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Cricket at the 2019 Pacific Games – Men's tournament

Men's cricket at the 2019 Pacific Games
Venue	Tuanaimato Cricket Oval Ground
Date	8 July 2019 (2019-07-08) – 13 July 2019 (2019-07-13)
Nations	4
Medalists
Papua New Guinea (7th title)    Vanuatu    Samoa
← 2015

A men's Twenty20 cricket tournament at the 2019 Pacific GamesinApia, Samoa, was held from 8 to 13 July 2019 at the Faleata Oval Grounds.^[1][2] Following the International Cricket Council's decision to grant T20I status to all matches played between Associate Members after 1 January 2019, matches were eligible for Twenty20 International (T20I) status subject to both teams being members of the ICC and players passing eligibility criteria.^[3]

The team's involved in the men's tournament were the host nation Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Tonga and the Cook Islands were originally included, but withdrew and were replaced by New Caledonia.^[4] Matches involving New Caledonia did not have T20I status as they were not an Associate Member of the ICC.^[5]

In the opening match of the tournament, 49-year old Ofisa Tonu'u played for Samoa against Papua New Guinea.^[6] Tonu'u had previously played rugby union for New Zealand in the 1990s.^[7][8]

Papua New Guinea topped the group stage after winning all six of their matches, and were joined in the gold medal match by Vanuatu who finished ahead of Samoa on net run rate. Papua New Guinea won the gold medal after defeating Vanuatu by 32 runs in the final.^[9]

Round-robin stage[edit]

Points table[edit]

Team v t e	P	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
Papua New Guinea	6	6	0	0	0	12
Vanuatu	6	3	3	0	0	6
Samoa (H)	6	3	3	0	0	6
New Caledonia	6	0	6	0	0	0

(H) Host

•   advanced to the gold medal match
•   advanced to the bronze medal match

Matches[edit]

• Papua New Guinea won the toss and elected to field.
• Papua New Guinea were set a revised target of 24 runs from 5 overs due to rain.
• James Baker, Daniel Burgess, Sean Cotter, Lester Evile, Benjamin Mailata, Andrew Michael, Dom Michael, Faasao Mulivai, Samson Sola, Saumani Tiai, Ofisa Tonu'u (Sam) and Simon Atai (PNG) all made their T20I debuts.

• Vanuatu won the toss and elected to field.

• Papua New Guinea won the toss and elected to field.
• Patrick Matautaava (Van) made his T20I debut.
• Damien Ravu became the first bowler for Papua New Guinea to take a five-wicket haul in T20Is.
• Nalin Nipiko became the first bowler for Vanuatu to take a five-wicket haul in T20Is.

• Samoa won the toss and elected to field.

• Vanuatu won the toss and elected to field.

• Papua New Guinea won the toss and elected to field.

• Samoa won the toss and elected to field.

• Vanuatu won the toss and elected to field.
• Joshua Rasu (Van) took his first five-wicket haul in T20Is.

Finals[edit]

Bronze medal match[edit]

Gold medal match[edit]

• Vanuatu won the toss and elected to field.
• Norman Vanua (PNG) took his first five-wicket haul in T20Is.

See also[edit]

• Cricket at the 2019 Pacific Games – Women's tournament

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo