# 2024 Twenty20 East Asia Cup

The 2024 East Asia Cup was held in Hong Kong in February 2024, and was the third edition of Men's Twenty20 East Asia Cup. This was the first edition in which all of the matches had Twenty20 International (T20I) status. Japan won the previous edition in 2018. South Korea did not participate in this edition of the tournament.
Hong Kong defeated Japan in the final by 34 runs. The victory secured Hong Kong's first men's East Asia Cup title.

## Squads

| China | Hong Kong | Japan |
| Wei Guo Lei (c, wk) Deng Jinqi Xie Qiulai Zhuang Zelin Zou Kui Tian Sen Qun Qiu Yingjie Huang Junjie (wk) Ma Qiancheng Luo Shilin Zhao Tianle Zong Yuechao Shenjian Zheng Chen Zhuo Yue | Nizakat Khan (c) Yasim Murtaza (vc) Zeeshan Ali (wk) Haroon Arshad Jamie Atkinson (wk) Martin Coetzee Mohammad Ghazanfar Babar Hayat Ateeq Iqbal Aizaz Khan Anas Khan Ehsan Khan Jason Lui (wk) Nasrulla Rana Dhananjay Rao Anshuman Rath | Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming (c) Koji Abe Ryan Drake Charles Hinze Kazuma Kato-Stafford Wataru Miyauchi (wk) Sabaorish Ravichandran Reo Sakurano-Thomas Mian Siddique Declan Suzuki-McComb Ibrahim Takahashi Makoto Taniyama Marcus Thurgate Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake |

## Round-robin
### Points table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR | Qualification |
| 1 | Hong Kong | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4.075 | Advanced to the final |
| 2 | Japan | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2.089 | Advanced to the final |
| 3 | China | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | −6.121 | |

### Fixtures

* 14 February 2024 09:00 Scorecard
| Hong Kong 171/5 (20 overs) | v | China 48/8 (20 overs) |
| Anshuman Rath 72* (46) Tian Sen Qun 3/20 (4 overs) | | Huang Junjie 10 (30) Nizakat Khan 2/5 (2 overs) |
* Hong Kong won by 123 runs Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Shelton D'Cruz (HK) and John Prakash (HK) Player of the match: Anshuman Rath (HK)
* Hong Kong won the toss and elected to bat.
* Dhananjay Rao (HK) and Shenjian Zheng (Chn) both made their T20I debuts.
* 14 February 2024 14:00 Scorecard
| Japan 179/5 (20 overs) | v | Hong Kong 184/3 (16.1 overs) |
| Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming 78 (53) Aizaz Khan 2/44 (4 overs) | | Jamie Atkinson 68* (36) Declan Suzuki-McComb 1/21 (3 overs) |
* Hong Kong won by 7 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Niaz Ali (HK) and John Prakash (HK) Player of the match: Jamie Atkinson (HK)
* Japan won the toss and elected to bat.
* 15 February 2024 09:00 Scorecard
| Japan 258/0 (20 overs) | v | China 78 (16.5 overs) |
| Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake 134* (68) | | Wei Guo Lei 24 (23) Makoto Taniyama 3/5 (3 overs) |
* Japan won by 180 runs Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Jayanth Babu (HK) and Shelton D'Cruz (HK) Player of the match: Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming (Jpn) and Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake (Jpn)
* Japan won the toss and elected to bat.
* Marcus Thurgate (Jpn) made his T20I debut.
* Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake (Jpn) scored his first century in T20Is.
* The partnership between Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming and Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake (Jpn) was the highest in men's T20Is (258).
* 15 February 2024 14:00 Scorecard
| Hong Kong 155 (19.4 overs) | v | Japan 128 (18.5 overs) |
| Yasim Murtaza 48 (26) Sabaorish Ravichandran 5/22 (4 overs) | | Ibrahim Takahashi 25 (23) Anas Khan 4/30 (4 overs) |
* Hong Kong won by 27 runs Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Niaz Ali (HK) and John Prakash (HK) Player of the match: Yasim Murtaza (HK)
* Hong Kong won the toss and elected to bat.
* Sabaorish Ravichandran (Jpn) took his first five-wicket haul in T20Is.
* 16 February 2024 09:00 Scorecard
| China 41 (12.4 overs) | v | Hong Kong 42/0 (5 overs) |
| Shenjian Zheng 21 (13) Haroon Arshad 4/7 (4 overs) | | Aizaz Khan 21* (14) |
* Hong Kong won by 10 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Shelton D'Cruz (HK) and Shiroy Vachha (HK) Player of the match: Haroon Arshad (HK)
* China won the toss and elected to bat.
* Jason Lui (HK) made his T20I debut.
* 16 February 2024 14:00 Scorecard
| Japan 143 (19.3 overs) | v | China 99/8 (20 overs) |
| Wataru Miyauchi 31 (24) Tian Sen Qun 4/12 (4 overs) | | Deng Jinqi 38 (49) Mian Siddique 2/17 (3 overs) |
* Japan won by 44 runs Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Shelton D'Cruz (HK) and John Prakash (HK) Player of the match: Mian Siddique (Jpn)
* Japan won the toss and elected to bat.

## Final

* 17 February 2024 09:00 Scorecard
| Hong Kong 219/7 (20 overs) | v | Japan 185/8 (20 overs) |
| Nizakat Khan 81 (48) Reo Sakurano-Thomas 3/40 (4 overs) | | Declan Suzuki-McComb 37 (28) Yasim Murtaza 3/25 (4 overs) |
* Hong Kong won by 34 runs Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Shelton D'Cruz (HK) and John Prakash (HK) Player of the match: Nizakat Khan (HK)
* Japan won the toss and elected to field.
* Hong Kong's innings total of 219 was their highest in men's T20Is.

## Exhibition match

* 17 February 2024 14:00 Scorecard
| Hong Kong Dragons 92 (18.2 overs) | v | China 93/5 (9.4 overs) |
| Bobby Chan 20 (25) Zong Yuechao 2/7 (3 overs) | | Wei Guo Lei 35 (26) Anthony Lau 2/20 (2.4 overs) |
* China won by 5 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Royce McDonald (HK) and Hemant Tukrul (HK) Player of the match: Wei Guo Lei (Chn)
* China won the toss and elected to field.