Dates | 19 – 25 February 2017 |
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Administrator(s) | International Cricket Council |
Cricket format | Limited-overs (50 overs) |
Tournament format(s) | Round-robin and Knockout |
Host(s) | Australia |
Champions | Vanuatu |
Participants | 6 |
The 2017 ICC World Cricket League East Asia-Pacific Region Qualifiers was an international cricket tournament that took place in Bendigo, Australia. [1] The teams competing in the tournament are Vanuatu, Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines and Samoa. The winner of the qualifiers progressed to ICC WCL Division 5 which will be staged in September 2017.
Six teams invited by ICC for the tournament:
Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Points | NRR | Qualification |
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Vanuatu | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | +2.935 | 2017 ICC World Cricket League Division Five |
Fiji | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +1.050 | |
Samoa | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +0.340 | |
Philippines | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -0.580 | |
Indonesia | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | -1.927 | |
Japan | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1.642 |
Source: Cricinfo [2]
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