Three Runs to Clinch Emerging Teams Asia Cup. News 18. 15 December 2018. 16 December 2018.
9. Web site: Afghanistan Squad Announced for ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup . Afghanistan Cricket Board . 3 December 2018 . 3 December 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181203202837/https://cricket.af/acb-news-info/803 . dead .
10. Web site: Media Release : ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2018: Bangladesh emerging squad announced . Bangladesh Cricket Board . 3 December 2018.
11. Web site: Aizaz Khan to replace injured Anshuman Rath as captain for Emerging Nations Cup! . Hong Kong Cricket . 3 December 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181204005753/http://www.hkcricket.org/en/media/news/aizaz-khan-to-replace-injured-anshuman-rath-as-captain-for-emerging-nations-cup . 4 December 2018 . dead .
12. Web site: India Under-23s Squad . ESPN Cricinfo . 3 December 2018.
13. Web site: Oman Under-23s Squad . ESPN Cricinfo . 3 December 2018.
14. Web site: Pakistan squad announced for Emerging Asia Cup 2018 to Co-Host by Pakistan and Sri Lanka . Pakistan Cricket Board . 3 December 2018.
15. Web site: Sri Lanka Squad for the ACC Emerging Teams Cup 2018 . Sri Lanka Cricket . 3 December 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181203202707/http://www.srilankacricket.lk/news/sri-lanka-squad-for-the-acc-emerging-teams-cup-2018 . 3 December 2018 . dead .
16. Web site: Emirates Cricket Board announce team that will represent the UAE in Asia Cricket's Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2018 . Emirates Cricket Board . 3 December 2018.