The 2010 ACC Trophy Elite was a cricket tournament in Kuwait, taking place between March 31 and April 9, 2010. It gives Associate and Affiliate members of the Asian Cricket Council experience of international one-day cricket and also helps forms an essential part of regional rankings. The tournament was won by Afghanistan, who defeated Nepal by 95 runs in the final on April 9.
Teams
After the 2006 ACC Trophy it was decided to split the tournament into two divisions. The placement of teams in the divisions was based on their final positions in the last ACC Trophy. The top ten teams went on to take part in the 2008 ACC Trophy Elite and the remaining teams were placed in a lower division, the 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge. Bottom two teams were relegated from 2008 ACC Trophy Elite and top two teams from 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge were promoted. The teams that made it into the Trophy Elite were:
Squads Nawroz Mangal (C) Asghar Afghan Dawlat Ahmadzai Hamid Hassan Karim Sadiq Mirwais Ashraf Mohammad Nabi Mohammad Shahzad (wk) Nasratullah Nasrat Noor Ali Raees Ahmadzai Samiullah Shenwari Shabir Noori Shapoor ZadranBahrain withdrew from the tournament after being unable to field a team due to visa problems.Damber Gurung (C) Tshering Dorji Kumar Subba Kencho Norbu (wk) Sonam Tobgay Phuntsho Wangdi Dampo Dorji Tandin Wangchuk Lakshmi Kami Sushil Luitel Tshering Tashi Dorji Loday Sanjog Chhetri Barun WakhleyNajeeb Amar (C) Roy Lamsam Moner Ahmed Irfan Ahmed Nadeem Ahmed Waqas Barkat Hussain Butt Ilyas Gull Aizaz Khan Asif Khan Nizakat Khan Vikash Vaswani (wk) Nasir Hameed (wk) Jawaid IqbalHashim Mirza (C) Khalid Butt Lasantha Dimuthu Saif Ullah Muhammad Amin Nikhil Kulkarni Saud Iqbal Muhammad Javed Saad Khalid Nalaka Dayan Muhammad Murad Muhammad Akhudzada (wk) Khalid Yamin Haroon Shahid
Suhan Alagaratnam (C) Ahmed Faiz Faris Almas Rakesh Madhavan Damith Warusavithana Suresh Navaratnam Anwar Arudin Eszrafiq Azis Shukri Rahim Nik Arifin Shafiq Sharif (wk) Hassan Ghulam Norwira Rahim Shahrulnizam YusofParas Khadka (C) Mehboob Alam Binod Bhandari Amrit Bhattarai Dipendra Chaudhary Mahesh Chhetri (wk) Binod Das Shakti Gauchan Gyanendra Malla Anil Mandal Basanta Regmi Sanjam Regmi Sharad Vesawkar Rahul VishwakarmaSultan Ahmed (C) (wk) Rafeeq Al-Balushi Yousuf Mahmood Sufyan Mahmood Hemin Desai Adnan Ilyas (wk) Vaibhav Wategaonkar Zeeshan Siddiqui Awal Khan Khalid Rasheed Aamer Ali Nileshkumar Parmar Tariq Hussain Aamir KhaleemMunish Arora (C) Mohammad Ali Narender Reddy Chetan Suryawanshi (wk) Shoib Razak Mulewa Dharmichand Pramodh Raja Buddhika Mendis Saad Janjua Sagar Kulkarni Irfan Madakia Varun Varman Manbhir Singh Phil ChildsKhurram Khan (C) Naeemuddin Aslam Arshad Ali Saqib Ali Abdul Rehman (wk) Shadeep Silva Amjad Ali (wk) Salman Farooq Ahmed Raza Qassim Zubair Shoaib Sarwar Fayyaz Ahmed Qadar Nawaz Indika Sampath (wk)
Group stages Group A
Group B
Play-offs 9th place play-off
7th place play-off
5th place play-off
3rd place play-off
Semi-finals
Final
Final Placings
Pos Team Relegation 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th Qualified for WCL82012 9th Relegated to ACC Trophy Challenge Division 10th
Statistics Most runs2010 ACC Trophy Elite batting records Most wickets2010 ACC Trophy Elite bowling records Saqib Ali 267 Nadeem Ahmed 17 Karim Sadiq 261 Hameed Hasan 16 Asghar Afghan 253 Munir Dar 11 Vaibbhav Wategaonkar 238 Suresh Navaratnam 10 Anil Mandal 236 Sharul Nizam 9
Controversy The tournament was beset with players struggling to get visas to gain access to Kuwait. Bahrain were forced to withdraw from the tournament as they were unable to field a team after a large number of their players were refused visas.
Mohammad Nabi, the Afghanistan all-rounder was refused as visa, as was Hong Kong captain Najeeb Amar. Both were later able to gain entry to Kuwait and take part in the later stages of the tournament.
The Cricket Association of Nepal President Binay Raj Pandey has said his board intends to raise the issue at the next meeting of the Asian Cricket Council after Nepal vice-captain Gyanendra Malla had been refused entry to the country. In response to this, Pandey intends to ask the ACC not to host future tournaments in countries where obtaining a visa is difficult.CAN to raise visa issue in ACC meeting
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