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Mahuru Dai Personal information Full name Mahuru Douglas Dai Born 30 May 1984
Port Moresby, Papua New GuineaBatting style Right-handed Bowling style Right-arm medium pace Role Batsman Domestic team information Years Team 2005 
Papua New GuineaList A debut 1 July 2005 Papua New Guinea v Netherlands Last List A 11 July 2005 Papua New Guinea v Uganda Career statistics Competition List A Under-19 ODI Matches 6 11 Runs scored 83 141 Batting average 13.83 12.81 100s/50s 0/1 0/0 Top score 52 32 Balls bowled 0 42 Wickets - 0 Bowling average - - 5 wickets in innings - - 10 wickets in match - - Best bowling - 0/13 Catches/stumpings 1/0 1/0 Source: CricketArchive, 6 July 2008 Mahuru Douglas Dai (born 30 May 1984) is a Papua New Guinean cricketer.[1] A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler,[2] he has played for the Papua New Guinea national cricket team since 2005.[3]
Biography
Born in Port Moresby in 1984,[2] Mahuru Dai first represented Papua New Guinea at Under-19 level, playing in the East Asia-Pacific Under-19 Championship in August 2001.[4] Papua New Guinea won the tournament, beating Hong Kong in the final,[5] which qualified them for the following years Under-19 World Cup, which Dai also played in.[4]
In 2004, he played for a combined East Asia-Pacific team in Australia's National Country Cricket Championship prior to a second Under-19 World Cup. He made his debut for the Papua New Guinea senior team in the repêchage tournament of the 2005 ICC Trophy.[4]
Later in the year, he made his List A debut when he represented Papua New Guinea in the 2005 ICC Trophy in Ireland.[6] He again played for the combined East Asia-Pacific team in the Australian National Country Cricket Championship in 2006 and 2007 before returning to the Papua New Guinea team for Division Three of the World Cricket League in Darwin in 2007.[4] Papua New Guinea finished third in that tournament and Dai was named man of the match in the third place play-off against the Cayman Islands after scoring 102 not out at a run a ball.[7]
He most recently represented his country at the 2007 South Pacific Games[4] where he won a gold medal in the cricket tournament.[8] During the tournament he scored a century in Papua New Guinea's record breaking win over New Caledonia.[9] He has since again represented the combined East Asia-Pacific team in the Australia National Country Cricket Championship.[4]
References
- ^ Cricinfo profile
- ^ a b CricketArchive profile
- ^ Teams played for by Mahuru Dai at CricketArchive
- ^ a b c d e f Other matches played by Mahuru Dai at CricketArchive
- ^ Scorecard of Hong Kong Under-19s v Papua New Guinea Under-19s, 25 August 2001 at CricketArchive
- ^ List A matches played by Mahuru Dai at CricketArchive
- ^ Scorecard of Cayman Islands v Papua New Guinea, 2 June 2007 at CricketArchive
- ^ Papua New Guinea take home the gold by Andrew Nixon, 2 September 2007 at CricketEurope
- ^ Papua New Guinea run riot by Andrew Nixon, 1 September 2007 at CricketEurope
Categories:- 1984 births
- Living people
- Papua New Guinean cricketers
- People from the National Capital District (Papua New Guinea)
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