Tim Coyle joins Cricket PNG as an assistant coach for the national teams.
He is a veteran of the game who has coached some of the very best of Australia in a long standing career that has seen him travel far and wide.
Coyle has been working closely to help upskill the Hebou PNG Barramundis, the City Pharmacy PNG Lewas as well as the Hebou PNG U19 Garamuts.
“I came to PNG 9 years ago, when I was the coach for the Tasmania Tigers Cricket Team, I came up here with a few players, we played in a tournament and I did some coaching,” he stated.
“This trip has been a good experience, I spent three or four weeks with the team in Zimbabwe at the ICC Cricket World Cup qualifying event including some time in Brisbane while they were in camp, so it was good.
“I knew some of the players from the previous trips. So it was good to reunite with some of them again and just to see how cricket has developed.
“Certainly an exciting time at the moment for Cricket in PNG with the players that we got here and now with the program that is in place under the leadership of Joe Dawes.”
While he has helped skills programs for the Lewas, his work so far has mainly worked with the Barramundis.
The main challenge for the Hebou PNG Barramundis is to regain ODI Status, but the immediate goals are to qualify for the ICC T20 World Cup 2020, which will be held in Australia. But in order to take on the world, Coyle says feels we should rule the region first.
