2011 ACC Twenty20 Cup
# 2011 ACC Twenty20 Cup

The 2011 ACC Twenty20 Cup was played between 3–11 December 2011 in Nepal. The tournament acted as a qualifying tournament for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier. The tournament was won by defending champions Afghanistan who defeated Hong Kong in the final to win the tournament for a third time. Afghanistan had already qualified for the World Twenty20 Qualifier as an Associate Member of the International Cricket Council with One Day International status. They will be joined in the qualifying event by Hong Kong, Oman and Nepal.

## Squads

| Afghanistan | Bhutan | Hong Kong | Kuwait | Malaysia |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Nawroz Mangal (c) Asghar Afghan Dawlat Zadran Gulbudeen Naib Hamid Hassan Karim Sadiq (wk) Mirwais Ashraf Mohammad Nabi Mohammad Shahzad (wk) Najibullah Zadran Nasim Khan Samiullah Shenwari Shabir Noori Zamir Khan | Tshering Dorji (c) & (wk) Dampo Dorji Thinley Jamtsho Kumar Subba Dorji Loday Bikash Luitel Kencho Norbu (wk) Suprit Pradhan Sonam Tobgay Tashi Tshering Ugyen Dorji Barun Wakhley Tandin Wangchuk Phuntsho Wangdi | Jamie Atkinson (c) & (wk) Aizaz Khan Asif Khan Daljeet Singh Mark Ferguson Babar Hayat Irfan Ahmed Courtney Kruger Roy Lamsam Munir Dar Nadeem Ahmed Nizakat Khan Kinchit Shah Waqas Barkat (wk) | Azmatullah Nazeer (c) Abdullah Akhunzada Adnan Idrees Ali Zaheer Yohan Gedara Haroon Shahid Mohamed Rifkas Mohammad Murad Mohammed Asghar Mohammed Irfan Nabeel Ahmed (wk) Jagath Roshantha (wk) Saud Qamar Yasar Idrees | Suhan Kumar (c) & (wk) Shukri Abdul Rahim Abdul Rashid Hassan Ghulam Suresh Navaratnam Nazril Rahman Nik Arifin Norwira Zazmie Ariffin Ramly Rosman Zakaria (wk) Shahrulnizam Yusof Muthuraman Sockalingam Suharril Fetri Hammad Ullah Khan |
| Maldives | Nepal | Oman | Saudi Arabia | United Arab Emirates |
| Moosa Kaleem (c) Abdullah Shahid Afzal Faiz Ahmed Jamaal Mihusan Hamid Hassan Ibrahim (wk) H Haziq (wk) Husham Ibrahim Ismail Hameed Mohotte Jayakody Jilwaz Rasheed Mohamed Mahfooz Neesham Nasir Shafraz Jaleel | Paras Khadka (c) Pradeep Airee Mehboob Alam Prithu Baskota Binod Bhandari (wk) Amrit Bhattarai Binod Das Subash Khakurel (wk) Gyanendra Malla Anil Mandal Basanta Regmi Sanjam Regmi Sharad Vesawkar Rahul Vishwakarma | Hemal Mehta (c) Aamir Khaleem Qais Khalid Al Said Aamer Ali Arfan Ali Awal Khan Ghazanfar Iqbal Jatinder Singh Ajay Lalcheta Rajeshkumar Ranpura Sultan Ahmed (wk) Vaibhav Wategaonkar Yousuf Mahmood Zeeshan Siddiqui | Kashif Shafiq (c) Babar Hussain (wk) Faheem Afrad Hammad Saeed Hassan Malik Irfan Farooqi Kashif Meher Khawar Sohail Mohammad Abdullah Mohammad Naseem Mohammad Zaheer Rizwan Qayyum Shoaib Ali Waqas Akram | Khurram Khan (c) Abdul Rehman (wk) Ahmed Raza Amjad Ali (wk) Amjad Javed Faizan Asif Irfan Ahmed Rohan Mustafa Nasir Aziz Bakthiyar Palekar Shaiman Anwar Vikrant Shetty Shoaib Sarwar Shadeep Silva |

## Group stage

### Group A

| Team | Pts | Pld | W | L | NRR |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Afghanistan | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | +4.263 |
| Oman | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | +1.750 |
| Malaysia | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | +0.875 |
| Maldives | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | -1.140 |
| Bhutan | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | -6.135 |

