The Vanuatu women's national cricket team represents the country of Vanuatu in international women's cricket. It is organised by the game's governing body in the country, the

Vanuatu Cricket Association Vanuatu Cricket, officially the Vanuatu Cricket Association, is the national governing body of the sport of cricket in Vanuatu. Its current headquarters is in Port Vila, Vanuatu. Vanuatu Cricket Association is Vanuatu's representative at the Int ...

(VCA), which is an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC). Having made its international debut the previous year, against

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, Vanuatu first participated in an international tournament at the 2012 ICC East Asia-Pacific regional qualifiers for the

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, winning two matches and placing fourth out of six teams. At the 2014 edition of the same tournament, they finished last, with only a single win (against the Cook Islands). Vanuatu's next major event was the women's tournament at the

2015 Pacific Games 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. More tha ...

in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. In April 2018, the ICC granted full Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Vanuatu women and another international side since 1 July 2018 have the full WT20I status.

History

"Traditional cricket", similar to the ''

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'' played in Samoa, has long been popular amongst Ni-Vanuatu women, but the standard version of the sport was only popularised in the late 2000s, with the backing of the

(VCA) and the ICC East Asia-Pacific development programme. Vanuatu made its international debut in April 2011, hosting a tri-series against

and a team from the

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region of the Australian state of New South Wales. In May 2012, the country hosted the 2012 East Asia-Pacific Women's Championship. The tournament was played using the Twenty20 format, with the winner progressing to the 2013 World Twenty20 Qualifier in Ireland. Vanuatu joined the three teams from the previous 2010 tournament –

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, Papua New Guinea, and Samoa – as well as the Cook Islands and Fiji. In the round-robin stage, Vanuatu recorded wins against Fiji and the Cook Islands, finishing fourth in the table. In the third-place playoff against Samoa, they lost by eight wickets. At the 2014 EAP Women's Championship in Japan (a qualifier for the 2015 World Twenty20 Qualifier), Vanuatu again placed fourth in the group stages, though out of five rather than six teams (Fiji having dropped out). Their only win in the round-robin was by eight runs against the Cook Islands, but they were unable to repeat that in the fifth-place playoff, losing by six wickets. In April 2015, the New Caledonian national women's team toured Vanuatu, playing six matches against Vanuatu in Port Vila. The tour was part of both sides' preparation for the women's tournament at the

in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Vanuatu also played against a mixed men and women's side from the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) in the lead-up to the games.(1 July 2015
"Vanuatu and New Caledonia hope to shine at Pacific Games"
– ICC East Asia-Pacific. Retrieved 10 July 2015. In December 2020, the ICC announced the qualification pathway for the

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. Vanuatu were named in the

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regional group, alongside seven other teams.

Tournament history

EAP Women's Championship

* 2010: ''did not qualify'' * 2012: 4th place (6 teams) * 2014: 5th place (5 teams)

Pacific Games

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: 4th place (6 teams) *

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: Bronze

Current squad

This lists all the players who played for Vanuatu in the past 12 months or were named in the most recent squad. ''Updated on 8 September 2023.''

Records and statistics

International Match Summary — Vanuatu Women ''Last updated 21 January 2024''

Twenty20 International

*Highest team total: 177/1 v. Cook Islands on 19 January 2024 at Lloyd Elsmore Park 1, Auckland. *Highest individual innings: 106 *, Rachel Andrew v. Cook Islands on 19 January 2024 at Lloyd Elsmore Park 1, Auckland. *Best innings bowling: 5/9, Selina Solman v. Cook Islands on 19 January 2024 at Lloyd Elsmore Park 1, Auckland. Most T20I runs for Vanuatu Women Most T20I wickets for Vanuatu Women T20I record versus other nations ''Records complete to WT20I #1742. Last updated 21 January 2024.''

References

{{National sports teams of Vanuatu Women's national cricket teams Cricket, women * Vanuatu in international cricket Women's sport in Vanuatu