The Asian Cricket Council also known as ACC is a

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organisation which was established in 1983, to promote and develop the sport of cricket in Asia. Subordinate to the

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, the council is the continent's regional administrative body, and currently consists of 26 member associations.

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is the current president of Asian Cricket Council.

History

The council was formed as the Asian Cricket Conference in New Delhi,

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, on 19 September 1983, with the original members being Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, and Sri Lanka. Changing its name to the present in 1995. Until 2003, the headquarters of the council were rotated biennially amongst the presidents' and secretaries' home countries. The organisation's current president is

, who is also the Secretary of the

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. The council runs a development program that supports coaching, umpiring and

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programs in member countries, funded from television revenues collected during the officially sanctioned Asian Cricket Council tournaments including the Asia Cup,

Asian Test Championship The ACC Asian Test Championship was a professional Test cricket tournament contested between the Test playing nations of Asia: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It is not a regular event in the cricketing calendar and has so far been held ...

ACC Trophy The ACC Trophy was a limited-overs cricket tournament organised by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC). Open only to associate and affiliate members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), it was contested biennially between 1996 and 2012, but ha ...

, and various other tournaments. The current ACC headquartered in

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, which was officially opened on 20 August 2016.

Members

ACC member associations are divided into two categories: full and associate members . Full members of the ICC are accorded "Full Member Status", whilst associate members of the ICC and ICC non-members (Cambodia and Taiwan as of 2021) are accorded "Associate Member Status". Fiji, Japan, and Papua New Guinea were formerly members of the ACC, but joined the East Asia–Pacific regional council when it was established in 1996.The Formation of the ACC
– Asian Cricket Council. Retrieved 9 July 2012.

Full members

Associate Members with ODI and T20I status

Associate Members with T20I status

Note

* Mongolia has been admitted as an ICC Member as of 18 July 2021, but yet to get membership of any regional body. However, being an Asian country, it is expected to join ACC.

Non-ICC members

Former members that joined East Asia-Pacific

Former members

Map

International Cricket Council members - Asia

Officials

Executive Board members

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ACC Executive Committee

Development team

Development Committee

Resource staff (Umpiring)

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Mahboob Shah Syed Mahboob Ali Shah (born 13 October 1938) is a former Pakistani first-class cricketer and Test cricket umpire. Mahboob Shah was born in Delhi. Before becoming an umpire, he played in 14 first-class matches for Baluchistan, Central Zone, Ka ...

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Past presidents

Tournaments

* Asia Cup *

Women's Asia Cup The Asian Cricket Council Women's Asia Cup or ACC Women's Asia Cup is a women's One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket tournament. It was established in 2004 and is a biennial tournament. The tournament is contested by crick ...

* Under-19 Asia Cup *

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Asia XI team

ACC Asia XI was a team named for the 2005

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, a one-off match designed to raise funds for charities following the

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake An earthquake and a tsunami, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami and, by the scientific community, the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, occurred at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7) on 26 December 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Suma ...

and resulting tsunami. It also competes in a regular Afro-Asia Cup against an Africa XI which was designed as a fund-raiser for the

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and the Asian Cricket Council. The Afro-Asian Cup debuted in 2005 and the second tournament was played in 2007.

References

External links

* {{International cricket Cricket administration Cricket in Asia Sports governing bodies in Asia Sports organizations established in 1983