2006 ICC EAP Cricket Trophy

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The 2006 ICC EAP Cricket Trophy was held in Brisbane, Australia from June 27-July 2, 2006, functioning as the East Asia-Pacific regional final for the 2011 Cricket World Cup and EAP qualification tournament for the inaugural ICC World Cricket League, Division 3. Hosted by Queensland Cricket, the 50-over competition was held at the Peter Burge Oval of the Redlands Cricket Club, located on Wellington Point in southeast Brisbane.

Affiliate nation Cook Islands, plus Associates Japan and Fiji made up the three-team field. Japan and Cook Islands advanced from the six-team 2005 ICC EAP Cricket Cup for fledgling cricketing nations. Fiji were inserted into the latter stage of regional qualifying rather than playing in the EAP Cricket Cup because they were the second-best team (and only other Associate) in the region during 2007 World Cup qualifying. (In fact, fellow EAP region Associate Papua New Guinea defeated Fiji in the WCQS Division 2 repechage competition, earning the final berth into the 2005 ICC Trophy.)

Each team faced the others twice in a double round-robin format, for a total of six matches and four per team. Fiji rolled to easy victories, racking up the maximum of 8 points, while the Japanese and the Cooks split their matches to finish with one win apiece. (Cook Islands finished second based on a higher net run rate.) The closest match was the rain-shortened third match where Japan, chasing 74, rallied from a 5-over total of 14/3 to defeat the Cook Islands on the Duckworth-Lewis method.

Fiji advanced as the East Asia-Pacific region representative in Division 3 of the 2007 World Cricket League.

1 2011 World Cup implications
2 Points table
3 External links
4 References

[edit] 2011 World Cup implications

The three-team tournament determined the East Asia-Pacific representative for Division 3 of the 2007 World Cricket League. (One representative from each ICC Region qualifies for Division 3, the bottom division of the WCL, which will begin play in the early part of the year.)

Qualification for the 2011 Cricket World Cup was and is the ultimate goal of regional and WCL matches, since Division 3 teams can gain promotion up to 2009's World Cup qualifying tournament (or "Division 1") through WCL Division 2. The top teams from Division 2 advance to the 2009 qualifier. Lower teams in Division 2 will return to Division 3 in 2009 without having to advance through the 2008 regional qualifers to earn a third-division slot.

WCL play is the primary route into the 2011 Cup for non-Test playing nations. (The 2009 WCQ tournament replaces the 2005 ICC Trophy, the qualifying system for the 2007 version, as the pathway to the World Cup.)

[edit] Points table

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	NRR
Fiji	8	4	4	0	1.03
Cook Islands	2	4	1	3	-0.33
Japan	2	4	1	3	-0.63

[edit] Match 1: Fiji vs. Japan (27 June)


Japan 188/7 (50 overs)	vs	Fiji 189/2 (42 overs)	Fiji won by 8 wickets ^[1] Peter Burge Oval, Brisbane, Australia Umpires: L Oala (PNG) and G Clelland (VAN) Man of the Match: T Kida (FIJ)
Munir Ahmad 53 (70) J Mateyawa 3/25	scorecard	N Maxwell 59* (113) N Miyaji 1/36

[edit] Match 2: Fiji vs. Cook Islands (28 June)


Cook Islands 106 All out (40 overs)	vs	Fiji 108/5 (26 overs)	Fiji won by 5 wickets^[2] Peter Burge Oval, Brisbane, Australia Umpires: T Cooper (FIJ) and L Oala (PNG) Man of the Match: n/a (n/a)
M Marurai 46 (67) K Tavo 3/21	scorecard	J Rika 41 (94) J Joe 2/34

[edit] Match 3: Japan vs. Cook Islands (29 June)


Cook Islands 74 All out (30 overs)	vs	Japan 73/8 (37 overs)	Japan won by 2 wickets (DL)^[3] Peter Burge Oval, Brisbane, Australia Umpires: T Cooper (FIJ) and G Clelland (VAN) Man of the Match: n/a (n/a)
D Tare 21* (27) G Beath 4/15	scorecard	M Kobayashi 16 (37) M Marurai 3/16

[edit] Match 4: Fiji vs. Japan (30 June)


Fiji 165 All out (48 overs)	vs	Japan 83 All out (41 overs)	Fiji won by 82 runs^[4] Peter Burge Oval, Brisbane, Australia Umpires: L Oala (PNG) and T Cooper (FIJ) Man of the Match: n/a (n/a)
K Tavo 34* (32) G Beath 3/22	scorecard	P Giles-Jones 23 (28) S Draunivudi 3/12

[edit] Match 5: Fiji vs. Cook Islands (1 July)


Cook Islands 115 All out (41 overs)	vs	Fiji 116/9 (47 overs)	Fiji won by 1 wicket^[5] Peter Burge Oval, Brisbane, Australia Umpires: G Clelland (VAN) and L Oala (PNG) Man of the Match: J Dabea (FIJ)
T Eliaba 48 (53) S Draunivudi 4/16	scorecard	J Dabea 43* (130) T Eliaba 2/18

[edit] Match 6: Cook Islands vs. Japan (2 July)


Cook Islands 168 All out (43 overs)	vs	Japan 142 All out (47 overs)	Cook Islands won by 26 runs^[6] Peter Burge Oval, Brisbane, Australia Umpires: T Cooper (FIJ) and G Clelland (VAN) Man of the Match: n/a (n/a)
C Brown 43 (36) G Beath 4/19	scorecard	P Giles-Jones 36* (53) C Brown 3/9