ACC Premier Cup 2024 is starting from April 12, 2024 in Oman. This tournament is very important for Nepal national cricket team because of 2 things. One is the preparation for the upcoming ICC T-20 World Cup in June and the other is the chance to qualify for the 2025 Asia Cup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Nepalese team has now reached Oman for the tournament. Nepal national cricket team went to India’s Gujarat to play a friendly T20 series with the two provincial teams of India, Gujarat and Baroda, and from there they went to Oman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Exactly one year ago, Nepal played Asia Cup after winning the ACC Premier Cup held in Kathmandu, Nepal. The senior teams of all the five Test nations of Asia and the winner of the ACC Premier Cup compete in the Asia Cup. If Nepal wins this year’s ACC premier Cup Nepal will get a chance again to play with India and Pakistan. Nepal is under pressure to win the title in the ACC Premier Cup to repeat that opportunity once again. Nepal is considered a strong contender for the tournament as it is the defending champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
10 associate teams from Asia are competing in the upcoming tournament.
The top 8 Asian associate teams Nepal, UAE, Hong Kong, Oman, Malaysia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar and the top two teams of the ACC Men’s Challenge Cup Saudi Arabia and Cambodia are going to compete . <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the first stage of the competition, there are two groups of 5\/5 teams. This time, the other teams in the group in which Nepal is present are somewhat weaker than Nepal. Nepal is in Group B with Hong Kong, Malaysia, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Group A also includes Bahrain, Cambodia, Kuwait, Oman and UAE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the round robin, the top two teams in the group will qualify for the semi-finals. In the final four, the winner of Group ‘A’ will compete against the runner-up of Group ‘B’ and the runner-up of Group ‘A’ will compete against the winner of Group ‘B’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The winner of the tournament will qualify directly for the 2025 Asia Cup. In the first match under the tournament, Nepal will play against Malaysia on April 12. Similarly, they will play against Qatar on April 13, Hong Kong China on April 15 and Saudi Arabia on April 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the last edition held in Nepal, Nepal secured a place in the Asia Cup after winning by 7 wickets against UAE in the title clash. Last time the tournament was held in one-day format, this time it will be organized in T-20 format. As the upcoming Asia Cup is going to be organized in T20 format, As Nepal will play T20 World Cup right after the ACC Premier Cup, there is an opportunity for Nepal to strengthen the confidence of the team by performing well in this tournament. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nepal is playing against South Africa, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Netherlands in the group stage of the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Busy Schedule for Team Nepal <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nepal national cricket team has been very busy for the past few months. Nepal played the first series of the World Cup League-2 against Namibia and the Netherlands at home, after which they also played a one-day international series against Canada. Nepal team, which swept the series with Canada, won only one game out of four in the World Cup League-2 series. After that, the tri-nation T-20 international series was also played with all the three teams. At that time, Nepal reached the final but was defeated by the Netherlands in the title match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After that they played T20 and OD series with Ireland ‘A’, won all the matches and went to Gujarat, India to play a series consisting of two provincial teams of India, Gujarat and Baroda. Nepal won the SMS Friendship Cup by defeating Gujarat by 4 wickets in the final on Sunday<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nepal Squad<\/strong> ACC Premier Cup 2024 is starting from April 12, 2024 in Oman. This tournament is very important for Nepal national cricket team because of 2 things. One is the preparation for the upcoming ICC T-20 World Cup in June and the other is the chance to qualify for the 2025 Asia Cup. The Nepalese team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":12859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[466,449],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13393"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13401,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393\/revisions\/13401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13393"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=13393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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