The ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 is scheduled to start on April 12 and run till April 21 in Oman. 

Organised by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), the second edition of ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup will see as many as 10 teams compete in a total of 24 matches. The winner of ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 will qualify for Asia Cup 2025.

These participating teams have been divided into two groups of five teams each.

Group A comprises Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nepal, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The likes of Bahrain, Cambodia, Kuwait, Oman and United Arab Emirates are clubbed in Group B.

Each team will play the other four sides in their group once in a single round-robin format. The top two teams from each group will advance to the semi-finals.

The losers of the two semi-finals will clash in the third-place playoff on April 20.

The ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 final will be held on April 21.

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1) and Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2) are the two venues that will host all the matches in the upcoming T20 tournament.

The ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 will feature the eight highest ranked ACC associate members along with two finalists from ACC Men's Challenger Cup 2024.

Cambodia and Saudi Arabia have qualified for the tournament after finishing as the top two teams in the ACC Men's Challenger Cup 2024.

Nepal won the inaugural edition of the ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup after beating United Arab Emirates by seven wickets in the 2023 final.

Where to watch ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 live in India

Live streaming of the ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 will be available on the FanCode app and website.

There will be no live telecast of the upcoming men’s T20 tournament on any TV channel in India.

ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 schedule and India match start times 

All timings are in India Standard Time (IST)

Day and Date

Match

Venue

Time (IST)

Friday, April 12

Oman vs Bahrain, Match 1, Group B

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat

11:30 AM

Friday, April 12

United Arab Emirates vs Kuwait, Match 2, Group B

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat

11:30 AM

Friday, April 12

Nepal vs Malaysia, Match 3, Group A

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat

4:00 PM

Friday, April 12

Hong Kong vs Qatar, Match 4, Group A

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat

4:00 PM

Saturday, April 13

Kuwait vs Cambodia, Match 5, Group B

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat

11:30 AM

Saturday, April 13

United Arab Emirates vs Bahrain, Match 6, Group B

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat

11:30 AM

Saturday, April 13

Malaysia vs Saudi Arabia, Match 8, Group A

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat

4:00 PM

Saturday, April 13

Nepal vs Qatar, Match 7, Group A

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat

4:00 PM

Sunday, April 14

Oman vs Cambodia, Match 9, Group B

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat

11:30 AM

Sunday, April 14

Hong Kong vs Saudi Arabia, Match 10, Group A

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat

4:00 PM

Monday, April 15

Nepal vs Hong Kong, Match 11, Group A

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat

11:30 AM

Monday, April 15

Malaysia vs Qatar, Match 12, Group A

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat

11:30 AM

Monday, April 15

United Arab Emirates vs Oman, Match 13, Group B

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat

4:00 PM

Monday, April 15

Kuwait vs Bahrain, Match 14, Group B

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat

4:00 PM

Tuesday, April 16

Qatar vs Saudi Arabia, Match 15, Group A

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat

11:30 AM

Tuesday, April 16

Bahrain vs Cambodia, Match 16, Group B

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat

4:00 PM

Wednesday, April 17

Hong Kong vs Malaysia, Match 17, Group A

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat

11:30 AM

Wednesday, April 17

Nepal vs Saudi Arabia, Match 18, Group A

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat

11:30 AM

Wednesday, April 17

United Arab Emirates vs Cambodia, Match 19, Group B

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat

4:00 PM

Wednesday, April 17

Oman vs Kuwait, Match 20, Group B

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 2), Al Amerat

4:00 PM

Friday, April 19

Semi-final 1

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat

11:30 AM

Friday, April 19

Semi-final 2

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat

4:00 PM

Saturday, April 20

Third-place Playoff

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat

4:00 PM

Sunday, April 21

ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 final

Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1), Al Amerat

4:00 PM

ACC Men’s T20I Premier Cup 2024 teams and squads

Bahrain: Haider Butt (captain), Sohail Ahmed, Junaid Niazi, Ahmer Bin Nasir, Imran Ali, Umer Toor (wicketkeeper), Ubaid Minhas, Imran Anwar, Sarfaraz Ali, Sathaiya Veerapathiran, Abdul Majid, Ali Dawood, Majid Malik, Muhammad Rizwan Butt

