# 2019 Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup

The 2019 Women's East Asia Cup was a Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) cricket tournament, which was held in South Korea in September 2019. All of the matches were played at the Yeonhui Cricket Ground in Incheon, where a round-robin series was followed by a final and a third-place play-off.
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. The women's event was won by China in 2015 and by Hong Kong in 2017. The men's events in 2016 and 2018 (both featuring the Hong Kong Dragons – a side representing Hong Kong's Chinese community – instead of their senior national team) had been won by South Korea and Japan, respectively. The 2019 edition was the first to be granted official T20I status after the International Cricket Council (ICC) had granted T20I status to matches between all of its members from 1 July 2018 (women's teams) and 1 January 2019 (men's teams).
China defeated Hong Kong in the final by 14 runs to claim the title. Chinese batter Sun Meng Yao contributed nearly half of her team's runs with an innings of 49*.

## Squads

| China | Hong Kong | Japan | South Korea |
| Huang Zhuo (c) Zhang Chan Li Haoye Liu Jie Wu Juan Han Lili Zhang Mei Zi Mei Wang Meng Fengfeng Song Zhang Xiangxue Chen Xinyu Sun Meng Yao Caiyun Zhou | Kary Chan (c) Maryam Bibi Betty Chan Dorothea Chan Hiu Ying Cheung Yasmin Daswani Mariko Hill Emma Lai Bella Poon Shanzeen Shahzad Alison Siu Pull To Ruchitha Venkatesh Mehreen Yousaf | Mai Yanagida (c) Rio Endo Kiyo Fujikawa Ayaka Kanada Ruan Kanai Miho Kanno Akari Kano Akari Kitayama Shizuka Miyaji Kasumi Nanno Erika Oda Madoka Shiraishi Kotone Taniguchi Nao Tokizawa | Seungmin Song (c) Mina Baek Seri Chang Kang Choi Seohee Kim Sinae Kim Su Jin Kim Haliam Kwon Hee Jung Lee Hyejin Park Jiyeon Park Jiyeon Park Jr. |

## Round-robin
### Points table

| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR | Status |
| China | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +1.768 | Advanced to the final |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +0.559 | Advanced to the final |
| Japan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.140 | Advanced to the 3rd place play-off |
| South Korea (H) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –2.167 | Advanced to the 3rd place play-off |

### Matches

* 19 September 2019 09:30 Scorecard
| Japan 97/7 (20 overs) | v | South Korea 85/7 (20 overs) |
| Ayaka Kanada 29* (35) Hyejin Park 2/14 (2 overs) | | Mina Baek 28* (46) Mai Yanagida 2/11 (4 overs) |
* Japan won by 12 runs Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon Umpires: Shahid Gill (Kor) and Ryu Roni (Kor) Player of the match: Shizuka Miyaji (Jpn)
* South Korea won the toss and elected to field.
* Kiyo Fujikawa (Jpn) made her WT20I debut.
* 19 September 2019 14:00 Scorecard
| Hong Kong 84/5 (20 overs) | v | China 79 (19.3 overs) |
| Yasmin Daswani 20 (37) Li Haoye 1/17 (4 overs) | | Huang Zhou 21 (36) Kary Chan 5/7 (3.3 overs) |
* Hong Kong won by 5 runs Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon Umpires: Shahid Gill (Kor) and Ryu Roni (Kor) Player of the match: Kary Chan (HK)
* Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field.
* Sun Meng Yao (Chn) made her WT20I debut.
* Kary Chan (HK) took her first hat-trick in WT20Is.
* 20 September 2019 09:30 Scorecard
| Hong Kong 91 (19.5 overs) | v | Japan 92/8 (18.5 overs) |
| Ruchitha Venkatesh 25 (40) Miho Kanno 2/14 (4 overs) | | Nao Tokizawa 22 (34) Kary Chan 3/7 (3 overs) |
* Japan won by 2 wickets Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon Umpires: Shahid Gill (Kor) and Ryu Roni (Kor) Player of the match: Nao Tokizawa (Jpn)
* Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field.
* 20 September 2019 14:00 Scorecard
| China 132/6 (20 overs) | v | South Korea 51 (19.5 overs) |
| Zhang Mei 35 (42) Mina Baek 2/21 (4 overs) | | Kang Choi 14 (32) Fengfeng Song 4/7 (2.5 overs) |
* China won by 81 runs Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon Umpires: Shahid Gill (Kor) and Ryu Roni (Kor) Player of the match: Fengfeng Song (Chn)
* South Korea won the toss and elected to field.
* 21 September 2019 09:30 Scorecard
| Hong Kong 120/5 (20 overs) | v | South Korea 83/6 (20 overs) |
| Mariko Hill 43* (34) Seungmin Song 1/10 (4 overs) | | Sinae Kim 25 (60) Ruchitha Venkatesh 2/18 (4 overs) |
* Hong Kong won by 37 runs Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon Umpires: Shahid Gill (Kor) and Ryu Roni (Kor) Player of the match: Mariko Hill (HK)
* South Korea won the toss and elected to field.
* 21 September 2019 14:00 Scorecard
| Japan 67 (19.3 overs) | v | China 68/5 (14.2 overs) |
| Nao Tokizawa 28 (34) Wu Juan 3/5 (4 overs) | | Caiyun Zhou 18 (22) Mai Yanagida 2/14 (4 overs) |
* China won by 5 wickets Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon Umpires: Shahid Gill (Kor) and Ryu Roni (Kor) Player of the match: Wu Juan (Chn)
* Japan won the toss and elected to bat.

## Play-offs
### Third-place play-off

* 22 September 2019 14:00 Scorecard
| Japan 129/6 (20 overs) | v | South Korea 97/8 (20 overs) |
| Shizuka Miyaji 47 (44) Mina Baek 4/17 (4 overs) | | Sinae Kim 23 (44) Nao Tokizawa 3/6 (4 overs) |
* Japan won by 32 runs Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon Player of the match: Shizuka Miyaji (Jpn)
* South Korea won the toss and elected to field.

### Final

* 22 September 2019 09:30 Scorecard
| China 104/4 (20 overs) | v | Hong Kong 90/9 (20 overs) |
| Sun Meng Yao 49* (59) Betty Chan 2/14 (4 overs) | | Kary Chan 21 (20) Liu Jie 3/17 (4 overs) |
* China won by 14 runs Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon Player of the match: Sun Meng Yao (Chn)
* Hong Kong won the toss and elected to field.