The 2024 ACC Men's Premier Cup was the second edition of the ACC Men's Premier Cup, hosted by Oman Cricket from 12 to 21 April 2024. Ten associate teams competed in 24 matches across two venues in Oman, of whom eight teams directly qualified for the tournament through ICC T20I rankings and two advanced from the 2024 Challenger Cup. The defending champions (in 50-over format), Nepal were defeated in the semi-finals by the United Arab Emirates, who went onto defeat hosts Oman in the final, to win their maiden title. The United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Hong Kong (who defeated Nepal in 3rd place play-off) qualified for the 2025 Asia Cup, the 2024 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup, and the 2025 Asia Cup Rising Stars.
Background The ACC Men's Premier Cup is a biennial international cricket competition in the limited overs cricket format (an alternating format of 50-overs and 20-overs cricket), organised by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) since its inauguration in 2023. The competition is played by the top associate members of the ACC advancing from the ACC Men's Challenger Cup to determine qualification for the Asia Cup and the ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup. Nepal were the defending champions having won the 2023 edition in 50-over format.
The top 8 associate teams based on the ICC T20I rankings: Bahrain, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates directly qualified for the Premier Cup, while the next ranked 10 teams played in the Challenger Cup. Top 2 teams in the 2024 Challenger Cup: Saudi Arabia and Cambodia advanced to the Premier Cup.
The 10 participating teams were divided into two groups of five teams each. In the group stage, each team played each of the other teams in the group once in a round-robin format for 20 matches, and the top two teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage. The knockout stage consisted of two semi-finals, a third-place play-off and a final. In the 2024 tournament, all the matches were played in 20-over format with international status as Twenty20 International (T20I). The tournament was played across 2 venues in Oman: 14 matches at Turf 1 (including both semi-finals, 3rd place play-off and final) and 10 matches at Turf 2 of Oman Cricket Academy Ground in Al Amarat.
Squads Following squads were announced for the tournament: Bahrain: Sohail Ahmed, Imran Ali (wk), Sarfaraz Ali, Imran Anwar, Junaid Aziz, Ahmer Bin Nasir (wk), Haider Butt (c), Rizwan Butt, Ali Dawood, Abdul Majid, Abdul Majid Malik, Ubaid Martuza, Umer Toor (wk), Sathaiya Veerapathiran Cambodia: Etienne Beukes, Phon Bunthean, Luqman Butt (c), Sharwan Godara, Lakshit Gupta, Uday Hathinjar (wk), Utkarsh Jain, Asanka Gunarathne, Gulam Murtaza, Anish Prasad, Chanthoeun Rathanak, Te Senglong, Ram Sharan, Salvin Stanly, Pel Vannak (wk), Vimukthi Viraj Hong Kong: Zeeshan Ali (wk), Martin Coetzee, Adit Gorawara (wk), Babar Hayat, Ateeq Iqbal, Raunaq Kapur, Aizaz Khan, Ehsan Khan, Nizakat Khan (c), Yasim Murtaza, Nasrulla Rana, Dhananjay Rao, Anshuman Rath, Ayush Shukla Kuwait: Ilyas Ahmed, Clinto Anto, Mohammad Aslam (c), Meet Bhavsar (wk), Adnan Idrees, Parvinder Kumar, Nimish Lathief, Sayed Monib, Usman Patel (wk), Yasin Patel, Shahrukh Quddus, Ravija Sandaruwan, Bilal Tahir, Muhammad Umar Malaysia: Muhammad Amir, Aqeel Wahid, Syed Aziz, Ahmad Faiz, Ainool Hafizs (wk), Rizwan Haider, Khizar Hayat, Sharvin Muniandy, Nazmus Sakib, Pavandeep Singh, Virandeep Singh (c), Vijay Unni, Muhammad Wafiq, Zubaidi Zulkifle Nepal: Dipendra Singh Airee, Kushal Bhurtel, Abinash Bohara, Pratis GC, Gulsan Jha, Sundeep Jora, Sompal Kami, Karan KC, Kushal Malla, Rohit Paudel (c), Lalit Rajbanshi, Anil Sah, Aasif Sheikh (wk), Bibek Yadav Oman: Shakeel Ahmed, Pratik Athavale (wk), Fayyaz Butt, Aqib Ilyas, Khalid Kail, Kaleemullah, Ayaan Khan, Bilal Khan, Mehran Khan, Naseem Khushi (wk), Zeeshan Maqsood (c), Mohammad Nadeem, Kashyap Prajapati, Rafiullah Qatar: Mohammed Ahnaff, Saqlain Arshad, Amir Farooq, Mohammed Irshad, Muhammad Jabir, Shahzaib Jamil (wk), Ikramullah Khan, Kamran Khan, Gayan Munaweera, Himanshu Rathod, Musawar Shah, Muhammad Tanveer (c), Rifayi Theruvath Saudi Arabia: Kashif Abbas, Ishtiaq Ahmad, Manan Ali (wk), Usman Ali, Faisal Khan, Saad Khan, Usman Khalid, Usman Najeeb, Ahmad Raza, Hisham Sheikh (c), Zain Ul Abidin, Waji Ul Hassan, Atif-Ur-Rehman, Abdul Waheed United Arab Emirates: Aayan Afzal Khan, Rahul Bhatia, Muhammad Farooq, Syed Haider, Basil Hameed, Asif Khan, Ali Naseer, Akif Raja, Omid Shafi Rahman, Alishan Sharafu, Junaid Siddique, Vishnu Sukumaran, Tanish Suri (wk), Muhammad Waseem (c)
Group stage In the group stage, two groups of five teams played in a round-robin format for a total of 20 matches from 12 to 17 April 2024 across the two venues. The top two teams from each group: Nepal and Hong Kong from group A and Oman and the United Arab Emirates from group B advanced to the knockout stage.
Group A Group B
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage The knockout stage consisted of two semi-finals played on 19 April, a 3rd place play-off on 20 April, and a final played on 21 April. The top 3 teams from the tournament: the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Hong Kong qualified for the 2025 Asia Cup and the 2024 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup. In October 2025, the ACC announced that the Emerging Teams Asia Cup would be discontinued and be replaced by the Asia Cup Rising Stars; with the inaugural 2025 Asia Cup Rising Stars featuring all the same teams from the 2024 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup.
Bracket
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Semi-finals
3rd place play-off
Final
See also
2024 ACC Women's Premier Cup
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