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The Cook Islands women's national cricket team represents the
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, an
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of
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, in international
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. It is organised by the sport's governing body in the country, the
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(CICA), which has been an affiliate member of the
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(ICC) since 2000. The Cook Islands made its international debut at the 2012
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regional qualifiers for the
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, but lost every match, finishing last. They improved slightly at the 2014 edition, winning a single match (against
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) and placing fourth out of five teams. Their next major tournament is the women's event at the
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in
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. In April 2018, the ICC granted full
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(WT20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all
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matches played between the Cook Islands women and another international side since 1 July 2018 have been full WT20Is.


History

Unlike in many other Pacific island countries, where women's cricket has been played alongside the men's game, women's cricket was only introduced to the Cook Islands in 2009.Matariki Wilson (29 January 2015)
"Lifetime service award for local cricket diehard"
– ''Cook Islands News''. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
A high-performance program was established in the same year, with assistance from
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(EAP) and a New Zealand provincial governing body, the
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. The sport quickly gained in popularity amongst Cook Islander women, with significant numbers of clubs established in only a few years – in April 2014, it was reported that there were 600 female participants in the sport, out of a total population of 8,000 women. At the 2012 ICC EAP Development Programme Awards, the Cook Islands Cricket Association won the award for "Best Women's Cricket Initiative". With earlier applications to participate in regional tournaments having been declined, the Cook Islands made its international debut at the 2012 EAP Women's Championship in
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,
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. That tournament was played using the
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format, with the winner progressing to the 2013 World Twenty20 Qualifier in Ireland. The team joined the three sides from the 2010 tournament –
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,
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, and
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– as well as
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and
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(also making their tournament debut). The Cook Islands lost all three of its group-stage matches by large margins, and eventually placed last after losing to Fiji in the fifth-place playoff. In the opening game against Samoa, they were bowled out for 36 from 12.1 overs, while against PNG they were all out for 47 from 17.3 overs. In 2014, the Cook Islanders played several exhibition matches against club teams touring the islands from New Zealand, and were consequently invited to the 2014 EAP Women's Championship, despite their poor performance at the previous edition. The winner of that tournament was to qualify for the 2015 World Twenty20 Qualifier in Thailand. Despite fielding a young team, including four players under the age of 18, the Cook Islands dramatically improved upon its 2012 result, defeating Vanuatu in the fourth-place playoff by six wickets after bowling them out for 73. However, they were unable to win the subsequent third-place playoff against Samoa, and in the earlier group stages had lost all of their games. The Cook Islands' next major tournament is the women's event 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 (; Tok Pisin: ''Pot Mosbi''), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea. It is one of the largest cities in the southwestern Pacific (along with Jayapura) outside of Australia and New Z ...
. In December 2020, the ICC announced the qualification pathway for the
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. The Cook Islands were named in the 2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup EAP Qualifier regional group, alongside seven other teams.


Tournament history


EAP Women's Championship

* 2010: ''did not qualify'' * 2012: 6th place (6 teams) * 2014: 4th place (5 teams)ICC East Asia-Pacific Women's Championship 2014
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 June.


Pacific Games

*
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: 5th place (6 teams)


See also

* Cook Islands men's national cricket team


References

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