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2017 Women's East Asia Cup

Dates	21 – 24 September 2017
Administrator(s)	Hong Kong Cricket Association
Cricket format	Twenty20
Host(s)	Hong Kong
Champions	Hong Kong (1st title)
Runners-up	Japan
Participants	4
Matches	8
Most runs	Yasmin Daswani (179)
Most wickets	Etsuko Kobayashi (6)
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The 2017 Women's East Asia Cup was a Twenty20 (T20) cricket 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 in Mong Kok. The tournament was completed with the final and third-place play-off, which were played at the Kowloon Cricket Club.

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. China were the defending women's champions, having won the inaugural edition in 2015 at the Yeonhui Cricket Ground in Incheon, South Korea. South Korea had won the inaugural men's edition in 2016. The matches did not have Twenty20 International status.

Hong Kong defeated Japan in a close contest in the final on 24 September 2017 to win the Women's East Asia Cup for the first time.

Squads

China	Hong Kong	Japan	South Korea
Zhang Chan (c) Li Haoye Han Lili Zhongyuan Lyu Tian Qi Shi Rui Fengfeng Song Wang Luo Wanyu Zhang Xiangxue Ying Xiaoxiao Chen Xinyu Zhang Yanling Caiyun Zhou Mingyue Zhu	Mariko Hill (c) Betty Chan Charlotte Chan Kary Chan Yasmin Daswani Jenefer Davies Keenu Gill Annie Ho Emma Lai Bella Poon Shanzeen Shahzad Yee Shan To Ruchitha Venkatesh Natural Yip	Mai Yanagida (c) Miho Asama Rio Endo Erika Ida Kanae Ishimoto Miho Kanno Kisaki Iwahashi Akari Kitayama Etsuko Kobayashi Mayu Suzuki Shizuka Miyaji Madoka Shiraishi Sonia Wylde Eri Yamaguchi	Seungmin Song (c) Mina Baek Seri Chang Kang Choi Unhwa Hyun Seohee Kim Sinae Kim Su Jin Kim Haliam Kwon Hee Jung Lee Hyejin Park Jiyeon Park Jiyeon Park jnr So Hyeon Park

Round-robin

Points table

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR	Status
Hong Kong (H)	3	2	0	0	1	5	+4.450	Advanced to the final
Japan	3	2	0	0	1	5	+0.470
South Korea	3	0	2	0	1	1	–2.525	Advanced to the 3rd place play-off
China	3	0	2	0	1	1	–2.603

Matches

Japan  110/8 (20 overs)	v	South Korea 101/8 (20 overs)
Miho Kanno 22 (24) Jiyeon Park 2/12 (3 overs)		Jiyeon Park 27 (45) Etsuko Kobayashi 4/24 (4 overs)

• South Korea Women won the toss and elected to field.

Hong Kong  161/3 (20 overs)	v	China 75/5 (20 overs)
Yasmin Daswani 71* (68) Tian Qi 2/23 (4 overs)		Zhang Chan 34* (43) Betty Chan 2/19 (4 overs)

• China Women won the toss and elected to field.

China  85/6 (17 overs)	v	Japan 88/3 (15.4 overs)
Zhang Chan 23 (42) Etsuko Kobayashi 2/23 (4 overs)		Mai Yanagida 42 (48) Shi Rui 1/14 (2 overs)

• China Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• The match was reduced to 17 overs per side and Japan Women were set a revised target of 88 runs to win due to rain.

Hong Kong  151/3 (20 overs)	v	South Korea 59/8 (20 overs)
Yasmin Daswani 77 (64) So Hyeon Park 1/32 (4 overs)		Sinae Kim 14 (27) Annie Ho 2/2 (3 overs)

• Hong Kong Women won the toss and elected to bat.

Hong Kong	v	Japan

• No toss.
• No play was possible due to rain.

China	v	South Korea

• No toss.
• No play was possible due to rain.

Play-offs

Third-place play-off

China  74/6 (15 overs)	v	South Korea 66/9 (15 overs)
Caiyun Zhou 17 (20) Seungmin Song 3/16 (3 overs)		Jiyeon Park 18* (31) Tian Qi 3/13 (3 overs)

• China Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• The match was reduced to 15 overs per side due to rain.

Final

Japan  90/4 (20 overs)	v	Hong Kong 85/5 (16.2 overs)
Mai Yanagida 35 (56) Betty Chan 2/3 (4 overs)		Yasmin Daswani 31 (49) Sonia Wylde 1/7 (1 over)

• Japan Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Hong Kong Women were set a revised target of 83 runs to win from 18 overs due to rain.

References

1. "Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
2. ^ "East Asia Cup (Women)". Japan Cricket Association. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
3. "East Asia Cup 2018". Cricket Hong Kong. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
4. "2015 East Asia Cup". Japan Cricket Association. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
5. "South Korea edge Japan to win East Asia Cup cricket tournament". Inside the Games. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
6. "China Women squad East Asia Cup 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
7. "Hong Kong Women squad East Asia Cup 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
8. "Japan Women squad East Asia Cup 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
9. "South Korea Women squad East Asia Cup 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
10. "Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup 2017 - Points Table". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 May 2020.

External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo

• International cricket competitions in 2017–18
• Twenty20 East Asia Cup