Recently, India A clinched the inaugural Women’s T20 Emerging Teams Asia Cup, and now the men’s A team is all set to compete in the men’s tournament. Sri Lanka is going to host the 5th edition of ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup. This will be played in the ODI format and a total of 8 teams will take part in it. The tournament is commencing on July 13 and will see a total of 15 games till July 23. In this space, you can find out ACC Men’s Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2023 Schedule, Squads and other key information.
Emerging Teams Asia Cup Groups
The 5 Asian Test-playing nations, Oman and UAE will field their A teams while Nepal will play with their full-fledged team. The teams are divided into two groups of 4 teams each.
Group A: Sri Lanka A, Bangladesh A, Afghanistan A, Oman A
Group B: India A, Pakistan A, UAE A, Nepal
Men’s Emerging Asia Cup 2023 Squads
Afghanistan A Squad: Shahidullah Kamal (c), Ikram Alikhil (wk), Ishaq Rahimi (wk), Riaz Hassan, Ihsanullah Janat, Noor Ali Zadran, Zubaid Akbari, Bahir Shah, Allah Noor, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Izharulhaq Naveed, Wafadar Momand, Mohammad Ibrahim, Mohammad Saleem, Zia-ur-Rehman, Bilal Sami.
Bangladesh A Squad: Saif Hassan (c), Zakir Hasan (vc, wk), Parvez Hossain Emon (wk), Soumya Sarkar, Mahedi Hasan, Rakibul Hasan, Mrittunjoy Chowdhury, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Ripon Mondol, Musfik Hasan, Akbar Ali (wk), Naim Sheikh, Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Shahadat Hossain, Tanzid Hasan Tamim.
Pakistan A Squad: Mohammad Haris (c, wk), Omair Yousuf (vc), Amad Butt, Arshad Iqbal, Haseebullah Khan, Kamran Ghulam, Mehran Mumtaz, Mubasir Khan, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Qasim Akram, Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Shahnawaz Dahani, Sufiyan Muqeem, Tayyab Tahir.
India A Squad: Yash Dhull (C), Abhishek Sharma (VC), Riyan Parag, Sai Sudharsan, Nikin Jose, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Nishant Sindhu, Prabhsimran Singh, Dhruv Jurel, Manav Suthar, Yuvrajsinh Dodiya, Harshit Rana, Akash Singh, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Hangargekar.
Sri Lanka A Squad: Yet to be announced.
Oman Squad: Yet to be announced.
Nepal Squad: Yet to be announced.
UAE Squad: Yet to be announced.
ACC Men’s Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2023 Schedule
During the group stage, each team will play 3 games, and the teams which will end the group stage in the top two will advance to the semi-finals. The start date of the Men’s Emerging Asia Cup is July 13 and the tournament will be concluded on 23rd of the same month.
Match | Date | Time | Group |
Sri Lanka A vs Bangladesh A | 13 July | 10:00 AM | Group A |
Afghanistan A vs Oman A | 13 July | 10:00 AM | Group A |
India A vs UAE A | 14 July | 10:00 AM | Group B |
Pakistan A vs Nepal | 14 July | 10:00 AM | Group B |
Bangladesh A vs Oman A | 15 July | 10:00 AM | Group A |
Sri Lanka A vs Afghanistan A | 15 July | 10:00 AM | Group A |
Pakistan A vs UAE A | 17 July | 10:00 AM | Group B |
India A vs Nepal | 17 July | 02:00 PM | Group B |
Bangladesh A vs Afghanistan A | 18 July | 10:00 AM | Group A |
Sri Lanka A vs Oman A | 18 July | 02:00 PM | Group A |
Nepal vs UAE A | 18 July | 10:00 AM | Group B |
India A vs Pakistan A | 19 July | 02:00 PM | Group B |
Semi-final 1 | 21 July | 10:00 AM | – |
Semi-final 2 | 21 July | 02:00 PM | – |
Final | 23 July | 02:00 PM | – |