2022 Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup

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2022 Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup
  Flag of Japan.svg Flag of Hong Kong.svg
  Japan Hong Kong
Dates 27 – 30 October 2022
Captains Mai Yanagida Kary Chan [n 1]
Twenty20 International series
Results Hong Kong won the 4-match series 4–0
Most runs Akari Kano (75) Natasha Miles (149)
Most wickets Mai Yanagida (3)
Shizuka Miyaji (3)
Betty Chan (6)
Player of the series Mariko Hill (HK)

The 2022 Women's East Asia Cup was a Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) cricket tournament held in Kaizuka, Osaka, Japan from 27 to 30 October 2022. [1] This was the fourth edition of the women's East Asia Cup, and was originally scheduled to involve the same teams as in all previous editions, namely China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. [2] China and South Korea both withdrew from this year's tournament, and so Japan and Hong Kong played a four-match series to determine the winner. [3] The four member countries signed an agreement in 2021 to make the women's East Asia Cup an annual event, [4] but the 2021 event (which would have been played in Hong Kong) was cancelled due to COVID-19. [5] China won the previous tournament in 2019. [6]

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Hong Kong were comfortable winners by 8 wickets in the first game. [7] The second game ended with the same result, with Hong Kong's Mariko Hill scoring an unbeaten 51. [8] Hong Kong took an unassailable lead in the series by winning the third game, helped by an unbeaten 86 from Natasha Miles. [9] [10] An improved performance by the hosts saw Japan fall short by just 3 runs, with Akari Kano scoring an unbeaten half-century. [11] The last match of the series ended in a tie, with Hong Kong winning in the Super Over to take the series 4–0. [12]

Squads

Flag of Japan.svg  Japan [1] Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong [13]
  • Mai Yanagida (c)
  • Ahilya Chandel
  • Ayumi Fujikawa
  • Kiyo Fujikawa
  • Hinase Goto
  • Haruna Iwasaki
  • Ayaka Kanada
  • Ruan Kanai
  • Akari Kano (wk)
  • Shimako Kato
  • Shizuka Miyaji
  • Mako Munakata
  • Erika Oda
  • Meg Ogawa
  • Minami Yoshioka

WT20I series

1st WT20I

27 October 2022
11:00
Scorecard
Japan  Flag of Japan.svg
90/7 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong
91/2 (14 overs)
Shimako Kato 15 (16)
Maryam Bibi 2/7 (4 overs)
Mariko Hill 40 (32)
Mai Yanagida 1/11 (2 overs)
Hong Kong won by 8 wickets
Kaizuka Cricket Ground, Kaizuka
Umpires: Adam Birss (Jpn) and Dhakshinamoorthy Natarajan (Jpn)
Player of the match: Mariko Hill (HK)
  • Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field.
  • Ahilya Chandel, Hinase Goto, Haruna Iwasaki, Shimako Kato and Mako Munakata (Jpn) all made their WT20I debuts.

2nd WT20I

28 October 2022
11:00
Scorecard
Japan  Flag of Japan.svg
91 (19.2 overs)
v
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong
93/2 (13.2 overs)
Shimako Kato 28 (36)
Betty Chan 4/13 (3.2 overs)
Mariko Hill 51* (39)
Ahilya Chandel 1/19 (4 overs)
Hong Kong won by 8 wickets
Kaizuka Cricket Ground, Kaizuka
Umpires: Adam Birss (Jpn) and Dhakshinamoorthy Natarajan (Jpn)
Player of the match: Mariko Hill (HK)
  • Japan won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Minami Yoshioka (Jpn) made her WT20I debut.

3rd WT20I

29 October 2022
11:00
Scorecard
Hong Kong  Flag of Hong Kong.svg
142/2 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
139/4 (20 overs)
Natasha Miles 86* (70)
Mai Yanagida 1/15 (2 overs)
Akari Kano 54 (50)
Ruchitha Venkatesh 1/25 (4 overs)
Hong Kong won by 3 runs
Kaizuka Cricket Ground, Kaizuka
Umpires: Adam Birss (Jpn) and Dhakshinamoorthy Natarajan (Jpn)
Player of the match: Natasha Miles (HK)
  • Hong Kong won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Ayumi Fujikawa, Meg Ogawa (Jpn) and Georgina Bradley (HK) all made their WT20I debuts.

4th WT20I

30 October 2022
11:00
Scorecard
Hong Kong  Flag of Hong Kong.svg
101/7 (20 overs)
v
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
101/7 (20 overs)
Ruchitha Venkatesh 23* (26)
Ahilya Chandel 1/10 (3 overs)
Ahilya Chandel 26 (28)
Maryam Bibi 2/13 (4 overs)
Match tied (Hong Kong won the Super Over)
Kaizuka Cricket Ground, Kaizuka
Umpires: Adam Birss (Jpn) and Dhakshinamoorthy Natarajan (Jpn)
Player of the match: Ruchitha Venkatesh (HK)
  • Japan won the toss and elected to field.
  • Super Over: Japan 4/2, Hong Kong 5/0.
  • Shizuka Miyaji took her 45th international wicket to became Japan's all-time leading wicket taker. [12]

Notes

  1. Yasmin Daswani captained Hong Kong in the last three WT20Is.

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