For the first time in almost five (5) years, Amini Park cricket ground in Port Moresby will be hosting ODI matches from 11th – 21st September 2022, when CPNG (Cricket Papua New Guinea) host’s Men’s teams from Namibia and United States of America for the CWC League 2 ODI Tri-series. The ground has previously hosted the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup East Asia-Pacific regional finals in 2019, that saw PNG compete against Vanuatu and Philippines. The CWC League 2 pathway program will see 126 ODI’s played across 21 set of Tri-series, with the first series kicking off in Scotland on 14 August 2019 in Aberdeen. Each Tri-series will see teams play a total of six ODI’s, with teams competing for the top three spots of the League 2 table which will confirm their direct entry in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2022.
PNG Barramundis have had a dismal performance in the CWC League 2 competition so far, winning only a solitary game from their twenty (20) completed matches in the competition, while Namibia, UAE, Nepal and USA are currently positioned in the mid-field battle for the final direct qualification entry into the World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe in 2023, with Oman and Scotland comfortably placed at the top 2 spots in the points table. CPNG are also scheduled to host Men’s teams from Nepal and UAE in their second home ODI series in the League 2 competition, for which the schedule is not yet announced.
Squads
United States of America: Monank Patel (Captain), Aaron Jones, Cameron Stevenson, Gajanand Singh, Jaskaran Malhotra, Jasdeep Singh, Kyle Phillip, Nisarg Patel, Nosthush Kenjige, Rahul Jariwala, Saurabh Netravalkar, Saiteja Mukkamalla, Steven Taylor and Yasir Mohammed
Namibia: Gerhard Erasmus (Captain), JJ Smit, Divan La Cock, Lohan Louwrens, Michael Van Lingen, Nicol Loftie-Eaton, Jan Frylinck, Ruben Trumpelmann, Pikky Ya France, Bernard Scholtz, Tangeni Lungameni, Stephen Baard, Ben Shikongo and Zane Green
CWC League 2 ODI Tri-series Schedule
11th September 2022: PNG vs USA (Scorecard)
13th September 2022: USA vs PNG (Scorecard)
15th September 2022: Namibia vs USA (Scorecard)
17th September 2022: USA vs Namibia (Scorecard)
19th September 2022: Namibia vs PNG (Scorecard)
21st September 2022: PNG vs Namibia (Scorecard)
