This year Japan will be participating in the 2016 ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier – East Asia Pacific Tournament, which will be hosted by\u00a0Samoa and run from (Thursday) July 15th to (Saturday) July 23rd.<\/p>\n
The three countries Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Japan, and Cricket Without Boarders (CWOB) of Australia will be taking part in the tournament .<\/p>\n
The Japan Women\u2019s national\u00a0team will head to Samoa in high spirits and with the hope of improving on their second place finish two years ago. The following is the team list who will by playing in\u00a0Samoa.<\/p>\n \u25c6Japan Women’s National Team\u25c6<\/span><\/p>\n Mai Yanagiada<\/span>\uff08Wyverns Cricket Club \/ C\uff09 *C: Captain This year Japan will be participating in the 2016 ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier – East Asia Pacific Tournament, which will be hosted by\u00a0Samoa and run from (Thursday) July 15th…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-articles","category-womens-national-team","region-east-kanto-rca","region-hokkaido-rca","region-hokushinetsu-rca","region-kyushu-rca","region-north-kanto-rca","region-south-kanto-rca","region-tohoku-rca","region-tokai-rca","region-west-kanto-rca","region-kansai-rca"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nDespite the retirements of a handful of senior players in 2014, there remains a lot of experience within the group as well as a handful of fresh faces as well.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Etsuko Kobayashi\uff08Wyverns Cricket Club \/ VC\uff09
\n<\/span>Ayako Nakayama\uff08Wyverns Cricket Club \/ VC\uff09
\nMiho Asama\uff08Wyverns Cricket Club\uff09
\nRio Endo\uff08Wyverns Cricket Club \/ N\uff09
\nKanae Ishimoto \uff08Fuji Far East Cricket Club\uff09<\/span>
\n<\/span>Etsuko Kobayashi\uff08Wyverns Cricket Club\uff09
\n<\/span>Miho Kanno\uff08Adore Cricket Club\uff09
\nShizuka Miyaji<\/span>\uff08Fuji Far East Cricket Club\uff09
\nKaoruko Nishida\uff08Wyverns Cricket Club\uff09<\/span>
\n<\/span>Kurimi Ota\uff08CATS\u00a0Cricket Club\uff09<\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span>Ayana Suzuki\uff08Chuo University Cricket Club \/ N\uff09<\/span>
\n<\/span>Madoka Shiraishi\uff08Wyverns Cricket Club\uff09
\n<\/span>Aki Umetani<\/span>\uff08Uenomiya Cricket Club\uff09
\nEri Yamaguchi\uff08Fuji Far East Cricket Club\uff09<\/span><\/p>\n
\n**VC:\u00a0Vice Captain
\n***N: Players that will be representing Japan for the first time
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