2018 Twenty20 East Asia Cup

The 2018 East Asia Cup was a Twenty20 (T20) cricket tournament, which was held in Hong Kong in September 2018.[1][2] Matches were played at the Mission Road Ground in Mong Kok and the Hong Kong Cricket Club in Wong Nai, where a round-robin series was followed by a final. Kowloon Cricket Club was originally scheduled to host the final and a third-place play-off on 16 September, but the final was moved to the previous and played at the Mission Road Ground (and the third-place match cancelled) due to the expected arrival of Typhoon Mangkhut.[1][3]

2018 East Asia Cup

Dates	13 – 15 September 2018
Administrator(s)	Hong Kong Cricket Association
Cricket format	Twenty20
Host(s)	Hong Kong
Champions	Japan (1st title)
Runners-up	Hong Kong Dragons
Participants	4
Matches played	7
Player of the series	Jason Lui
Most runs	Jason Lui (207)
Most wickets	Henry Siu (8)

The 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.[4] The women's event was won by China in 2015 and by Hong Kong in 2017.[5][6] South Korea won the inaugural men's edition in 2016.[7] Hong Kong were represented by the Hong Kong Dragons side, a team representing Hong Kong's Chinese community in both the 2016 and 2018 men's events. Matches did not have Twenty20 International status.

Japan defeated the Hong Kong Dragons in the final on 15 September 2018 to win the East Asia Cup for the first time.[3][8]

Squads

China[9]	Hong Kong Dragons[10]	Japan[11]	South Korea[12]
Jiang Shu Yao (c) Zhai Dian Da Zhang Yu Fei Pei Yun Feng Shi Yu Feng Huang Junjie Wei Guo Lei Chen Liang Jiang Lu Long Tian Sen Qun Hou Rui Tian Suqing Chen Zhuo Yue Song Yulin	Li Kai Ming (c) Bobby Chan Vans Chan Arthur Chu David Fang Danny Lee Rob Lee Jason Lui Ka-U Lynn Henry Siu Nigel Sun Ken Tsang Siegfried Wai Damien Yee	Masaomi Kobayashi (c) Raheel Kano Shogo Kimura Rui Matsumura Naotsune Miyaji Wataru Miyauchi Tomoki Ota Mian Siddique Tsuyoshi Takada Kazumasa Takahashi Makoto Taniyama Souta Wada Kohei Wakita Jun Yamashita	Jun Hyunwoo (c) Kim Daeyeon AN Hyobeom Lim Jeongwook Choi Jiwon Lee Jungwan Lee Junha Park Keunyeol Khan Nasir Sung Dae Sik Park Taekwan Khan Muhammad Umair Kim Yongtae

Round-robin

Points table

Team[13]	P	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR	Status
Japan	3	3	0	0	0	6	+2.717	Advanced to the final
Hong Kong Dragons (H)	3	1	2	0	0	2	–0.653
China	3	1	2	0	0	2	–1.126
South Korea	3	1	2	0	0	2	–1.177

Matches

13 September 2018 Scorecard

China  67/4 (16 overs)	v	South Korea 72/1 (8.4 overs)
Chen Liang 17 (21) Khan Muhammad Umair 1/3 (1 over)		Kim Daeyeon 47* (34)

South Korea won by 9 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Tauseef Bukhari (HK) and Ian Thomson (HK) Player of the match: Kim Daeyeon (Kor)

• China won the toss and elected to bat.
• The match was reduced to 16 overs per side.

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13 September 2018 Scorecard

Japan  155/8 (20 overs)	v	Hong Kong Dragons 106 (19.3 overs)
Masaomi Kobayashi 52 (23) Ka-U Lynn 3/37 (4 overs)		Jason Lui 50 (39) Kazumasa Takahashi 3/2 (2 overs)

Japan won by 49 runs Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Niaz Ali (HK) and Ian Thomson (HK) Player of the match: Masaomi Kobayashi (Jpn)

• Japan won the toss and elected to bat.

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14 September 2018 Scorecard

Japan  158/6 (20 overs)	v	South Korea 74 (12.5 overs)
Makoto Taniyama 58 (46) Kim Daeyeon 3/23 (4 overs)		Park Keunyeol 21 (26) Tsuyoshi Takada 2/7 (2.5 overs)

Japan won by 84 runs Hong Kong Cricket Club, Wong Nai Umpires: Niaz Ali (HK) and Tauseef Bukhari (HK) Player of the match: Makoto Taniyama (Jpn)

• South Korea won the toss and elected to field.

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14 September 2018 Scorecard

Hong Kong Dragons  107/9 (20 overs)	v	China 112/6 (18.1 overs)
Jason Lui 54 (53) Tian Sen Qun 4/8 (2 overs)		Tian Suqing 45* (50) Henry Siu 2/15 (4 overs)

China won by 4 wickets Hong Kong Cricket Club, Wong Nai Umpires: Tauseef Bukhari (HK) and Ramasamy Venkatesh (HK) Player of the match: Tian Suqing (Chn)

• Hong Kong Dragons won the toss and elected to bat.

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15 September 2018 Scorecard

China  103/6 (20 overs)	v	Japan 107/3 (16.3 overs)
Zhang Yu Fei 56 (23) Rui Matsumura 4/9 (4 overs)		Naotsune Miyaji 28 (39) Hou Rui 1/12 (1 over)

Japan won by 7 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Tauseef Bukhari (HK) and John Prakash (HK) Player of the match: Rui Matsumura (Jpn)

• China won the toss and elected to bat.

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15 September 2018 Scorecard

South Korea  146/9 (20 overs)	v	Hong Kong Dragons 147/4 (15.5 overs)
Park Keunyeol 51 (49) Ka-U Lynn 2/12 (3 overs)		Jason Lui 84* (36) Kim Daeyeon 2/32 (3 overs)

Hong Kong Dragons won by 6 wickets Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: Tauseef Bukhari (HK) and Ramasamy Venkatesh (HK) Player of the match: Jason Lui (Hong Kong Dragons)

• South Korea won the toss and elected to bat.

Final

15 September 2018 Scorecard

Japan  160 (19.4 overs)	v	Hong Kong Dragons 74 (18.1 overs)
Tomoki Ota 49 (34) Henry Siu 4/29 (4 overs)		Jason Lui 19 (18) Tsuyoshi Takada 4/13 (4 overs)

Japan won by 86 runs Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok Umpires: John Prakash (HK) and Ramasamy Venkatesh (HK) Player of the match: Tsuyoshi Takada (Jpn)

• Japan won the toss and elected to bat.

References

1. "2018 Men's East Asia Cup". Cricket Hong Kong. 19 June 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
2. "East Asia Cup 2018". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
3. "Japan win East Asia Cup". Japan Cricket Association. 16 September 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
4. "East Asia Cup 2018". Cricket Hong Kong. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
5. "Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
6. "East Asia Cup (Women)". Japan Cricket Association. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
7. "South Korea edge Japan to win East Asia Cup cricket tournament". Inside the Games. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
8. "2018 East Asia Cup – Final". Cricket Hong Kong. 15 September 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
9. "China squad East Asia Cup 2018". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
10. "Hong Kong Dragons squad East Asia Cup 2018". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
11. "Japan squad East Asia Cup 2018". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
12. "South Korea squad East Asia Cup 2018". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
13. "East Asia Cup 2018 - Points Table". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 May 2020.

External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo