ACC Premier League, the three-tier tournament was evolved from the former two-tier ACC Trophy cricket competition. The 2014–15 season started with the top-tier tournament which was held in Malaysia in May. It gives Associate and Affiliate members of the Asian Cricket Council experience of international one-day cricket and also helps form an essential part of regional rankings. Some of the individual matches were given One Day International (ODI) status by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
The top four teams of top-tier tournament, Afghanistan, UAE, Nepal and Oman qualified for the 2014 ACC Championship, while Hong Kong and Malaysia remained in the 2016 ACC Premier League. In the second division held in Singapore between 7–13 July, the host winning the tournament also qualified for the same tournament. Results of the ACC Premier League 2014 was determined on rankings in the final table. If two or more teams had equal points, rankings were decided by net run-rate.
Teams – 1st in 2012 ACC Trophy Elite (tied with UAE) – 1st in 2012 ACC Trophy Elite (tied with Nepal) – 3rd in 2012 ACC Trophy Elite – 4th in 2012 ACC Trophy Elite – 5th in 2012 ACC Trophy Elite – 6th in 2012 ACC Trophy Elite
Squads Paras Khadka (c) Gyanendra Malla (vc) Subash Khakurel (wk) Mehboob Alam Binod Bhandari Naresh Budhayer Shakti Gauchan Ramnaresh Giri Sompal Kami Rohan Bhujhel Mandip Phuyal Basanta Regmi Aarif Sheikh Sharad VesawkarKhurram Khan (c) Amjad Ali (wk) Abdul Haq Ahmed Raza Fayyaz Ahmed Irfan Sajjad Kamran Shazad Krishnachandran Karate Mohammad Naveed Mohammad Shahzad Noor-ul-Amin Swapnil Patil Salman Faris Shaiman AnwarMohammad Nabi (c) Shafiqullah (wk) Aftab Alam Amir Hamza Dawlat Zadran Hashmatullah Shaidi Mirwais Ashraf Mohammad Mujtaba Nasir Ahmadzai Noor Ali Zadran Rahmat Shah Samiullah Shenwari Shapoor Zadran Usman GhaniAhmed Faiz (c) Shafiq Sharif (wk) Anwar Arudin Hammadullah Khan Hassan Ghulam Hiran Ralalage Irfan Zarbani Khizar Hayat Nasir Shafiq Pavandeep Singh Shahrulnizam Yusof Shukri Rahim Suhan Alagaratnam Suharril Fetri Suresh NavaratnamJamie Atkinson (c, wk) Aizaz Khan Ankur Sharma Babar Hayat Ehsan Nawaz Haseeb Amjad Irfan Ahmed Roy Lamsam Nadeem Ahmed Nizakat Khan Skhawat Ali Tanwir Afzal Waqas BarkatSultan Ahmed (c, wk) Aamir Kaleem Amir Ali Munis Ansari Arif Hussain Jatinder Singh Khawar Ali Ajay Lalcheta Mohammad Nadeem Rajesh Ranpura Shuaib Al Balushi Vaibhav Wategaonkar Zeeshan Maqsood Zeeshan Siddiqui
Points table
Matches
Statistics
Most runs The top five run scorers (total runs) are included in this table. Player Team Runs Inns Avg S/R HS 100s 50sUsman Ghani 228 5 45.60 85.07 70 0 3Amjad Ali 207 5 41.40 83.46 98 0 1Irfan Ahmed 201 5 40.20 96.17 106 1 0Noor Ali Zadran 199 5 39.80 75.66 67 0 2Samiullah Shenwari 173 5 57.66 100.58 82* 0 1
Most wickets The top five wicket takers (total wickets) are listed in this table. Player Team Wkts Mts Ave S/R Econ BBISompal Kami 15 5 15.13 17.2 5.25 5/47Irfan Ahmed 10 5 16.60 22.9 4.34 3/17Aamir Kaleem 9 5 14.11 21.4 3.94 4/36Dawlat Zadran 9 4 15.44 18.4 5.02 4/26Basanta Regmi 9 5 20.11 30.8 3.90 3/42
See also 2023 Men's Premier Cup
References