The 2016 Asia Cup Qualifier was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament held in Bangladesh from 19 to 22 February 2016. The event served as a qualifier for the 2016 Asia Cup, which was held in the same country from 24 February to 6 March 2016. The tournament was played as a round-robin, with the participants being the four Asian associate members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with T20I status. The United Arab Emirates won all three of its matches, joining Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka in the main event.Peter Della Penna (4 November 2015). "Asia Cup T20 Qualifier scheduled for February" – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
Background and teams The Asia Cup Qualifier was originally scheduled to be held in the United Arab Emirates in November 2015.Peter Della Penna (4 September 2015). "One Associate to feature in 2016 Asia Cup" – ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 November 2015. However, following a scheduling conflict, it was later decided to move the event, with it now serving as a lead-in to the main tournament. In previous years where associates have participated in the Asia Cup, no standalone qualifier has been held, with teams instead qualifying via the ACC Trophy (2004, 2008) or by invitation (2014).Paul Radley (4 January 2014). – The National. Retrieved 5 November 2015. Of the four teams, Oman made their Asia Cup debut.
Teams
Squads Asghar Stanikzai (c) Noor Ali Zadran Mohammad Shahzad Usman Ghani Mohammad Nabi Karim Sadiq Shafiqullah Rashid Khan Amir Hamza Dawlat Zadran Shapoor Zadran Gulbadin Naib Samiullah Shinwari Najibullah Zadran Yamin Ahmadzai Tanwir Afzal (c) Mark Chapman (vc) Haseeb Amjad Nadeem Ahmed Tanveer Ahmed Waqas Barkat Christopher Carter Babar Hayat Nizakat Khan Aizaz Khan Waqas Khan Adil Mehmood Kinchit Shah Ninad Shah Anshuman Rath Sultan Ahmed (c) Aamir Kaleem Aaqib Sulehri Adnan Ilyas Amir Ali Munis Ansari Bilal Khan Jatinder Singh Ajay Lalcheta Mehran Khan Rajeshkumar Ranpura Sufyan Mehmood Vaibhav Wategaonkar Zeeshan Maqsood Zeeshan Siddiqui Amjad Javed (c) Swapnil Patil Ahmed Raza Fahad Tariq Farhan Ahmed Mohammad Naveed Mohammad Shahzad Muhammad Usman Muhammad Kaleem Qadeer Ahmed Rohan Mustafa Saqlain Haider Shaiman Anwar Usman Mushtaq Zaheer Maqsood
Venues FatullahDhaka Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium Coordinates: Coordinates: Capacity: 18,000 Capacity: 26,000
Points table {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;white-space:nowrap" |- ! Pos !width="220"| Team !width="20"| !width="20"| !width="20"| !width="20"| !width="20"| !width="20"| ! |- style="background:#cfc;" |1||style="text-align:left"| | 3 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 6 || +1.678 |- style="background:#fcc;" |2||style="text-align:left"| | 3 || 2 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 4 || +0.954 |- style="background:#fcc;" |3||style="text-align:left"| | 3 || 1 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2 || –1.222 |- style="background:#fcc;" |4||style="text-align:left"| | 3 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 0 || –1.416 |} Advance to 2016 Asia Cup
Matches
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