### Results

* 3 December 2011 09:30 NPT (Scorecard)

| Afghanistan 166/4 (20 overs) | v | Malaysia 107/9 (20 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Shabir Noori 53 (30) Nik Arifin 3/35 (4 overs) | | Hammad Ullah Khan 31 (26) Mohammad Nabi 3/21 (4 overs) |

* Afghanistan won by 59 runs Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Umpires: Himal Giri (Nepal) and Vinay Kumar (Nepal)
* Afghanistan won the toss & elected to bat
* 3 December 2011 13:00 NPT Scorecard

| Oman 186/7 (20 overs) | v | Bhutan 62 (13.4 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Vaibhav Wategaonkar 45 (34) Sonam Tobgay 3/38 (4 overs) | | Kumar Subba 13 (20) Hemal Mehta 3/11 (2 overs) |

* Oman won by 124 runs Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Umpires: Sanjay Gurung (Nepal) and Basu Karn (Nepal) Player of the match: Zeeshan Siddiqui (Oman)
* Oman won the toss & elected to bat
* 4 December 2011 09:30 NPT Scorecard

| Bhutan 77(18 overs) | v | Maldives 78/1 (12.1 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Tshering Dorji 13 (21) Moosa Kaleem 3/11 (4 overs) | | Moosa Kaleem 48* (41) Thinley Jamtsho 1/18 (2 overs) |

* Maldives won by 9 wickets. Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Umpires: Basu Karn (Nepal) and Durga Subedi (Nepal) Player of the match: Moosa Kaleem (Maldives)
* Maldives won the toss & elected to field
* 4 December 2011 09:30 NPT Scorecard

| Afghanistan 117 (19.3 overs) | v | Oman 77 (19.4 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Mohammad Shahzad 24 (21) Ajay Lalcheta 4/13 (3.3 overs) | | Aamer Ali 19 (20) Hamid Hassan 2/7 (4 overs) |

* Afghanistan won by 40 runs Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Vinay Kumar (Nepal) and Shailendra Nepal (Nepal) Player of the match: Hamid Hassan (Afghanistan)
* Oman won the toss & elected to field
* 5 December 2011 09:30 NPT Scorecard

| Malaysia 147/8 (20 overs) | v | Maldives 128/7 (20 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Hammad Ullah Khan 54 (56) Moosa Kaleem 3/23 (4 overs) | | Moosa Kaleem 47 (43) Shahrulnizam Yusof 2/18 (3 overs) |

* Malaysia won by 19 runs Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (Nepal) and Sanjay Sarda (Thailand) Player of the match: Hammad Ullah Khan (Malaysia)
* Maldives won the toss & elected to field
* 6 December 2011 09:30 NPT Scorecard

| Malaysia 149/9 (20 overs) | v | Oman 151/7 (20 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Hammad Ullah Khan 47 (43) Aamir Khaleem 3/18 (4 overs) | | Ghazanfar Iqbal 33 (28) Shahrulnizam Yusof 2/17 (3 overs) |

* Oman won by 3 wickets Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Umpires: Manjul Bhattarai (Nepal) and Buddhi Pradhan (Nepal) Player of the match: Aamir Khaleem (Oman)
* Malaysia won the toss & elected to bat
* 6 December 2011 13:00 NPT Scorecard

| Afghanistan 225/6 (20 overs) | v | Bhutan 45 (17.4 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Karim Sadiq 72 (42) Phuntsho Wangdi 3/43 (4 overs) | | Tashi Tshering 16 (38) Zamir Khan 2/4 (3.4 overs) |

* Afghanistan won by 180 runs Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Umpires: Manohar Adhikari (Nepal) and Adhip Pradhan (Nepal) Player of the match: Karim Sadiq (Afghanistan)
* Bhutan won the toss & elected to field
* 7 December 2011 09:30 NPT Scorecard

| Afghanistan 157/8 (20 overs) | v | Maldives 95 (20 overs (18.2 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Shabir Noori 76 (50) Ahmed Faiz 3/23 (3 overs) | | Moosa Kaleem 45 (35) Mohammad Nabi 4/10 (4 overs) |

