The 1998 ACC Trophy was a
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...
tournament in
Nepal
Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne,
सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...
, taking place from 3 October to 13 October 1998. It gave Associate and Affiliate members of the
Asian Cricket Council
The Asian Cricket Council also known as ACC is a cricket organisation which was established in 1983, to promote and develop the sport of cricket in Asia. Subordinate to the International Cricket Council, the council is the continent's regional ...
experience of international
one-day cricket and also helped form an essential part of regional rankings. The tournament was won by
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million pe ...
who defeated
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
in the final by 8 wickets. This would be Bangladesh's final ACC Trophy title prior to their elevation to
Test status in 2000.
Teams
The teams were separated into two groups of five. The following teams took part in the tournament:
Group stages
The top two from each group qualified for the semi-finals.
Group A
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Group B
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Semi-finals
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Final
Statistics
References
External links
CricketArchive tournament page
{{DEFAULTSORT:ACC Trophy, 1998
1998 in Nepalese sport
International cricket competitions from 1997–98 to 2000
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...
International cricket competitions in Nepal