Cambodia: Luqman Butt (captain), Anish Rambabu, Etienne Beukes, Lakshit Gupta, Phon Bunthean, Salvin Stanly, Te Senglong, Uday Sing Hathinjar (wicketkeeper), Ram Raushan Sharan, Sharwan Godara, Kottagodage Don, Vimukthi Viraj, Pel Vannak, Chanthoeun Rathanak, Gulam Murtaza Chughtai, Utkarsh Jain

Hong Kong: Nizakhat Khan (captain), Adit Gorawara (wicketkeeper), Ashuman Rath, Babar Hayat, Martin Coetzee, Zeeshan Ali (wicketkeeper), Aizaz Khan, Nasrulla Rana, Yasim Murtaza, Ehsan Khan, Ateeq Iqbal, Ayush Shukla, Dhananjay Rao, Raunaq Kapur

Kuwait: Mohammed Aslam (captain), Ali Zaheer, Bilal Tahir, Clinto Anto, Muhammad Umar, Raveja, Meet Bhavsar (wicketkeeper), Usman Ghani (wicketkeeper), Parvinder Kumar, Adnan Idrees, Mohammad Aslam (captain), Nawaf Ahmed, Nimish Lathif, Shiraz Khan, Yasin Patel, Illyas Ahmed, Mohamed Shafeeq, Sayed Monib, Shahrukh Quddus

Malaysia: Ahmad Faiz, Ainool Hafizs, Muhammad Amir, Ahmad Zubaidi, Syed Aziz (wicketkeeper), Wan Muhammad (wicketkeeper), Ahmed Aqeel Wahid, Ahmed Aqeel, Nazmus Sakib, Virandeep Singh, Sharvin Muniandy, Mohammad Haziq Aiman, Muhammad Wafiq, Pavandeep Singh, Vijay Unni, Syazrul Idrus, Fitri Sham, Khizar Hayat Durrani, Rizwan Haider

Nepal: Rohit Paudel (captain), Aarif Sheikh, Kushal Bhurtel, Sundeep Jora, Aasif Sheikh (wicketkeeper), Anil Shah (wicketkeeper), Binod Bhandari (wicketkeeper), Bibek Yadav, Dipendra Singh Airee, Kushal Malla, Sompal Kami, Akash Chandra, Abhinash Bohara, Gulsan Jha, KC Karan, Lalit Rajbanshi, Pratish GC, Sagar Dhakal

Oman: Zeeshan Maqsood (captain), Ayan Khan, Kashyapkumar Prajapati, Khalid Kail, Naseem Khushi (wicketkeeper), Pratik Athavale (wicketkeeper), Aaqib Ilyas, Mehran Khan, Mohammad Nadeem, Rafiullah, Bilal Khan, Fayaz Butt, Kaleemullah, Shakeel Ahmad

Qatar: Muhammad Tanveer (captain), Kamran Khan, Mohammad Ahnaff, Rifayi Hassainar, Saqlain Arshad, Shahzaib Ahmed, Adnan Mirza, Amir Farooq, Mohammed Irshad, Gayan Buddika, Himanshu Rathod, Muhammad Jabir, Musawar Shah, Muhammad Ikramullah

Saudi Arabia: Hisham Shaikh (captain), Abdul Waheed, Faisal Khan, Kashif Abbas, Manan Ali (wicketkeeper), Saad Khan (wicketkeeper), Varun Mudaliar, Waji Ul Hassan, Ali Delawar Khan, Muhammad Ahmad Raza, Usman Khalid, Zain Ul Abidin, Atif-Ur-Rehman, Ishtiaq Ahmad, Saud Syed Ahmad, Usman Najeeb, Usman Ali

United Arab Emirates: Waseem Muhammad (captain), Alishan Sharafu, Asif Khan, Vishnu Sukumaran, Syed Haider, Tanish Suri (wicketkeeper), Aayan Khan, Ali Naseer, Balil Hameed, Farooq Momand, Akif Raja, Junayed Siddiqi, Omid Rahman, Rahul Bhatia

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