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. 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.
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. The women's event was won by China in 2015 and by Hong Kong in 2017. 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. 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).
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*.
Squads 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 Kary Chan (c) Maryam Bibi Betty Chan Dorothea Chan Hiu Ying Cheung Yasmin Daswani Mariko Hill Emma Lai Bella Poon Shanzeen Shahzad Alison Siu Pull To Ruchitha Venkatesh Mehreen Yousaf Mai Yanagida (c) Rio Endo Kiyo Fujikawa Ayaka Kanada Ruan Kanai Miho Kanno Akari Kano Akari Kitayama Shizuka Miyaji Kasumi Nanno Erika Oda Madoka Shiraishi Kotone Taniguchi Nao Tokizawa 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 Status 3 2 1 0 0 4 +1.768 Advanced to the final 3 2 1 0 0 4 +0.559 3 2 1 0 0 4 –0.140 Advanced to the 3rd place play-off (H) 3 0 3 0 0 0 –2.167
Matches
Play-offs Third-place play-off
Final
References
External links Series home at ESPN Cricinfo