Dates | 6–11 July 2015 |
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Administrator(s) | Pacific Games Council |
Cricket format | 20-over |
Tournament format(s) | Group stage, playoffs |
Host(s) | ![]() |
Champions | ![]() |
Participants | 6 |
Matches played | 19 |
A women's 20-over cricket tournament at the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, was held from 6 to 11 July 2015. Played at Amini Park and the Colts Cricket Ground, it will be followed by the men's tournament at the same venues the following week.
Twenty20 cricket, or (Twenty-20), and often abbreviated to T20, is a short form of cricket. At the professional level, it was originally introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition in England and Wales. In a Twenty20 game the two teams have a single innings each, which is restricted to a maximum of 20 overs. Together with first-class and List A cricket, Twenty20 is one of the three current forms of cricket recognised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as being at the highest international or domestic level. A typical Twenty20 game is completed in about three hours, with each innings lasting around 90 minutes and an official 10 minute break between the innings. This is much shorter than previously-existing forms of the game, and is closer to the timespan of other popular team sports. It was introduced to create a fast-paced form of the game which would be attractive to spectators at the ground and viewers on television.
The 2015 Pacific Games, also known as Port Moresby 2015 or POM 2015, was held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, from 4 to 18 July 2015. It was the fifteenth staging of the Pacific Games as well as the third to be hosted in Port Moresby.
Port Moresby, also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea and the largest city in the South Pacific outside of Australia and New Zealand. It is located on the shores of the Gulf of Papua, on the south-western coast of the Papuan Peninsula of the island of New Guinea. The city emerged as a trade centre in the second half of the 19th century. During World War II it was a prime objective for conquest by the Imperial Japanese forces during 1942–43 as a staging point and air base to cut off Australia from Southeast Asia and the Americas.
Six teams participated in the tournament, two more than in the men's version – at earlier editions of the Pacific Games (previously known as the South Pacific Games), no women's tournament was played. Samoa defeated Papua New Guinea by three runs in the final to win the gold medal, becoming only the second country (after Papua New Guinea) to win a Pacific Games gold medal in cricket. Fiji defeated Vanuatu in a play-off for the bronze medal.
The Samoan women's national cricket team, nicknamed the Nafanua, represents the Independent State of Samoa in international women's cricket. It is organised by the game's governing body in the country, the Samoa International Cricket Association (SICA).
The Papua New Guinea women's national cricket team represents the country of Papua New Guinea in international women's cricket. The team is organised by Cricket PNG, an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
The Fiji women's national cricket team is the team that represents the country of Fiji in international Women's cricket matches. Fiji has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1965, although the team's history of the game in the country goes back to the late 19th century.
The tournament also served as part of the qualification process for the 2018 World Twenty20 in the West Indies, with the top two teams joining Japan in a tri-series in 2016 to decide the ICC East Asia-Pacific region's representative at the World Twenty20 Qualifier in 2017. Because New Caledonia is not an ICC member, a separate system was used to decide which two teams proceeded. [1] However, the separate system produced the same teams as the regular table. [2]
The 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 was hosted in the West Indies from 9 to 24 November 2018, during the 2018–19 international cricket season. It was the sixth edition of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup, and the second hosted by the West Indies. The West Indies were the defending champions.
The Japanese women's cricket team is the team that represents the country of Japan in international women's cricket matches.
ICC East Asia-Pacific is the International Cricket Council region responsible for administration of the sport of cricket in East Asia and the Pacific area.
Papua New Guinea and Samoa prepared for the tournament by playing a series in Apia, with PNG also playing matches against the men's under-19 team. [3] As part of an arrangement with ICC East Asia-Pacific, Australia's Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) toured both Fiji and Vanuatu in May 2015, fielding a mixed men's and women's team in matches against the Fiji and Vanuatu women's national teams. [4] [5] Earlier, in April, Vanuatu had hosted New Caledonia. [6]
Apia is the capital and the largest city of Samoa. From 1900 to 1919, it was the capital of German Samoa. The city is located on the central north coast of Upolu, Samoa's second largest island. Apia is the only city in Samoa and falls within the political district (itūmālō) of Tuamasaga.
The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) is a sports club based in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1838 and is one of the oldest sports clubs in Australia.
Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu, is a Pacific island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is 1,750 kilometres (1,090 mi) east of northern Australia, 540 kilometres (340 mi) northeast of New Caledonia, east of New Guinea, southeast of the Solomon Islands, and west of Fiji.
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Qualified for the preliminary final. |
Team | Pld | W | L | T | Pts | NRR |
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![]() | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 | +4.100 |
![]() | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | +4.019 |
![]() | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | –0.020 |
![]() | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | –0.169 |
![]() | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | –2.227 |
![]() | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | –5.176 |
6 July Scorecard |
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The top five runscorers are included in this table, ranked by runs scored and then by batting average.
In cricket, a player's batting average is the total number of runs they have scored divided by the number of times they have been out. Since the number of runs a player scores and how often they get out are primarily measures of their own playing ability, and largely independent of their teammates, batting average is a good metric for an individual player's skill as a batter. The number is also simple to interpret intuitively. If all the batter's innings were completed, this is the average number of runs they score per innings. If they did not complete all their innings, this number is an estimate of the unknown average number of runs they score per innings.
Player | Team | Runs | Inns | Avg | Highest | 100s | 50s |
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Norma Ovasuru | ![]() | 239 | 5 | 47.80 | 75 | 0 | 2 |
Varoi Morea | ![]() | 170 | 6 | 34.00 | 61* | 0 | 1 |
Ruci Muriyalo | ![]() | 167 | 5 | 83.50 | 72 | 0 | 1 |
Lily Mulivai | ![]() | 139 | 7 | 27.80 | 59* | 0 | 1 |
Regina Lili'i | ![]() | 134 | 6 | 44.67 | 66* | 0 | 1 |
Source: CricHQ
The top five wicket takers are listed in this table, ranked by wickets taken and then by bowling average.
Player | Team | Overs | Wkts | Ave | SR | Econ | BBI |
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Selina Solman | ![]() | 24.2 | 12 | 6.67 | 12.17 | 3.29 | 3/3 |
Ruci Muriyalo | ![]() | 22.1 | 12 | 7.42 | 11.08 | 4.01 | 5/8 |
Lagi Tele'a | ![]() | 18.0 | 11 | 6.27 | 9.82 | 3.83 | 5/11 |
Boni David | ![]() | 23.0 | 11 | 6.55 | 12.55 | 3.13 | 4/10 |
Valenta Langiatu | ![]() | 19.0 | 11 | 9.36 | 10.36 | 5.42 | 3/11 |
Source: CricHQ
Rank | Team | Pld | W | T | L | NR |
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![]() | ![]() | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
![]() | ![]() | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
![]() | ![]() | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
4 | ![]() | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
5 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
6 | ![]() | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
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