Vanuatu to host 6-nation 2019 ICC Women’s East Asia-Pacific Qualifiers

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Vanuatu will be hosting the East Asia-Pacific regional qualifiers for Women’s World Cups (2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup and 2021 ICC Women’s World Cup) from May 06th – 11th, 2019.

As announced by ICC after the conclusion of their Board and Technical Committee meetings held in Singapore in Oct 2018, the regional qualifiers in 2019 will determine the pathway towards the global qualifiers for both T20 and 50-overs World Cups. There will not be separate regional qualifiers for 50-overs World Cup. The regional qualifiers will be staged in the T20 format across all five regions (Africa, Asia, Americas, Europe and East Asia-Pacific).

Women’s squads from Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Samoa, Fiji, Indonesia & Japan will be competing in the East Asia-Pacific qualifiers, from which the top nation will join Ireland and Bangladesh in the Global Qualifiers for both the World Cup’s (20-overs & 50-overs). All matches in the qualifiers will carry official T20I status and points will be counted towards the Global Women’s T20I Team rankings.

The 50-overs Global Qualifiers will also see the bottom 3 team’s from the ongoing ICC Women’s Championships 2017-2020 join the regional qualifiers and Ireland/Bangladesh. While Papua New Guinea made their Women’s T20I team debut’s during the 2018 Women’s World T20 Global qualifiers held in Netherlands, Indonesia made their debut in the recently concluded Thailand Women’s T20 Smash tournament held in Jan 2019. Vanuatu, Samoa, Fiji & Japan will be making their T20I debut in the 2019 East Asia-Pacific qualifiers.

ICC Women’s T20 World Cup EAP Qualifier Schedule

06th May 2019: PNG Women vs Vanuatu Women (Scorecard) ; Japan Women vs Indonesia Women (Scorecard) ; Indonesia Women vs PNG Women (Scorecard) ; Fiji Women vs Samoa Women (Scorecard)

07th May 2019: Japan Women vs Samoa Women (Scorecard) ; Fiji Women vs PNG Women (Scorecard) ; Indonesia Women vs Samoa Women (Scorecard) ; Vanuatu Women vs Fiji Women (Scorecard)

09th May 2019: Samoa Women vs Vanuatu Women (Scorecard) ; Fiji Women vs Japan Women (Scorecard) ; PNG Women vs Japan Women (Scorecard) ; Vanuatu Women vs Indonesia Women (Scorecard)

10th May 2019: Fiji Women vs Indonesia Women (Scorecard) ; Vanuatu Women vs Japan Women (Scorecard) ; PNG Women vs Samoa Women (Scorecard)

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