The 2006 ACC Trophy was a cricket tournament in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, taking place between 14 August and 26 August 2006. It gave associate and affiliate members of the Asian Cricket Council experience in international one-day cricket.
| Administrator(s) | Asian Cricket Council |
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| Cricket format | 50 overs per side |
| Tournament format(s) | round robin with playoffs |
| Host(s) |  Malaysia |
| Champions |  United Arab Emirates (4th title) |
| Participants | 17 |
| Matches | 40 |
| Most runs | Arshad Ali – 461 |
| Most wickets | Afzaal Haider – 14 Binod Das – 14 Shadeep Silva – 14 |
| Official website | asiancricket.org |
This was the last tournament in which all teams played in the same tournament. After this tournament, the Asian Cricket Council decided to split the tournament into two divisions. The top ten teams would be promoted to the 2008 ACC Trophy Elite and the rest of the teams would be relegated to the 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge.
Teams
editThere were 17 teams that played in the tournament. These teams were non-test member nations of the Asian Cricket Council. The teams that played were:
Squads
editGroup stage
editTop two from each group qualifies for the quarterfinals.
Group A
editPoints table
edit| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | NRR | Points |
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| United Arab Emirates
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3.65 | 6 |
| Malaysia
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3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1.02 | 3 |
 Saudi Arabia
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | +1.91 | 2 |
 Brunei
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3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | -6.71 | 1 |
| Team qualifies for Quarterfinals | |
| Team does not qualify for Quarterfinals |
Fixtures
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Stephen Whitely 16* (65)
Thushara Kodikara 2/19 (10 overs) |
- Match abandoned due to rain
18 August 2006
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Sarfraz Ahmed 167* (95)
Muhamed Shereef 2/143 (10 overs) |
Bilal Javed 62 (42)
Fahad Suleiman 4/28 (10 overs) |
- Rain reduced Brunei's innings to 46 overs. Revised target is 470 in 46 overs.
Group B
editPoints table
edit| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | NRR | Points |
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 Singapore
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3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | +1.61 | 5 |
 Bahrain
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -0.21 | 4 |
 Oman
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -0.16 | 2 |
 Maldives
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3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | -2.22 | 1 |
| Team qualifies for Quarterfinals | |
| Team does not qualify for Quarterfinals |
Fixtures
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Abdullah Shahid 43 (34)
Hemal Mehta 3/34 (10 overs) |
Hemin Desai 67 (75)
Moosa Kaleem 2/37 (10 overs) |
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Munish Arora 111 (126)
Shafeeq Ahmed 3/61 (9 overs) |
Ashraf Mughal 45 (64)
Buddhika Mendis 3/24 (7 overs) |
17 August 2006
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Munish Arora 67 (90)
Hemin Desai 3/22 (9 overs) |
Awal Khan 31 (55)
Pramodh Raja 3/24 (6.3 overs) |
18 August 2006
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Glenn Meyer 37 (81)
Abdulla Shahid 3/28 (7.4 overs) |
- Match abandoned due to rain.
Group C
editPoints table
edit| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | NRR | Points |
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 Nepal
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4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3.18 | 8 |
 Hong Kong
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4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +2.65 | 5 |
 Kuwait
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4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | +2.62 | 5 |
 Bhutan
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4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | -3.37 | 2 |
 Myanmar
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4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | -8.72 | 0 |
| Team qualifies for Quarterfinals | |
| Team does not qualify for Quarterfinals |
Fixtures
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Saud Qamar 44 (70)
Binod Das 3/39 (8 overs) |
Gyanendra Malla 79 (108)
Habibullah Iftikhar 1/35 (8 overs) |
15 August 2006
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Extras (b 1, lb 4, w 16, nb 1) 22
Manoj Adhikari 15 (36) Hussain Butt 4/20 (8 overs) |
Tim Smart 32* (49)
Phuntsho Wangdi 1/26 (4 overs) |
16 August 2006
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Abdul Rahman 31 (66)
Kashif Butt 2/6 (3 overs) |
Kashif Butt 60* (21)
Sharjeel 1/40 (2 overs) |
- Rain reduced match to 45 overs per side
16 August 2006
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Paras Khadka 87 (68)
Phuntsho Wangdi 3/60 (10 overs) |
Bikash Luital 14 (20)
Binod Das 5/24 (8 overs) |
18 August 2006
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Saud Qamar 122 (77)
Lobzang Yonten 3/89 (10 overs) |
Manoj Adhikari 28 (69)
Saud Qamar 3/25 (10 overs) |
19 August 2006
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Mohamed 21 (27)
Jigme Singye 5/14 (8.4 overs) |
Bikash Sharma 34* (20)
Sulaiman 1/10 (1 over) |
20 August 2006
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Hisham Mirza 78 (101)
Afzaal Haider 3/52 (10 overs) |
Khalid Khan 74 (60)
Azmatullah Muhammed 3/40 (10 over) |
20 August 2006
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Extras (b 0, lb 3, w 2, nb 0) 5
Zarkariya 1 (20) Mohammed 1 (3) Ye Myo Tun 1 (11) Zin Min Swe 1 (9) Yusuf 1 (11) Mehboob Alam 7/3 (6.1 overs) |
- Myanmar's score of 10 was the lowest in any level of men's international cricket.
