The 2017 Women's East Asia Cup was a
Twenty20 (T20)
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
tournament, which was held in Hong Kong in September 2017.
The venues for the round-robin stage matches were the
Hong Kong Cricket Club in Wong Nai, and the
Mission Road Ground Mission Road Ground or Tin Kwong Road Recreation Ground is a multi-purpose sports field in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, which is mainly used for cricket matches. It was opened in 1976, and the first match played there was between a Hong Kong XI and the Que ...
in
Mong Kok. The tournament was completed with the final and third-place play-off, which were played at the
Kowloon Cricket Club
The Kowloon Cricket Club, also called KCC (), is a members only cricket club and social club situated in Kowloon, Hong Kong, on Cox's Road.
History
The Cricket Club was established on 4 October 1904 and was provided land from the government i ...
.
The
Twenty20 East Asia Cup
The Twenty20 East Asia Cup is a quadrangular cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced o ...
is an annual competition featuring
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
,
Hong Kong,
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
and
South Korea that was first played in 2015 and alternates annually between a men's and women's event. China were the defending women's champions, having won the inaugural edition in
2015
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at the
Yeonhui Cricket Ground in
Incheon
Incheon (; ; or Inch'ŏn; literally "kind river"), formerly Jemulpo or Chemulp'o (제물포) until the period after 1910, officially the Incheon Metropolitan City (인천광역시, 仁川廣域市), is a city located in northwestern South Kore ...
, South Korea.
South Korea had won the inaugural men's edition in
2016
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.
Matches did not have
Twenty20 International status.
Hong Kong defeated Japan in the final on 24 September 2017 to win the Women's East Asia Cup for the first time.
Squads
Round-robin
Points table
Matches
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Play-offs
Third-place play-off
Final
References
External links
Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
{{DEFAULTSORT:2017 East Asia Women's Twenty20 Cup
International cricket competitions in 2017–18
2017 Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup