2019 Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup

The 2019 Women's East Asia Cup was a Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) cricket tournament, which was held in South Korea in September 2019.[1][2][3] All of the matches were played at the Yeonhui Cricket Ground in Incheon, where a round-robin series was followed by a final and a third-place play-off.[2]

2019 Women's East Asia Cup
Dates19 – 22 September 2019
Administrator(s)Korea Cricket Association
Cricket formatTwenty20 International
Host(s) South Korea
Champions China (2nd title)
Runners-up Hong Kong
Participants4
Matches8
Most runsJapan Shizuka Miyaji (92)
Most wicketsHong Kong Kary Chan (14)
2017
2022

The Twenty20 East Asia Cup is an annual competition featuring China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea that was first played in 2015 and alternates annually between a men's and women's event.[4] The women's event was won by China in 2015 and by Hong Kong in 2017.[5][6] The men's events in 2016 and 2018 (both featuring the Hong Kong Dragons – a side representing Hong Kong's Chinese community – instead of their senior national team) had been won by South Korea and Japan, respectively.[7][8] The 2019 edition was the first to be granted official T20I status after the International Cricket Council (ICC) had granted T20I status to matches between all of its members from 1 July 2018 (women's teams) and 1 January 2019 (men's teams).[9]

China defeated Hong Kong in the final by 14 runs to claim the title. Chinese batter Sun Meng Yao contributed nearly half of her team's runs with an innings of 49*.[10]

Squads

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  China   Hong Kong[2]   Japan[3]   South Korea
  • Huang Zhuo (c)
  • Zhang Chan
  • Li Haoye
  • Liu Jie
  • Wu Juan
  • Han Lili
  • Zhang Mei
  • Zi Mei
  • Wang Meng
  • Fengfeng Song
  • Zhang Xiangxue
  • Chen Xinyu
  • Sun Meng Yao
  • Caiyun Zhou
  • Mai Yanagida (c)
  • Rio Endo
  • Kiyo Fujikawa
  • Ayaka Kanada
  • Ruan Kanai
  • Miho Kanno
  • Akari Kano
  • Akari Kitayama
  • Shizuka Miyaji
  • Kasumi Nanno
  • Erika Oda
  • Madoka Shiraishi
  • Kotone Taniguchi
  • Nao Tokizawa
  • Seungmin Song (c)
  • Mina Baek
  • Seri Chang
  • Kang Choi
  • Seohee Kim
  • Sinae Kim
  • Su Jin Kim
  • Haliam Kwon
  • Hee Jung Lee
  • Hyejin Park
  • Jiyeon Park
  • Jiyeon Park Jr.

Round-robin

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Points table

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Team[11] P W L T NR Pts NRR Status
  China 3 2 1 0 0 4 +1.768 Advanced to the final
  Hong Kong 3 2 1 0 0 4 +0.559
  Japan 3 2 1 0 0 4 –0.140 Advanced to the 3rd place play-off
  South Korea (H) 3 0 3 0 0 0 –2.167

Matches

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19 September 2019
09:30
Scorecard
Japan  
97/7 (20 overs)
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  South Korea
85/7 (20 overs)
Ayaka Kanada 29* (35)
Hyejin Park 2/14 (2 overs)
Mina Baek 28* (46)
Mai Yanagida 2/11 (4 overs)
Japan won by 12 runs
Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon
Umpires: Shahid Gill (Kor) and Ryu Roni (Kor)
Player of the match: Shizuka Miyaji (Jpn)
  • South Korea won the toss and elected to field.
  • Kiyo Fujikawa (Jpn) made her WT20I debut.

