Asian Cricket Council

Asian Cricket Council
Asian Cricket Council
Formation	1983
Headquarters	Selangor in Malaysia
Membership	22 countries
ACC President	Mr. Mustafa Kamal, MP
Website	Asian Cricket Council

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Map of the current Asian Cricket Council (ACC) members. Members with Test status are coloured red, members with associate memember status of the ICC are coloured orange and affiliate members are coloured blue. Asian members of the ICC not belonged to the ACC are coloured pink (EAP) and yellow (ECC)

The Asian Cricket Council is a cricket organization which was established in 1983, to promote and develop the sport of cricket in Asia. It is the regional administrative body and is sub-ordinate to the International Cricket Council. The Conference became the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) in 1995 and its current headquarters are in Malaysia. There are 22 members of the Asian Cricket Council and its current president is AHM Mustafa Kamal from Bangladesh.

Membership in the Asian Cricket Council is divided between four Test Status members, seven associate members and eleven affiliate members. The official members are 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 countries, namely Indonesia, Japan, Philippines and South Korea are members of ICC East Asia-Pacific instead of the Asian Cricket Council, although Indonesia has applied for membership in the Asian Cricket Council.

The Asian Cricket Council runs a development program that supports coaching, umpiring and sports medicine programs in member countries. The Asian Cricket Council funds this program from television revenues collected during the officially sanctioned Asian Cricket Council tournaments including the Asia Cup, Asian Test Championship, ACC Trophy and Asian Cricket Junior Tournaments.