Pepsi 2nd ACC Trophy from today (3 October 1998)
Holders Bangladesh will begin their campaign of retaining the title when they take on Papua New Guinea (PNG) in their opening first round 'Group A' match of the Pepsi Second ACC trophy at the Tribhuvan University ground in Kathmandu, Nepal, this
03-Oct-1998
3 October 1998
Pepsi 2nd ACC Trophy from today
Sports Reporter
Aminul's army all set
Holders Bangladesh will begin their campaign of retaining the title
when they take on Papua New Guinea (PNG) in their opening first round
'Group A' match of the Pepsi Second ACC trophy at the Tribhuvan
University ground in Kathmandu, Nepal, this morning.
Ten teams, split into two groups for the first round, are taking part
in the 10-day meet, which is also the qualifying tournament for the
Asia Cup. The winners at Nepal will join World champions Sri Lanka,
India and Pakistan in the 1999 Asia Cup to be held in Dhaka next
march.
Bangladesh will meet Malaysia on October 5. The other two group
matches against Singapore and Maldives will be held on October 7 and
8.
Bangladesh has met PNG before. Bangladesh was beaten by PNG by three
wickets in their first meeting, which was a play-off match for the
third place in the second ICC Trophy way back in 1982. Bangladesh
took a sweet revenge of that defeat after 14 years when they handed
PNG a huge seven-wicket defeat in the first ACC trophy semi-final in
Malaysia two years back. Bangladesh eventually emerged unbeaten
champions defeating United Arab Emirates by 108 runs in the final.
Meanwhile, four members of the 18-member Bangladesh who could not
avail the flight on September 30 because of the paucity of seats,
joined the main body in Kathmandu yesterday. They are - manager
Enayet Hossain Siraj, Assistant coach Sarwar Imran and two
cricketers - Sajjad Ahmed and Mushfiqur Rahman.
Source:: The Bangladesh Daily Star (https://www.dailystarnews.com)