* Afghanistan won by 62 runs Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Umpires: Vinay Kumar (Nepal) and Ram Yadav (Nepal) Player of the match: Shabir Noori (Afghanistan)
* Maldives won the toss & elected to field
* 7 December 2011 13:00 NPT Scorecard

| Bhutan 79 (19.2 overs) | v | Malaysia 191/6 (20 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Kumar Subba 18 (28) Norwira Zazmie 3/14 (4 overs) | | Hammad Ullah Khan 51 (28) Sonam Tobgay 2/41 (4 overs) |

* Malaysia won by 112 runs Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (Nepal) and Raman Shiwakoti (Nepal) Player of the match: Hammad Ullah Khan (Malaysia)
* Malaysia won the toss & elected to bat
* 8 December 2011 09:30 NPT Scorecard

| Maldives 93/4 (20 overs) | v | Oman 147/6 (20 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Moosa Kaleem 55* (59) Ajay Lalcheta 2/18 (3 overs) | | Aamer Ali 47* (32) Mohamed Mahfooz 3/23 (4 overs) |

* Oman won by 54 runs Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Umpires: Vinay Kumar (Nepal) and Raman Shiwakoti (Nepal) Player of the match: Amir Ali (Oman)
* Maldives won the toss & elected to field

### Group B

| Team | Pts | Pld | W | L | NRR |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hong Kong | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | +1.228 |
| Nepal | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | +1.061 |
| United Arab Emirates | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | +0.832 |
| Kuwait | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | -0.054 |
| Saudi Arabia | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | -3.075 |

### Results

* 3 December 2011 09:30 NPT Scorecard

| Nepal 115/8 (20 overs) | v | Hong Kong 114/9 (20 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Paras Khadka 44 (46) Irfan Ahmed 3/25 (4 overs) | | Irfan Ahmed 25 (11) Basanta Regmi 2/14 (4 overs) |

* Nepal won by 2 wickets Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Ashwani Rana (Thailand) and Sanjay Sarda (Thailand) Player of the match: Paras Khadka (Nepal)
* Hong Kong won the toss & elected to bat
* 3 December 2011 13:00 NPT Scorecard

| Kuwait 135 all out (19.5 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 138/6 (18.4 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Mohammad Murad 34 (23) Khurram Khan 3/11 (3.5 overs) | | Vikrant Shetty 45* (32) Mohammad Murad 3/31 (3.4 overs) |

* United Arab Emirates won by 4 wickets Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Shailendra Nepal (Nepal) and Buddhi Pradhan (Nepal) Player of the match: Vikrant Shetty (UAE)
* Kuwait won the toss & elected to bat
* 4 December 2011 09:30 NPT Scorecard

| Kuwait 97/4 (13.3 overs) | v | Saudi Arabia 96 all out (19.2 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Yasar Idrees 37 (22) Khawar Sohail 2/31 (4 overs) | | Rizwan Qayyum 29* (32) Mohammed Asghar 3/8 (3.2 overs) |

* Kuwait won by 6 wickets Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (Nepal) and Ram Yadav (Nepal) Player of the match: Mohammed Asghar (Kuwait)
* Saudi Arabia won the toss & elected to bat
* 4 December 2011 09:30 NPT Scorecard

| Nepal 95/9 (20 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 99/4 (18.3 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Mehboob Alam 17 (12) Ahmed Raza 3/12 (4 overs) | | Shaiman Anwar 33 (33) Amrit Bhattarai 3/25 (4 overs) |

* United Arab Emirates won by 6 wickets Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Ashwani Rana (Thailand) and Sanjay Sarda (Thailand) Player of the match: Ahmed Raza (UAE)
* Nepal won the toss & elected to bat
* 5 December 2011 09:30 NPT Scorecard

| Hong Kong 151/6 (20 overs) | v | Saudi Arabia 107 all out (19.4 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Munir Dar 54* (28) Khawar Sohail 1/18 (4 overs) | | Kashif Shafiq 70 (46) Aizaz Khan 2/17 (3 overs) |

* Hong Kong won by 44 runs Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Umpires: Manohar Adhikari (Nepal) and Manjul Bhattarai (Nepal) Player of the match: Munir Dar (Hong King)
* Hong Kong won the toss & elected to bat
* 6 December 2011 09:30 NPT Scorecard

| Nepal 126/6 (20 overs) | v | Kuwait 125 all out (19.5 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Subash Khakurel 40 (32) Mohammed Asghar 2/17 (4 overs) | | Saud Qamar 39 (42) Prithu Baskota 3/17 (1.5 overs) |

