Singapore has won the ACC Eastern Region T20 2020 tournament held in Bangkok, Thailand from 29th February to 6th March 2020. Under the captaincy of Amjad Mahboob, Singapore beat Thailand in the opening day of the tournament and then comprehensively beat Malaysia by 128 runs on Day 3, thanks to an unbeaten 92 from just 32 balls from Timothy David. We beat Hongkong in the penultimate match by 16 runs and secured a spot in the Asian Cup Qualifier to be held in Malaysia in August 2020. Our final game against Nepal was abandoned and ensured that we finished first in the table. There were some great individuals performances throughout the tournament from Siddhant Singh who finished as the top run-scorer of the tournament with 153 runs and Anantha Krishna who finished with 8 wickets, who is a joint top wicket-taker of the tournament along with Aftab Hussain from Hong Kong.
Hong Kong also booked their spot in the Asia Cup Qualifier when they beat Malaysia today, finishing the tournament in the second position.
Earlier UAE and Kuwait reached the finals of 2020 ACC Western Region T20 (held from 23 to 27 February 2020 in Muscat, Oman) and they will join Singapore and Hong Kong in Asia Cup Qualifier in August 2020.
