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]
| Dates | 19 – 22 September 2019 |
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| Administrator(s) | Korea Cricket Association |
| Cricket format | Twenty20 International |
| Host(s) |  South Korea |
| Champions |  China (2nd title) |
| Runners-up |  Hong Kong |
| Participants | 4 |
| Matches | 8 |
| Most runs |  Shizuka Miyaji (92) |
| Most wickets | Kary Chan (14) |
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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Round-robin
editPoints table
edit| Team[11] | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR | Status |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +1.768 | Advanced to the final |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +0.559 | |
| Japan
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.140 | Advanced to the 3rd place play-off |
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3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –2.167 |
Matches
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Ayaka Kanada 29* (35)
Hyejin Park 2/14 (2 overs) |
- South Korea won the toss and elected to field.
- Kiyo Fujikawa (Jpn) made her WT20I debut.
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Yasmin Daswani 20 (37)
Li Haoye 1/17 (4 overs) |
- Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field.
- Sun Meng Yao (Chn) made her WT20I debut.
- Kary Chan (HK) took her first hat-trick in WT20Is.
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Ruchitha Venkatesh 25 (40)
Miho Kanno 2/14 (4 overs) |
Nao Tokizawa 22 (34)
Kary Chan 3/7 (3 overs) |
- Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field.
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Zhang Mei 35 (42)
Mina Baek 2/21 (4 overs) |
Kang Choi 14 (32)
Fengfeng Song 4/7 (2.5 overs) |
- South Korea won the toss and elected to field.
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Sinae Kim 25 (60)
Ruchitha Venkatesh 2/18 (4 overs) |
- South Korea won the toss and elected to field.
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Nao Tokizawa 28 (34)
Wu Juan 3/5 (4 overs) |
Caiyun Zhou 18 (22)
Mai Yanagida 2/14 (4 overs) |
- Japan won the toss and elected to bat.
Play-offs
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Shizuka Miyaji 47 (44)
Mina Baek 4/17 (4 overs) |
Sinae Kim 23 (44)
Nao Tokizawa 3/6 (4 overs) |
- South Korea won the toss and elected to field.
Final
editReferences
edit- ^ "Korea Cricket Association to host 4-nation Women's East Asia Cup 2019 tournament". Female Cricket. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
- ^ a b c "Women's East Asia Cup 2019 squad announcement". Cricket Hong Kong. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ^ a b "Women's Team For East Asia Cup Announced". Japan Cricket Association. 5 August 2019. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
- ^ "East Asia Cup 2018". Cricket Hong Kong. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
- ^ "Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ^ "East Asia Cup (Women)". Japan Cricket Association. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ^ "South Korea edge Japan to win East Asia Cup cricket tournament". Inside the Games. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
- ^ "Japan win East Asia Cup". Japan Cricket Association. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
- ^ "All T20 matches between ICC members to get international status". International Cricket Council. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
- ^ "East Asia Cup: Japan win 3rd place over South Korea while China win final over Hong Kong". Japan Cricket Association. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
- ^ "Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup 2019 - Points Table". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 13 August 2019.