* Nepal won by 1 run Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Ashwani Rana (Thailand) and Sanjay Sarda (Thailand) Player of the match: Prithu Baskota (Nepal)
* Kuwait won the toss & elected to field
* 6 December 2011 13:00 NPT Scorecard

| Hong Kong 145/6 (18 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 144/4 (20 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Irfan Ahmed 70 (42) Munir Dar 1/19 (4 overs) | | Amjad Ali 79* (65) Ahmed Raza 3/20 (4 overs) |

* Hong Kong won by 4 wickets Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Himal Giri (Nepal) and Vinay Kumar (Nepal) Player of the match: Irfan Ahmed (Hong Kong)
* United Arab Emirates won the toss & elected to bat
* 7 December 2011 09:30 NPT Scorecard

| Nepal 183/5 (20 overs) | v | Saudi Arabia 88 all out (19.1 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Mehboob Alam 88 (41) Khawar Sohail 4/27 (4 overs) | | Mohammad Naseem 21 (20) Paras Khadka 3/5 (2.1 overs) |

* Nepal won by 95 runs Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Ashwani Rana (Thailand) and Sanjay Sarda(Thailand) Player of the match: Mehboob Alam (Nepal)
* Saudi Arabia won the toss & elected to field
* 7 December 2011 13:00 NPT Scorecard

| Hong Kong 131/4 (14.5 overs) | v | Kuwait 130/9 (20 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Jamie Atkinson 41* (29) Saud Qamar 1/19 (2 overs) | | Mohammed Asghar 34 (22) Irfan Ahmed 2/13 (4 overs) |

* Hong Kong won by 6 wickets Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Sanjay Gurung (Nepal) and Buddhi Pradhan (Nepal) Player of the match: Munir Dar (Hong Kong)
* Kuwait won the toss & elected to bat
* 8 December 2011 09:30 NPT Scorecard

| Saudi Arabia 115 all out (19.2 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 168/8 (20 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Hammad Saeed 63 (38) Khurram Khan 3/12 (4 overs) | | Vikrant Shetty 63* (35) Rizwan Qayyum 4/28 (4 overs) |

* United Arab Emirates won by 53 runs Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Sanjay Gurung (Nepal) and Durga Subedi (Nepal) Player of the match: Vikrant Shetty (UAE)
* Saudi Arabia won the toss & elected to field

## Semi-finals and Playoffs

### 9th place playoff

* 10 December 2011 Scorecard

| Bhutan 120/9 (18 overs) | v | Saudi Arabia 119/5 (18 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Sonam Tobgay 27 (29) Barun Wakhley 3/22 (4 overs) | | Rizwan Qayyum 34* (42) Hammad Saeed 3/13 (4 overs) |

* Bhutan won by 1 wicket Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Umpires: Adhip Pradhan (Nepal) and Ram Yadav (Nepal) Player of the match: Sonam Tobgay (Bhutan)
* Saudi Arabia won the toss and elected to bat
* Match start delayed due to fog

### 7th place playoff

* 9 December 2011 Scorecard

| Maldives 117 (19.3 overs) | v | Kuwait 199/5 (20 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Moosa Kaleem 27 (29) Haroon Shahid 3/14 (4 overs) | | Saud Qamar 58* (37) Mohamed Mahfooz 1/18 (4 Overs) |

* Kuwait won by 82 runs Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Umpires: Sanjay Gurung (Nepal) and Shailendra Nepal (Nepal) Player of the match: Mohammed Asghar (Kuwait)
* Kuwait won the toss and elected to bat

### 5th place playoff

* 9 December 2011 Scorecard

| Malaysia 104 all out (19.1 overs) | v | United Arab Emirates 106/1 (9.5 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Suresh Navaratnam 56 (46) Khurram Khan 4/8 (4 Overs) | | Amjad Ali 64* (35) Shukri Abdul Rahim 1/30 (3 Overs) |

* United Arab Emirates won by 9 wickets Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur Umpires: Himal Giri (Nepal) and Durga Subedi (Nepal) Player of the match: Khurram Khan (UAE)
* Malaysia won the toss and chose to bat

