If Papua New Guinea’s efforts to get a game against an Australian team have been stymied by COVID-19, then over the next week they have the chance to vault straight into a World Cup contest with Aaron Finch’s men.
“Before what’s happened over the last 18 months around the world, we had a verbal agreement with the CA chairman to send an XI to PNG last year as part of a warm-up to the World Cup that was going to be in Australia,” Campbell said. That help will doubtless be redoubled should PNG qualify out of their group - also comprising Oman, Bangladesh and Scotland - to reach the Super 12 stage of the Cup. A second-place finish would have the team match wits with Australia, a dream scenario for the team’s skilful captain, Assad Vala.
“When I was growing up, the summer of cricket in Australia was always played on TV back home, so we used to watch. In the early 1990s, I was a left-hander growing up, so Allan Border and all the left-handed batsmen were who I liked to watch.“Then when the games were done I’d go out and try to bat like them. As I got more interested in the game, someone I looked up to was Brian Lara, who caught my eye in the way he played and the runs he scored.
PNG might need to keep dreaming as already in this first game on the TV they look out of their depth batting wise
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