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The Asia Cup 2022 qualifiers will get underway on August 20 (Saturday) with four teams battling it out for an elusive place in the final tournament. Singapore (winner of Eastern region), Hong Kong (runner-up of Eastern region), UAE (winner of Western region) and Kuwait (runner-up of Eastern region) will compete across five days in a four-team competition.
The winner of the qualifying tournament will join India and Pakistan in Group A while Group B consists of Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
The main tournament will get underway on August 27 with the marquee final scheduled to be played on September 11. The Men in Blue are the defending champions as they defeated Bangladesh in the 2018 edition to claim their seventh Asia Cup crown.
The four teams in the qualifiers will face each other in a round-robin format and the team that tops the table after the completion of all matches will qualify for the main tournament.
All the qualifying matches will be played at the Al Amerat Cricket Ground in Muscat, Oman.
Here's the full schedule of Asia Cup 2022 qualifiers:
August 20 - Singapore vs Hong Kong
August 21 - United Arab Emirates vs Kuwait
August 22 - United Arab Emirates vs Singapore
August 23 - Kuwait vs Hong Kong
August 24 - Singapore vs Kuwait
August 24 - Hong Kong vs United Arab Emirates
Squads:
Hong Kong: Nizakat Khan (c), Kinchit Shah, Zeeshan Ali, Haroon Arshad, Babar Hayat, Aftab Hussain, Ateeq Iqbal, Aizaz Khan, Ehsan Khan, Scott McKechnie, Ghazanfar Mohammad, Yasim Murtaza, Dhananjay Rao, Wajid Shah, Ayush Shukla, Ahan Trivedi, Mohammad Waheed
Kuwait: Mohammed Aslam (c), Nawaf Ahmed, Mohammad Amin, Meet Bhavsar, Adnan Idrees, Muhammad Kashif, Shiraz Khan, Sayed Monib, Usman Patel, Yasin Patel, Shahrukh Quddus, Ravija Sandaruwan, Mohamed Shafeeq, Haroon Shahid, Edson Silva, Bilal Tahir, Ali Zaheer
Singapore: Squad yet to be named
UAE: Squad yet to be named
