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ACC
·
On July 5,
2008 Sachin
Tendulkar
was named
the best
Asian ODI
batsman at
the
inaugural
Asian
Cricket
Council
(ACC) awards
ceremony
·
Wicketkeeper-batsman
Kumar
Sangakkara
received
best Asian
Test batsman
award
Muttiah
Muralitharan
and Farveez
Maharoof got
best awards
for Asian
Test and ODI
bowlers
respectively.
Mission
IAS’2009
·
On July 5,
2008 PCB
Chairman
Nasim Ashraf,
took over as
ACC (Asian
Cricket
Council)
President
·
The Asian
Cricket
Council was
formed as
the Asian
Cricket
Conference
in 1983 to
promote and
develop the
game of
cricket
within Asia.
It is the
regional
administrative
body and is
sub-ordinate
to the
International
Cricket
Council.
·
The
Conference
became the
Asian
Cricket
Council in
1995,
and it is
currently
headquartered
in Kuala
Lumpur,
Malaysia.
·
There are
22 members
of the ACC.
·
Membership
in the ACC
is divided
between four
full Test
Status
members,
seven
associate
members, and
eleven
affiliate
members. The
full members
Bangladesh,
India,
Pakistan,
and Sri
Lanka.
·
The
associate
members are
Hong Kong,
Kuwait,
Malaysia,
Nepal,
Singapore,
Thailand,
and United
Arab
Emirates.
·
The
affiliate
members are
Afghanistan,
Bahrain,
Bhutan,
Brunei,
China, Iran,
Maldives,
Myanmar,
Oman, Qatar,
and Saudi
Arabia.
·
Four Asian
nations,
namely
Indonesia,
Japan,
Philippines
and South
Korea are
members of
the East
Asia-Pacific
Cricket
Council
instead of
the ACC,
although
Indonesia
has applied
for
membership
in the ACC. |
