Cricket PNG

After attending an Athlete Career Education course this week, Boas strongly recommends the course be pumped out to national athletes in other codes as well in the country.

The course was co-hosted by High Performance – PNG Sports Foundation, Cricket PNG and International Cricket Council,

“This is a very good course and would have been great if all other national athletes from other codes attended.

“Like most of us playing at the national level, we are bound to lose our form one day.

The youngster joined Cricket PNG (CPNG) as a development officer almost three years ago and has not looked back since.

“Cricket has changed my life for the better. I have learnt to have a more positive attitude, to carry myself with respect and be disciplined in life,” said Nuana.

Nuana said his love for the sport of cricket began as early as 10. It wasn’t long before he became a coach for the Coasters Cricket Club’s Under 15 team.

The Girls Empowerment through Cricket program, launched today, is a development program initiated by CPNG and supported by Australian Aid to use cricket as the vehicle for change to empower young girls in Secondary schools.

Coinciding with International women’s Day, CPNG has decided to celebrate the launch of the program to show respect, appreciation and love towards all girls and women in the country.

The main aim of the program is to increase female participation in playing hard ball cricket and empower young girls through educational sessions.

The Barras have the momentum coming off two wins against Nepal in round two of the World Cricket League Championship.

The Barras beat Nepal by two wickets on Monday and again by three wickets on Wednesday.

The match will start at 9:45am (3:45pm PNG).

The Barras are coming off two wins in their practice matches held last Thursday and over the weekend.

Barras Head Coach, Dipak Patel was pleased with the build-up to the Nepal match.

 “However, our young inexperienced bowling attack is a little under done in specific match preparation, planning and strategies.”

“Our batting is in excellent shape with all the batsmen showing great form and the plans and strategies are where we'd like to be.

38 teams are taking part in season four of the competition which has two divisions- men’s and the mixed pools.

In the men’s pool 1 (Avala), the Institute of Business Studies (IBS) and PIH are the only two undefeated teams and sit in first and second spot respectively on the points ladder on 28 points each.

In pool 2 (Lahara), Pacific Assurance Group (PAG) sits on top with two from two wins on 24 poitns. Rent-A-Tent is second on 16 points.

For the mixed division, in pool 1 (Avurigo), PAG is again leading on 27 points. BSP is not far on 26.

They defeated Digicel Dragons by 73 runs in a T20 encounter at Amini Park late yesterday afternoon.

Avalanches won the toss and elected to bat, posting an impressive 5/153 off their allotted 20 overs.

PNG Barramundis Captain Jack Vare (54) and Arina Lahari (52) shared a great opening partnership to hit  Avalanches off to a good start.

Dragons’ bowlers were not able to penetrate the Avalanches’ batsmen, with William Aiga (2/24) the only multiple wicket-taker for the Avalanches.

They beat Paradise Foods Pistons in the first T20 match of round three by 69 runs with five wickets in hand.

Pistons sent Heart to the crease after winning the toss.

Daure Kila (2/41) clean bowled Raho Sam for 3 in the second over before PNG Barramundis star batsman Assad Vala joined Ratu Maha to put on a 79 run second wicket partnership.

They steered Heart out of any real trouble before Maha fell for an entertaining 31 runs off just 24 balls which included five boundaries while Vala was eventually dismissed for 92 runs off 53 balls.