Follow UsIn a historic achievement, Samoa Women have qualified for the ICC Women's Under-19 T20 World Cup for the first time in their history. In fact, this is the first time any Samoa team - men or women - at any level have made it to a World Cup.
Samoa topped the four-team U19 Women's East Asia-Pacific Qualifier to book their tickets to the mega event next year, co-hosted by Thailand and Malaysia. In the first match of the tournament, they downed Papua New Guinea (PBG), chasing down 124. They then went on to beat hosts Indonesia in both the matches agianst them. Both games were low-scoring thrillers.
In the first game agianst Indonesia, Samoa chased down 72 with two wickets to spare, while in their second game, they bowled their opponents out for just 73, successfully defending 81 as Silepea Plataivao claimed 6/15 (4).
Samoa suffered a minor setback when they were defeated by PNG in their second outing against them, but the latter had also dropped points against Indonesia, which meant that a win on the final day would take the Samoans through.
A hat-trick from Fiji's Mele Waqanisau rocked Samoa's chase on the final day in pursuit of 88, but Angel Sootaga came through as they chased down the target with over five overs to spare.
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