Cricket at the 2015 Pacific Games – Women's tournament
| Dates | 6 – 11 July 2015 |
|---|---|
| Administrator(s) | Pacific Games Council |
| Cricket format | 20-over |
| Tournament format(s) | Group stage, playoffs |
| Host(s) |
 PNG
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| Champions |
 Samoa (1st title) |
| Participants | 6 |
| Matches played | 19 |
A women's 20-over cricket tournament at the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, was held from 6 to 11 July 2015. Played at Amini Park and the Colts Cricket Ground, it will be followed by the men's tournament at the same venues the following week.
Six teams participated in the tournament, two more than in the men's version – at earlier editions of the Pacific Games (previously known as the South Pacific Games), no women's tournament was played. Samoa defeated Papua New Guinea by three runs in the final to win the gold medal, becoming only the second country (after Papua New Guinea) to win a Pacific Games gold medal in cricket. Fiji defeated Vanuatu in a play-off for the bronze medal.
The tournament also served as part of the qualification process for the 2018 World Twenty20 in the West Indies, with the top two teams joining Japan in a tri-series in 2016 to decide the ICC East Asia-Pacific region's representative at the World Twenty20 Qualifier in 2017. Because New Caledonia is not an ICC member, a separate system was used to decide which two teams proceeded. However, the separate system produced the same teams as the regular table.
Papua New Guinea and Samoa prepared for the tournament by playing a series in Apia, with PNG also playing matches against the men's under-19 team. As part of an arrangement with ICC East Asia-Pacific, Australia's Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) toured both Fiji and Vanuatu in May 2015, fielding a mixed men's and women's team in matches against the Fiji and Vanuatu women's national teams. Earlier, in April, Vanuatu had hosted New Caledonia.
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