2025 Toyota Australian Country Cricket Championships Schedule (Women)

ICC EAP: Vicky Ara’a (Captain – Papua New Guinea), Nanda Sakarini (Captain – Indonesia), Naomi Vare (Papua New Guinea), Ahilya Chandel (Japan), Seri Chang (South Korea), Wesika Ratna Dewi (Indonesia), Kevau Frank (Papua New Guinea), Hinase Goto (Japan), Zamera Ikiua (Cook Islands), Mahuta Jayphert (Papua New Guinea), Erani Pokana (Papua New Guinea), Sofia Samuels (Cook Islands), Axel Bobbi Yerro Smith (Philippines), Seika Sumi (Japan) and Tori Putri Suwandewi (Indonesia)

04th January 2025: ICC East Asia-Pacific vs Victoria Country (T20 – Scorecard) ; South Australia Country vs ICC East Asia-Pacific (T20 – Scorecard)

05th January 2025: ICC East Asia-Pacific vs Queensland Country (T20 – Scorecard) ; Western Australia Country vs ICC East Asia-Pacific (T20 – Scorecard)

07th January 2025: ICC East Asia-Pacific vs New South Wales Country (T20 – Scorecard) ; Victoria vs ICC East Asia-Pacific Country (T20 – Scorecard)

08th January 2025: ICC East Asia-Pacific vs South Australia Country (T20 – Scorecard) ; Queensland Country vs ICC East Asia-Pacific (T20 – Scorecard)

09th January 2025: ICC East Asia-Pacific vs Western Australia Country (T20 – Scorecard) ; New South Wales Country vs ICC East Asia-Pacific (T20 – Scorecard)

10th January 2025: ICC East Asia-Pacific vs Western Australia – 5th/6th (Scorecard)

The Papua New Guinea Women’s National team (PNG Lewas) are the Defending champions from the previously held edition in 2021/2022, and are going to compete again this year in the competition against the likes of New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, Australian capital Territory (ACT), Queensland and South Australia. Seven (7) members of the PNG Lewas squad are currently based in Australia, where they are playing club-level competitions as part of the exchange program in place in collaboration for PacificAus Sports.

2022/2023 Toyota ACCC Men’s Division Schedule

Papua New Guinea Women Squad: Kaia Arua, Melanie Ani, Vicky Ara’a, Hollan Doriga, Kevau Frank, Sibona Jimmy, Ravini Oa, Erani Pokana, Tanya Ruma, Pauke Siaka, Brenda Tau, Henao Thomas, Geua Tom, Isabel Toua and Naoni Vare

2022/2023 Toyota ACCC Women’s Division Schedule

PNG players have participated in the previous editions of the tournament as part of the ICC East Asia-Pacific combined team (comprising of players from Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Indonesia and Japan) and have also won the title in the 2020 edition of the tournament held in Toowoomba, where they won against South Australia Country team in the final.

PNG Lewas Squad

Melanie Ani, Vicky Ara’a, Kaia Arua, Holland Doriga, Kevau Frank, Veru Kila Frank, Sibony Lucy Jimmy, Ravini Oa, Tanya Ruma, Pauke Siaka, Brenda Tau, Henao Thomas, Mairi Tom, Isabel Toua and Naoani Vare

2021/2022 Toyota Australia Country Championships (Women’s) Schedule (TBA)

06th April 2022: Papua New Guinea Women vs New South Wales Country (T20 – Scorecard) ; Papua New Guinea Women vs Cricket ACT (T20 – Scorecard)

07th April 2022: Papua New Guinea Women vs New South Wales Country (T20 – Scorecard) ; Papua New Guinea Women vs Queensland Country (T20 – Scorecard)

08th April 2022: Papua New Guinea Women vs Cricket ACT (50-overs – Scorecard)

09th April 2022: Papua New Guinea Women vs Cricket ACT (T20 – Scorecard) ; Papua New Guinea Women vs Queensland Country (T20 – Scorecard)

10th April 2022: Papua New Guinea Women vs New South Wales Country (50-overs – Scorecard)

The EAP squad defeated South Australia in the final played on 11th Jan 2020, after winning their semifinal game against Queensland on 10th Jan 2020. The EAP squad earlier fininshed on top of the points table after the group stage format, winning 5 of their 7 completed games, with 2 wins over Western Australia and win each against South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales. The team lost both their group stage fixtures against Victoria.

The full match schedule and results can be accessed on CountryCHamps website.

Papua New Guinea’s Tanya Ruma (247 runs in 9 matches), Brenda Tau (145 runs in 8 matches), Sibona Jimmy (105 runs & 11 wickets in 9 matches), Kai’a Arua (46 runs & 12 wickets in 9 matches) were the top performers for the ICC EAP squad, while Vanuatu’s Selina Solman (32 runs & 12 wickets in 9 matches), Nasimana Navaika (7 wickets in 9 matches) and Valenta Langiatu (75 runs in 9 matches) also provided good support to the Lewas in the matches. Indonesia’s Nanda Sakarini also contributed 78 runs in 6 innings during the team’s campaign, while Tori Suwandewi (2 wickets) also played her part in the matches.