Group D
editPoints table
edit| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | NRR | Points |
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 Afghanistan
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3.27 | 6 |
 Qatar
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +1.24 | 4 |
 Thailand
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3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -0.39 | 2 |
 Iran
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3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | -3.87 | 0 |
| Team qualifies for Quarterfinals | |
| Team does not qualify for Quarterfinals |
Fixtures
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Raees Ahmadzai 70 (108)
Saleem Akhtar 4/21 (10 overs) |
Abdul Rasheed 60 (93)
Naseer Khan 3/26 (9 overs) |
15 August 2006
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Nariman Bakhtiar 57 (85)
Shyam Sideek 4/18 (6 overs) |
Richard Bowater 49* (87)
Najib Arjmandi 1/27 (10 overs) |
16 August 2006
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Ebrahim Badrouzeh 38 (122)
Hamid Hassan 2/10 (6 overs) |
- Rain reduced match to 42 overs per side
17 August 2006
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John Hottinger 50 (74)
Qamar Sadiq 3/37 (10 overs) |
Irfan Hussain 100 (97)
Zeeshan Khan 2/47 (10 overs) |
18 August 2006
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Karim Khan 41 (41)
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- Rain reduced Afghanistan's innings to 22 overs. Revised target is 64 runs in 22 overs.
20 August 2006
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Omer Taj 178 (141)
Abdolvahab Ebrahimpour 2/70 (7 overs) |
Nariman Bakhtiar 68 (97)
Saleem Akhtar 3/21 (10 overs) |
Quarterfinals
editThe teams that win their matches qualify for the semifinals. The losing teams compete for 5th place in the plate semifinals.
22 August 2006
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Munish Arora 65 (75)
Irfan Ahmed 2/28 (4 overs) |
Hussain Butt 100 (117)
Arun Vijayan 3/49 (8 overs) |
Semifinals
editThe teams that win their matches qualify for the final. The losing teams compete in the third place playoff.
24 August 2006
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- Due to rain, the match was abandoned after 35.2 overs of the Afghanistan innings at which point, to have won on the Duckworth-Lewis calculation, they would have needed to be on 126. Afghanistan, however, were on 108 for 7.
3rd Place Playoff
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Shakti Gauchan 42 (70)
Ahmad Shah 3/33 (10 overs) |
- Due to rain, the match was abandoned after 37.4 overs of the Nepal innings at which stage, according to the Duckworth-Lewis calculations, par score for a tie was 179.
- Both Afghanistan and Nepal qualified for 5 as a result of this match.
Final
editPlate
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Muhammad Jahangir 70 (77)
Qamar Saeed 3/37 (10 overs) |
Ashraf Mughal 37 (42)
Kamran Khan 2/36 (6 overs) |
- 5th place playoff semifinal 1
- Due to rain, the match was abandoned at 29.3 overs. According to the Duckwoth-Lewis method, par score for a win by Bahrain at that stage was 122.
- Singapore qualified for 2008 ICC World Cricket League Division Five as a result of this match.
24 August 2006
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Munish Arora 68 (84)
Thushara Kodikara 2/42 (8 overs) |
Suresh Navaratnam 40 (50)
Shoib Razzak 3/29 (8.1 overs) |
- 5th place playoff semifinal 2
25 August 2006
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Buddhika Mendis 55 (57)
Dharmesh Kumar 2/26 (9 overs) |
Akmal Malik 33* (28)
Shoib Razzak 2/2 (3 overs) |
- 5th place playoff
- Because of rain, the match was abandoned after 23 overs of the Bahrain innings when, according to the Duckworth-Lewis method, par score for a tie was 113.
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Muhammad Jahangir 59 (90)
Ezrafiq Aziz 3/49 (10 overs) |
Suhan Kumar 75 (104)
Zaheeruddin 1/22 (7 overs) |
- 7th place playoff
- Due to rain, the match was abandoned after 33.3 overs of the Malaysia innings with the par score at that stage, according to the Duckworth-Lewis Method, being 125.
Final placings
editThe top eight were ranked on their performance in the quarterfinals and playoffs. The rest were ranked based on the points and net run rate attained during the group stage.
| Pos | Team | Promotion/Relegation | Qualification | |
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| 1st | United Arab Emirates |
Promoted to 2008 ACC Trophy Elite | Qualified for 2008 Asia Cup | |
| 2nd | Hong Kong |
Qualified for 2007 ICC World Cricket League Division Three | ||
| 3rd | Afghanistan |
Qualified for 2008 ICC World Cricket League Division Five | ||
| 4th | Nepal
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| 5th | Singapore
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| 6th | Bahrain
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| 7th | Malaysia
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| 8th | Qatar
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| 9th | Kuwait
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| 10th | Saudi Arabia
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| 11th | Oman |
Relegated to 2009 ACC Trophy Challenge | ||
| 12th | Thailand
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| 13th | Bhutan
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| 14th | Maldives
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| 15th | Iran
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| 16th | Brunei
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| 17th | Myanmar
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Statistics
edit| Most Runs | Most Wickets | ||
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| Arshad Ali |
461 | Afzaal Haider |
14 |
| Rahul Sharma |
378 | Binod Das |
14 |
| Mohammed Jahangir |
364 | Shadeep Silva |
14 |
| Munish Arora |
346 | Najeeb Amar |
13 |
| Saqib Ali |
321 | 3 others with | 11 |