2019 Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup

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2019 Women's East Asia Cup
Dates19 – 22 September 2019
Administrator(s) Korea Cricket Association
Cricket format Twenty20 International
Host(s)Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
ChampionsFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China (2nd title)
Runners-upFlag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong
Participants4
Matches8
Most runs Flag of Japan.svg Shizuka Miyaji (92)
Most wickets Flag of Hong Kong.svg Kary Chan (14)
2017
2022

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]

Contents

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

Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong [2] Flag of Japan.svg  Japan [3] Flag of South Korea.svg  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
  • 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

Points table

Team [11] P W L T NR Pts NRR Status
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 321004+1.768Advanced to the final
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong 321004+0.559
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 321004–0.140Advanced to the 3rd place play-off
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea (H)303000–2.167

Matches

19 September 2019
09:30
Scorecard
Japan  Flag of Japan.svg
97/7 (20 overs)
v
Flag of South Korea.svg  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  Flag of Hong Kong.svg
84/5 (20 overs)
v
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  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  Flag of Hong Kong.svg
91 (19.5 overs)
v
Flag of Japan.svg  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  Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg
132/6 (20 overs)
v
Flag of South Korea.svg  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  Flag of Hong Kong.svg
120/5 (20 overs)
v
Flag of South Korea.svg  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  Flag of Japan.svg
67 (19.3 overs)
v
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  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

Third-place play-off

22 September 2019
14:00
Scorecard
Japan  Flag of Japan.svg
129/6 (20 overs)
v
Flag of South Korea.svg  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

22 September 2019
09:30
Scorecard
China  Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg
104/4 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  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.

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