Vanuatu women's national cricket team
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| Association | Vanuatu Cricket Association |
|---|---|
| Personnel | |
| Captain | Marcelina Mete |
| International Cricket Council | |
| ICC status | Affiliate member (1995) Associate member (2009) |
| ICC region | East Asia-Pacific |
| Test Matches | |
| First international |
 Vanuatu vs. Fiji  (Port Vila; 11 April 2011) |
| As of 26 November 2015 | |
The Vanuatu women's national cricket team represents the Republic of Vanuatu in international women's cricket. It is organised by the game's governing body in the country, the Vanuatu Cricket Association (VCA), which is an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Having made its international debut the previous year, against Fiji, Vanuatu first participated in an international tournament at the 2012 ICC East Asia-Pacific regional qualifiers for the World Twenty20, winning two matches and placing fourth out of six teams. At the 2014 edition of the same tournament, they finished last, with only a single win (against the Cook Islands). Vanuatu's next major event is the women's tournament at the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
"Traditional cricket", similar to the kilikiti played in Samoa, has long been popular amongst Ni-Vanuatu women, but the standard version of the sport was only popularised in the late 2000s, with the backing of the Vanuatu Cricket Association (VCA) and the ICC East Asia-Pacific development programme. Vanuatu made its international debut in April 2011, hosting a tri-series against Fiji and a team from the North Coast region of the Australian state of New South Wales. In May 2012, the country hosted the 2012 East Asia-Pacific Women's Championship. The tournament was played using the Twenty20 format, with the winner progressing to the 2013 World Twenty20 Qualifier in Ireland. Vanuatu joined the three teams from the previous 2010 tournament – Japan, Papua New Guinea, and Samoa – as well as the Cook Islands and Fiji. In the round-robin stage, Vanuatu recorded wins against Fiji and the Cook Islands, finishing fourth in the table. In the third-place playoff against Samoa, they lost by eight wickets.
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