2022 Women's T20I Pacific Cup

2022 Women's Pacific Cup
Dates3 – 6 October 2022
Administrator(s)Vanuatu Cricket Association
Cricket formatWomen's Twenty20 International
Tournament format(s)Double round-robin
Host(s) Vanuatu
Champions Papua New Guinea (1st title)
Runners-up Vanuatu
Participants4
Matches12
Player of the seriesPapua New Guinea Naoani Vare
Most runsPapua New Guinea Naoani Vare (225)
Most wicketsPapua New Guinea Isabel Toua (11)
2024

The 2022 Women's T20I Pacific Cup was a women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) cricket tournament that took place in Port Vila, Vanuatu, from 3 to 6 October 2022.[1] It was the inaugural edition of the Women's T20I Pacific Cup. The participants were the women's national sides of Vanuatu, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Samoa.[2][3] Papua New Guinea had entered the event after recently competing in the 2022 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier in Abu Dhabi, but the other three teams had not played an international fixture since the Pacific Games cricket tournament in July 2019.[4]

Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu each won both of their matches on the opening day of the tournament.[5] Papua New Guinea again won twice on the second day of the event, while Samoa avenged their opening day loss to the hosts by picking up two wins on the day.[6] A 10-wicket win against Samoa on the final day saw Papua New Guinea secure top spot in the table, before the last two games were abandoned due to rain.[7]

  1. ^ "Inaugural edition of women's Pacific Cup T20 tournament to take place in October 2022". Czarsportz. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Stalled by the pandemic, first ever Women's Pacific Cricket Cup all set to go in Vanuatu". ABC. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  3. ^ @vanuatu_cricket (27 September 2022). "We are delighted to announce the Inaugural "Pacific Cup" will be held in Vanuatu with 4 T20I Women's teams taking part from Oct 3-6" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. ^ "Inaugural Women's Pacific Cup 2022 to be played from 3rd to 6th October in Vanuatu". Female Cricket. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Vanuatu and PNG with twin wins after Pacific Cup day one". Vanuatu Cricket. 3 October 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  6. ^ "PNG continue unbeaten run on Day 2 as Samoa shock Vanuatu in Pacific Cup". Vanuatu Cricket. 5 October 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  7. ^ "Undefeated PNG crowned Pacific Cup champions as Vanuatu claim runners-up". Vanuatu Cricket. 7 October 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2022.