| 2017 Women's East Asia Cup | |
| Fromdate: | 21 |
| Todate: | 24 September 2017 |
| Administrator: | Hong Kong Cricket Association |
| Cricket Format: | Twenty20 |
| Host: |  Hong Kong |
| Count: | 1 |
| Participants: | 4 |
| Matches: | 8 |
| Most Runs: | Yasmin Daswani (179) |
| Most Wickets: |  Etsuko Kobayashi (6) |
| Previous Year: | 2015 |
| Previous Tournament: | 2015 Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup |
| Next Year: | 2019 |
| Next Tournament: | 2019 Women's Twenty20 East Asia Cup |
The 2017 Women's East Asia Cup was a Twenty20 (T20) cricket tournament, which was held in Hong Kong in September 2017.[1] The venues for the round-robin stage matches were the Hong Kong Cricket Club in Wong Nai, and the Mission Road Ground in Mong Kok. The tournament was completed with the final and third-place play-off, which were played at the Kowloon Cricket Club.[2]
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.[3] China were the defending women's champions, having won the inaugural edition in 2015 at the Yeonhui Cricket Ground in Incheon, South Korea.[4] South Korea had won the inaugural men's edition in 2016.[5] The matches did not have Twenty20 International status.
Hong Kong defeated Japan in a close contest in the final on 24 September 2017 to win the Women's East Asia Cup for the first time.
| Team[10] | Status | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (H) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | +4.450 | Advanced to the final |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | +0.470 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | –2.525 | Advanced to the 3rd place play-off | |
| 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | –2.603 |
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