All you need to know about 2022 Asia Cup qualifying tournament

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 The 2022 Asia Cup qualifying tournament is about to start on 20th August to be played in Muscat, Oman. Four teams will take part including Hong Kong, Kuwait, Singapore, and United Arab Emirates. The winner of this qualifying tournament would be grouped with Pakistan and India in Group A of the main round starting on 27th August 2022.

Due to Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates reaching the finals Western Region Group also advanced to the Asia Cup qualifying tournament. Singapore and Hong Kong progressed as the top two teams from the Eastern Region Group thus joining Kuwait and UAE in the Asia Cup qualifiers.

Each team will play the other team once and the team with the most points will qualify as the third team along with India and Pakistan in Group A of the main round.

Here we look at the teams announced

Hong Kong

Nizakat Khan (C), Kinchit Shah (VC), Zeeshan Ali, Babar Hayat, Haroon Arshad, Aftab Hussain, Ateeq Iqbal, Aizaz Khan, Ehsan Khan, Scott McKechnie (WK), Yasim Murtuza, Ghazanfar Mohammad, Dhananjay Rao, Wajid Shah, Ayush Shukla, Ahan Trivedi, Mohammad Waheed

Kuwait

Mohammed Aslam (C), Nawaf Ahmed, Mohammad Amin, Meet Bhavsar (WK), Adnan Idrees, Muhammad Kashif, Shiraz Khan, Sayed Monib, Usman Patel, Yasin Patel, Shahrukh Quddus, Ravija Sandaruwan, Mohammed Shafeeq, Haroon Shaheed, Edson Silva, Bilal Tahir, Ali Zaheer. 

Singapore

Janak Prakash, Aman Desai, Aryaman Sunil, Rohan Rangarajan, Amjad Mahboob (C), Manpreet Singh (WK), Aritra Dutta, Reeza Gaznavi, Anantha Krishna, Arjun Mutreja, Vinoth Baskaran, Surendran Chandramohan, Navin Param, Neil Karnak, Vikas Puri.

United Arab Emirates

Ahmed Raza (C), Chirag Suri, Muhammed Wasim, CP Rizwaan, Vriitya Arvind, Asif Khan, Basil Hameed, Rohan Mustafa, Kashif Daud, Zahoor Khan, Junaid Siddique, Alishan Sharafu, Akif Raja, Aryna Lakra.

Schedule of the Asia Cup qualifying tournament 2022
1. Hong Kong versus Singapore (Al Amreat Cricket Ground, Oman)- 20th August
2. Kuwait versus UAE ( Al Amreat Cricket Ground, Oman)- 21st August
3. Singapore versus UAE (Al Amreat Cricket Ground, Oman )- 22nd August
4. Hong Kong versus Kuwait (Al Amreat Cricket Ground, Oman )- 23rd August
5. Kuwait versus Singapore (Al Amreat Cricket Ground, Oman )- 24th August
6. Hong Kong versus UAE (Al Amreat Cricket Ground, Oman )- 24th August



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