19 September 2019
14:00
Scorecard
Hong Kong  
84/5 (20 overs)
v
  China
79 (19.3 overs)
Yasmin Daswani 20 (37)
Li Haoye 1/17 (4 overs)
Huang Zhou 21 (36)
Kary Chan 5/7 (3.3 overs)
Hong Kong won by 5 runs
Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon
Umpires: Shahid Gill (Kor) and Ryu Roni (Kor)
Player of the match: Kary Chan (HK)

20 September 2019
09:30
Scorecard
Hong Kong  
91 (19.5 overs)
v
  Japan
92/8 (18.5 overs)
Ruchitha Venkatesh 25 (40)
Miho Kanno 2/14 (4 overs)
Nao Tokizawa 22 (34)
Kary Chan 3/7 (3 overs)
Japan won by 2 wickets
Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon
Umpires: Shahid Gill (Kor) and Ryu Roni (Kor)
Player of the match: Nao Tokizawa (Jpn)
  • Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field.

20 September 2019
14:00
Scorecard
China  
132/6 (20 overs)
v
  South Korea
51 (19.5 overs)
Zhang Mei 35 (42)
Mina Baek 2/21 (4 overs)
Kang Choi 14 (32)
Fengfeng Song 4/7 (2.5 overs)
China won by 81 runs
Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon
Umpires: Shahid Gill (Kor) and Ryu Roni (Kor)
Player of the match: Fengfeng Song (Chn)
  • South Korea won the toss and elected to field.

21 September 2019
09:30
Scorecard
Hong Kong  
120/5 (20 overs)
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  South Korea
83/6 (20 overs)
Mariko Hill 43* (34)
Seungmin Song 1/10 (4 overs)
Sinae Kim 25 (60)
Ruchitha Venkatesh 2/18 (4 overs)
Hong Kong won by 37 runs
Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon
Umpires: Shahid Gill (Kor) and Ryu Roni (Kor)
Player of the match: Mariko Hill (HK)
  • South Korea won the toss and elected to field.

21 September 2019
14:00
Scorecard
Japan  
67 (19.3 overs)
v
  China
68/5 (14.2 overs)
Nao Tokizawa 28 (34)
Wu Juan 3/5 (4 overs)
Caiyun Zhou 18 (22)
Mai Yanagida 2/14 (4 overs)
China won by 5 wickets
Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon
Umpires: Shahid Gill (Kor) and Ryu Roni (Kor)
Player of the match: Wu Juan (Chn)
  • Japan won the toss and elected to bat.

Play-offs

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Third-place play-off

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22 September 2019
14:00
Scorecard
Japan  
129/6 (20 overs)
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  South Korea
97/8 (20 overs)
Shizuka Miyaji 47 (44)
Mina Baek 4/17 (4 overs)
Sinae Kim 23 (44)
Nao Tokizawa 3/6 (4 overs)
Japan won by 32 runs
Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon
Player of the match: Shizuka Miyaji (Jpn)
  • South Korea won the toss and elected to field.

Final

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22 September 2019
09:30
Scorecard
China  
104/4 (20 overs)
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  Hong Kong
90/9 (20 overs)
Sun Meng Yao 49* (59)
Betty Chan 2/14 (4 overs)
Kary Chan 21 (20)
Liu Jie 3/17 (4 overs)
China won by 14 runs
Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon
Player of the match: Sun Meng Yao (Chn)
  • Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field.

References

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  1. ^ "Korea Cricket Association to host 4-nation Women's East Asia Cup 2019 tournament". Female Cricket. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Women's East Asia Cup 2019 squad announcement". Cricket Hong Kong. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Women's Team For East Asia Cup Announced". Japan Cricket Association. 5 August 2019. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  4. ^ "East Asia Cup 2018". Cricket Hong Kong. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  6. ^ "East Asia Cup (Women)". Japan Cricket Association. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  7. ^ "South Korea edge Japan to win East Asia Cup cricket tournament". Inside the Games. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  8. ^ "Japan win East Asia Cup". Japan Cricket Association. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  9. ^ "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  10. ^ "East Asia Cup: Japan win 3rd place over South Korea while China win final over Hong Kong". Japan Cricket Association. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  11. ^ "Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup 2019 - Points Table". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
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