### Semi-finals

* 9 December 2011 9:15 Scorecard

| Nepal 68/9 (16 overs) | v | Afghanistan 70/1 (9.2 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Paras Khadka 30(29) Dawlat Zadran 4/13 (3 Overs) | | Karim Sadiq 32(26) Basanta Regmi 1/12 (4 Overs) |

* Afghanistan won by 9 wickets Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Ashwani Rana (Thailand) and Sanjay Sarda (Thailand) Player of the match: Dawlat Zadran (Afghanistan)
* Nepal won the toss and elected to bat
* Match start delayed due to fog
* 9 December 2011 12:45 Scorecard

| Oman 142/6 (20 overs) | v | Hong Kong 146/7 (19.3 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Vaibhav Wategaonkar 56* (46) Irfan Ahmed 3/20 (4 overs) | | Munir Dar 76* (46) Hemal Mehta 2/16 (3.3 overs) |

* Hong Kong won by 3 wickets Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Vinay Kumar (Nepal) and Buddhi Pradhan (Nepal) Player of the match: Munir Dar (Hong Kong)
* Oman won the toss and elected to bat

## 3rd place playoff and Final

### 3rd place playoff

* 10 December 2011 Scorecard

| Nepal 99/9 (15 overs) | v | Oman 101/8 (15 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Pradeep Airee 20 (22) Aamir Khaleem 3/11 (3 overs) | | Zeeshan Siddiqui 22 (12) Mehboob Alam 4/22 (3 overs) |

* Oman won by 2 runs Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Ashwani Rana (Thailand) and Sanjay Sarda (Thailand) Player of the match: Aamir Khaleem (Omaan)
* Oman won the toss and elected to bat
* Match start delayed due to fog

### Final

* 11 December 2011 Scorecard

| Afghanistan 125 (20 overs) | v | Hong Kong 117 (20 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Gulbudeen Naib 57 (50) Munir Dar 5/23 (3.5 overs) | | Jamie Atkinson 35 (46) Hamid Hassan 3/12 (4 overs) |

* Afghanistan won by 8 runs Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Umpires: Vinay Kumar (Nepal) and Buddhi Pradhan (Nepal) Player of the match: Hamid Hassan (Afg)
* Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat

## Final standings

| Position | Team | Promotion/Relegation |
| - | - | - |
| 1st | Afghanistan | Promoted to 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier |
| 2nd | Hong Kong | Promoted to 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier |
| 3rd | Oman | Promoted to 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier |
| 4th | Nepal | Promoted to 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier |
| 5th | United Arab Emirates | |
| 6th | Malaysia | |
| 7th | Kuwait | |
| 8th | Maldives | |
| 9th | Bhutan | |
| 10th | Saudi Arabia | |

## Statistics

### Most runs

The top five highest run scorers (total runs) are included in this table.

| Player | Team | Runs | Inns | Avg | S/R | HS | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Moosa Kaleem | Maldives | 222 | 5 | 74.00 | 107.24 | 55* | 0 | 1 | 25 | 9 |
| Munir Dar | Hong Kong | 202 | 6 | 67.33 | 141.25 | 76* | 0 | 2 | 17 | 11 |
| Shabir Noori | Afghanistan | 202 | 6 | 50.50 | 139.31 | 76 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 7 |
| Karim Sadiq | Afghanistan | 191 | 6 | 31.83 | 126.49 | 72 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 4 |
| Hammad Ullah Khan | Malaysia | 183 | 5 | 36.60 | 127.08 | 54 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 2 |

### Most wickets

The following table contains the five leading wicket-takers.

| Player | Team | Wkts | Mts | Ave | S/R | Econ | BBI |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mohammad Nabi | Afghanistan | 13 | 6 | 7.15 | 9.8 | 4.35 | 4/10 |
| Khurram Khan | United Arab Emirates | 12 | 5 | 6.91 | 9.4 | 4.40 | 4/8 |
| Ahmed Raza | United Arab Emirates | 12 | 5 | 7.83 | 10.0 | 4.70 | 3/12 |
| Khawar Sohail | Saudi Arabia | 12 | 5 | 9.08 | 10.0 | 5.45 | 4/27 |
| Irfan Ahmed | Hong Kong | 12 | 6 | 11.66 | 11.5 | 6.08 | 3/20 |