The EAP squad also featured 2 players from Japan, Akari Kitayama (43 runs in 4 innings) and Ayaka Kanada (2 wickets), for whom the experience of playing in an International tournament will help in their future endeavours with the Japanese national squad.

ICC EAP Women’s squad will be competing against women’s teams from New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and Queensland in the single round-robin format competition in the T20 format. The EAP Women’s squad consists of 7 players from Papua New Guinea and 2 players each from Vanuatu, Japan and Indonesia.

In the 2019 edition, ICC EAP Women squad finished their group campaign with three wins and as many losses to finish on 12 points. They managed to beat both NT Strike Women and New South Wales country in rounds 4 & 5, before going down against Queensland country in the final round of group stage fixtures.

Papua New Guinea’s Brenda Tau was the standout performer with the bat, accumulating 213 runs in 7 matches with an average of over 35. PNG’s Kaia Arua and Vanuatu’s Valenta Langiatu were the next highest scorers for ICC EAP squad with 96 and 93 runs in the competition. In the bowling department, PNG’s Vicky Ara’a picked up 10 wickets in 7 matches, followed by Kaia Arua (7 wickets) and Sibona Jimmy (6 wickets) in as many games.

ICC EAP Women’s Squad Schedule in 2019 Toyota ACCC (all timings local):

05th Jan 2020: East Asia Pacific vs Western Australia Country @Downlands College (Main Oval) @9:00AM

06th Jan 2019: East Asia Pacific vs South Australia Country @Highfields Sports Park (Oval 2) @9:00AM

06th Jan 2019: East Asia Pacific vs Queensland Country @Highfields Sports Park (Oval 2) @2:30PM

07th Jan 2019: East Asia Pacific vs New South Wales Country @Captain Cook Reserve (Captain Cook Reserve – Oval 7) @9:00AM

07th Jan 2019: East Asia Pacific vs Victoria Country @Harristown Park @9:00am

ICC East Asia-Pacific Women Squad

Ayaka Kanada (Japan), Akari Kitayama (Japan), Tanya Ruma (Papua New Guinea), Nasimana Navaika (Vanuatu), Natasha Ambo (Papua New Guinea), Kaia Arua (Papua New Guinea), Selina Solman (Vanuatu), Sibona Jimmy (Papua New Guinea), Brenda Tau (Papua New Guinea), Vicky Ara’a (Papua New Guinea), Valenta Langiatu (Vanuatu), Ni Putu Ayu Nanda Sakarini (Indonesia) & Ni Made Putri Suwandewi (Indonesia)

ICC EAP Women squad finished their group campaign with three wins and as many losses to finish on 12 points. They managed to beat both NT Strike Women and New South Wales country in rounds 4 & 5, before going down against Queensland country in the final round of group stage fixtures.

Papua New Guinea’s Brenda Tau was the standout performer with the bat, accumulating 213 runs in 7 matches with an average of over 35. PNG’s Kaia Arua and Vanuatu’s Valenta Langiatu were the next highest scorers for ICC EAP squad with 96 and 93 runs in the competition.

In the bowling department, PNG’s Vicky Ara’a picked up 10 wickets in 7 matches, followed by Kaia Arua (7 wickets) and Sibona Jimmy (6 wickets) in as many games.

Brief Scores:

ICC East Asia-Pacific Women 136/6 in 20 overs (Brenda Tau 52 n.o, Kira Churchland 3/10, Sally Moylan 1/23) beat NT Strike Women 81/5 in 20 overs (Melissa Campbell 42 n.o, Vicky Ara’a 3/18, Sibona Jimmy 1/12, Naoani Vare 1/11) by 55 runs

New South Wales Country Women 88/9 in 20 overs (Synetta Manns 23, Kirsten Smith 18, Kaia Arua 2/14, Veru Frank 1/17, Sibona Jimmy 1/10, Mairi Tom 1/10) lost to ICC East Asia-Pacific Women 89/3 in 17.4 overs (Brenda Tau 34 n.o, Valenta Langiatu 23, Jaclyn Vickery 3/23) by 7 wickets

ICC East Asia-Pacific Women 102/9 in 20 overs (Kaia Arua 26, Brenda Tau 25, Lexie Muller 4/15, Eliza Flynn 2/15, Lauren Shackleton 1/10, Amy Riddell 1/15) lost to Queensland Country Women 103/3 in 19 overs (Chelsea Gan 34 n.o, Tess Cooper 25, Stephanie Baldwin 17, Vicky Ara’a 1/13, Kaia Arua 1/27) by 7 wickets

Preliminary Final: ICC East Asia-Pacific Women 101/9 in 20 overs (Brenda Tau 29, Kaia Arua 26 n.o, Emma Faint 2/21, Chloe Frick 2/9, Emma Hartigan 2/11, Sharni Tansell 1/16) tied with South Australia Country Women 101/4 in 20 overs (Emma Faint 43 n.o, Sibona Jimmy 1/10, Mairi Tom 1/13, Kaia Arua 1/17) – ICC East Asia-Pacific (10/2) won super over against South Australia Country (9/1)

Although the team have lost 2 games in 3 played so far, they have run their opponents close in 2 games so far (winning one of them against Western Australia Country). The team have lost their other two matches against Victoria Country and South Australia Country respectively.

