Hong Kong bow out

UAE became firm favourites to clinch the ACC Trophy after the team considered to be their main competitor, Hong Kong, were eliminated in the preliminary stage itself. In their last match in Group C, Hong Kong suffered a 11-run defeat at the hands of Oman. The surprise contenders in the quaterfinals were Afghanistan, who got through on bonus points. Hong Kong have a month to recover from this debacle before their Asia Cup campaign in Sri Lanka - a tournament they got into after finishing second in the 2000 edition of the ACC Trophy.

The quarterfinal match-ups are: Afghanistan v Kuwait, UAE v Malaysia, Oman v Bhutan, and Nepal v Qatar.

The competition features the 16 leading Asian non Test-playing countries. They are split into four groups of four, with the top two in each group progressing to the quarter-finals. The final takes place on June 22.

Day 6 - June 17

Group A
UAE 80 for 0 beat Thailand 78 by 10 wickets

Group B
Malaysia 268 for 7 beat Saudi Arabia 203 by 65 runs

Group C
Oman 185 beat Hong Kong 174 by 11 runs

Day 5 - June 16

Group A
Singapore 107 lost to Qatar 108 for 3 (Omar Taj 68) by 7 wickets

Group B
Maldives 163 lost to Kuwait 164 for 2 (Sibtain Raza 86) by 8 wickets

Group C
Bahrain 172 lost to Afghanistan 173 for 2 (Karim Khan 100, Naw Ros 60) by 8 wickets

Day 3 - June 14

Group A
Singapore 275 for 4 (Joshua Dearing 100*, Suneth Mendis 54) beat Thailand 170 by 105 runs

Group B
Saudi Arabia 262 (Sarfraz Ahmad 75 Naeem Amin 54) beat Maldives 170 (Ibrahim Hussain 51) by 92 runs

Group C
Bahrain 216 lost to Oman 217 for 6 (Syed Azhar Ali 68*) by 4 wickets

Group D
Iran 29 (Mehboob Alam 5-10) lost to Nepal 30 for 0 by 10 wickets

Day 2 - June 13

Group A
Thailand 103 (Zeeshan Khan 29 lost to Qatar 104 for 0 (Omer Taj 58*, Jehangir 42*) by 10 wickets

Group B
Kuwait 228 beat Saudi Arabia 176 by 52 runs

Group C
Afghanistan 202 (Nowros Khan Mangal 101, Henin Desai 6-43) lost to Oman 204 for 6 (Henin Desai 82, Nabi Esakhail 3-28) by 4 wickets

Group D
Bhutan 187 (Thinley Wangchuk 48, Phuntsho Wangdi 18) beat Iran 101 (Mirza Ghasem 37) by 86 runs

Day 1 - June 12

Group A
UAE 302 for 8 (Arshad Ali 128*, Asim Aseed 70, Khurram Khan 58) beat Singapore 69 (Iftikar Haider 16) by 233 runs

Group B
Malaysia 219 for 8 (Suresh Navratnam 81*, Sarath Jayawardhana 46) beat Maldives 199 (Ismail Nihad 50, Ahmed Afzal 43) by 20 runs

Group C
Bahrain 212 for 7 (Qamar Saeed 79, Asghar Majeed 56, Sher Lama 3-49) beat Hong Kong 188 (Rahul Sharma 62, Manoj Cheruparambil 50, Asghar Majeed 2-37, Zafar Zaheer 2-33, Qamar Saeed 2-47) by 24 runs

Group D
Bhutan 91 (Damber Chhetri 31, Raj Kumar Pradhan 3-13, Sanjam Regmi 2-13, Mehboob Alam 2-26) lost to Nepal 92 for 1 (Mehboob Alam 44*, Paresh Lohani 30) by 9 wickets