The 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge was a cricket tournament in Chiang Mai, Thailand, taking place between 12 and 21 January 2009. It gave Associate and Affiliate members of the Asian Cricket Council experience of international one-day cricket and also formed part of the regional qualifications for the ICC World Cricket League. The top 2 teams were promoted to the ACC Trophy Elite Division. Bhutan also qualified for the WCL82010
Teams After the 2006 ACC Trophy a decision was made to split the tournament into two divisions. The placement of teams in these divisions was determined by the final rankings in the previous tournament. The top ten teams went into the 2008 ACC Trophy Elite with the remaining teams taking part in the 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge. They were also joined by China who had not previously taken part in the tournament.
Qualified through participation in 2006 ACC Trophy:
Newcomers to the ACC Trophy:
Squads Tshering Dorji (Captain)Jigme SingyeThinley JamtshoDilip SubbaSonam TobgayPhuntsho WangdiTandin WangchukLobzang YontenDorjiKumar SubbaKencho NorbuDampoThinley TenzinJigme Norbu (Manager)Damber Gurung (Coach)Sujaya Kamat (Captain)Manzur AhmedMuhamad AleemShorin KhanBasil GeorgeSreejith KallumpurathMuhammed AlaudeenSamantha WeerakoonRabeek AbbasJahaber KiyasudeenKamalan MuneeswaranSinnathurai IndurajArafat MahabubAbdul GaffoorHaji Mosli Mohamad (Manager)Manzur Ahmed (Coach)Zhao Yang (Captain)Guo FengfengWang RonggangDong ChaoWang LeiZhang XinliangFu XianchaoHe NengxingAi DiJiang ShuyaoZhang PengLi JianZhang YufeiZhong WenyiZhang Tian (Manager)Rashid Khan (Coach)Nariman Bakhtiar (Captain)Atnan ZehiEbrahim BadrouzehShoeyb KhorsandYahya SheikhiRashed BameriAbdolvahab EbrahimipourAlireza ShatrangShirmohammad BalouchnezhadLiaghat-Ali NarouieYousef RaeisiLoghman SheikhiZaven BabakhaniDadkhoda Shahouzehi (Manager)Armond Nahabedian (Coach)
Moosa Kaleem (Captain)Afzal FaizAbdulla ShahidAbdulla ShafeeuNeesham NasirIsmail NihadMahafooz MohamedHusham IbrahimAhmed HussainMihusan HamidHassan IbrahimAhmed HusseinShafraz JaleelMuviath GhaneeAli Manik (Manager)Hemal Mendis (Coach)Ye Myo Tun (Captain)Aye Min ThanSai Sai WunnaThaw ZinSan TheinMyat Min HeinWin MawZaw HtooMaung Maung WinNaung Hhlaing TunMyo WinKyaw Ze ZaYe Min SoeAung AungThan Win (Manager)Michael Moosajee (Coach)Hemal Mehta (Captain)Sultan AhmedAdnan IlyasNileshkumar ParmarVaibhav WategaonkarAwal KhanFarhan KhanAamer AliHaider AliMasqood HussainAmeet SampatKhalid Al-BalushiKhalid RasheedQaim HussainMadhu Jesrani (Manager)Mazhar Khan (Coach)Zeeshan Khan (Captain)John HottingerNoppon SennamontreeThanatit JeerapanthawongAnil TanwaniAshish DeyDeepak SaraffAkshay DesaiNishadh RegoShyam SideekVishal PathkarShishir TurilayShaik CaderShreyanshu Tewari
Match OfficialsRamani Batumalai (Malaysia)Koo Chai Huat (Malaysia)Upul Kaluhetti (Thailand)Mohammed Kamrulzzaman (Thailand)Ashwin Kumar Rana (Thailand)K.G. Srinivasan (Singapore)
Group stage Points Tables Green denotes teams going into the semifinals. Yellow denotes teams that play in the fifth place playoff and remain in the ACC Trophy Challenge Division. Red denotes teams that play in the seventh place playoff and remain in the ACC Trophy Challenge Division.
Group A
Team Pld W T L NR Pts NRR 3 3 0 0 0 6 +6.81 3 2 0 1 0 4 +0.41 3 1 0 2 0 2 −0.90 3 0 0 3 0 0 −3.76Group B
Team Pld W T L NR Pts NRR 3 3 0 0 0 6 +1.88 3 2 0 1 0 4 +3.27 3 1 0 2 0 2 +0.67 3 0 0 3 0 0 −6.29
Fixtures and results
Semifinals Winners of the semifinals were promoted to the ACC Trophy Elite Division and qualified for the final.
Final and Playoffs
Final Placings Pos Team Promotion/Relegation 1st Promoted to ACC Trophy Elite Division 2nd Qualified for 2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Eight 3rd Remain in ACC Trophy Challenge Division 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
Statistics
References
External links 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge – Official Site