The team still have three more matches to go in the single round-robin format competition and need to win the transmigration matches to advance to the semifinal stage of the tournament. The squad is mostly made up with Papua New Guinea players with representation from Vanuatu (Valenta Langiatu & Alvina Chilia) , Fiji (Ruci Kaiwai) and Japan (Nao Tokizawa) as well.

Brief Scores:

South Australia Country 98/5 in 20 overs (Kylie Rattray 32 n.o, Rebecca Cady 24, Sibona Jimmy 2/19, Vicky Ara’a 1/15, Mairi Tom 1/21) beat ICC East Asia-Pacific 62 all out in 17 overs (Emma Faint 4/8, Sarah-Jane Jameson 1/9, Jessica O’Reilly 1/3, Sharni Tansell 1/16) by 36 runs

ICC East Asia-Pacific 104/7 in 20 overs (Brenda Tau 36, Valenta Langiatu 28, Melinda Knox 3/10, Amy Edgar 2/17) beat Western Australia Country 80/9 in 20 overs (Amy Edgar 28, Janelle Phillips 14 n.o, Vicky Ara’a 3/14, Sibona Jimmy 1/13, Kaia Arua 1/13, Ruci Kaiwai 1/7, Veru Frank 1/13) by 24 runs

ICC East Asia-Pacific 106/7 in 20 overs (Brenda Tau 31, Sibona Jimmy 20, Kaia Arua 16 n.o, Valenta Langiatu 12, Emma Gallagher 3/15, Amy Yates 2/10) lost to Victoria Country 110/9 in 20 overs (Amy Yates 35, Parry Jenkins 19, Courtney Neale 10 n.o, Tanya Ruma 3/8, Ruci Kaiwai 1/8, Kaia Arua 1/11, Veru Frank 1/16) by 1 wicket

Unlike the 2018 edition held in Geraldton, only the Women’s squad of ICC EAP will be taking part in 2019 in the ACCC. The Men’s squad, which produced it’s best result in the championships in 2018, will not be participating.

ICC EAP Women’s squad will be competing against Northern Territory Cricket, New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and Queensland in the single round-robin format competition in the T20 format. The squad is mostly made up of players from Papua New Guinea, Japan and Vanuatu with few from other countries like Fiji or Samoa.

ICC EAP Women’s Squad Schedule in 2019 Toyota ACCC (all timings local):

05th Jan 2019: vs South Australia Country @Tallygaroopna Recreation Reserve @3:30pm

06th Jan 2019: vs Western Australia Country @Katandra Recreation Reserve @9:00am

07th Jan 2019: vs Victoria Country @VE Vibert Reserve (Vibert Reserve) @9:00am

08th Jan 2019: vs NT Strike @VE Vibert Reserve (Vibert number 2) @9:00am

09th Jan 2019: vs New South Wales Country @Mooroopna Recreation Reserve (Mooroopna Main Oval) @10:00am

09th Jan 2019: vs Queensland Country @Mooroopna Recreation Reserve (John Gray Oval) @3:30am

South Australia won the toss and decided to bat first and manged to post 229/9 in their 50 overs with Peter Wilson top-scoring with 64 runs from 102 deliveries. Useful knocks of 42 runs each from Brodie O’Dea and Dion Stratford  provided support to Wilson during the middle overs of the innings. Josh Pengelley (27 off 20) provided some late fireworks before EAP captain Patrick Matautaava picked up 3 wickets in a single over during the final overst to restrict South Australia from adding more runs to their total.

Matautaava (3/47) and Wesley Viralilu (3/26) were the pick of the bowlers for ICC EAP team with Jelany Chilia, Damian Ravu and Nalin Nipiko picking up a wicket apiece.

ICC EAP lost Joshua Rasu and Nalin Nipiko without contributing much but opener Jason Kila provided a good start at the other end with 38 runs from 46 deliveries before he was dismissed. Matautaava (21 off 19) didn’t last long either as EAP team were in a spot of bother at 84/4 at one stage.

Dogodo Bau (74 n.o off 99) once again produced a brilliant knock and along with Doriga Kipling (41 off 46), combined for a 80 runs partnership for the 5th wicket before EAP suffered 2 losses in the same over with Kipling and Ronald Tari getting out to bowling of Sean Nottle (2/39).

Damian Ravu (33 n.o off 27) played a quickfire innings and stayed unbeaten along with Dogodo Bau to take ICC EAP team to victory in the 46th over scoring 230 runs to win the match by 4 wickets.

ICC EAP team have so far won 5 matches (3 T20 and 2 50-overs) in the Championships so far, this being their best ever performance till date in the event, with more to come hopefully. They have now a realistic chance of reaching the final if they can continue their winning momentum in the next couple of rounds.