The 13 days inaugural PICC23 ended on a high after the completion of the Men’s finals between Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu on Saturday 18 March 2023. Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu played in both the men’s and women’s grand finals and PNG were ultimately crowned champions of the PICC23 T20 men’s and women’s competitions.
The standings after the competition are shown below:
Women | Men |
PNG | PNG |
Vanuatu | Vanuatu |
Samoa | Fiji |
Fiji | Samoa |
*The ANZAC Barbarians women’s and men’s teams did not play in the play-off.
One of the highlights of the PICC23 was the use of two of Australian Defence Force Cricket Frogbox systems to live-stream all matches through Cricket Fiji’s YouTube channel. This is the first livestream through Cricket Fiji’s newly created You Tube channel. The livestream interfaced with the MyCricket electronic live-scoring to enrich the viewer experience with match scores and status. Additionally, the live-stream was further boosted with the commentary by Mr Rahul Patil of the Cook Islands, who volunteered to commentate two matches per day; a morning and an afternoon match respectively. The live-stream was watched by hundreds of viewers per day, widening the reach that PICC23 gained into the Pacific and beyond.