Assad Vala

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Assad Vala
Personal information
Full name
Asadollah Vala
Born (1987-08-05) 5 August 1987 (age 36)
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
BattingLeft-handed
BowlingRight-arm off break
Relations Pauke Siaka (spouse)
International information
National side
ODI debut(cap  10)8 November 2014 v  Hong Kong
Last ODI5 April 2023 v  Canada
ODI shirt no.13
T20I debut(cap  9)15 July 2015 v  Ireland
Last T20I21 September 2023 v  Hong Kong
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches66437101
Runs scored2,0038397002,986
Batting average 30.8123.9763.6330.78
100s/50s1/120/63/32/18
Top score10493* 144* 105*
Balls bowled2,3883893412,702
Wickets 5527569
Bowling average 28.7015.8133.2026.24
5 wickets in innings 0000
10 wickets in match0000
Best bowling3/173/72/803/17
Catches/stumpings 34/–19/–6/–46/–
Source: Cricinfo, 21 September 2023
Medal record
Representing Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea
Men's Cricket
Pacific Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Apia Twenty20 International

Assad Vala (born 5 August 1987) is a Papua New Guinea cricketer and the captain of the national side. [1] [2] A left-handed batsman and off spin bowler, he has played for the Papua New Guinea national team since 2005. [3]

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Early career

Born in Papua New Guinea in 1987, [3] Assad Vala first represented Papua New Guinea at the under-19 level, playing in the 2004 Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh. [4] He made his debut for the senior side at the 2005 ICC Trophy in Ireland, where he played seven List A matches. [5]

He returned to the under-19 level later in the year, playing in the Africa/East Asia-Pacific Under-19 Championship at Willowmoore Park in Benoni, South Africa. In 2006, he played for a combined East Asia Pacific team in the Australian National Country Cricket Championship, and did so again in 2007 and 2008. [4]

In 2007, Vala played in Division Three of the World Cricket League in Darwin and represented his country at the 2007 South Pacific Games, [4] where he won a gold medal in the cricket tournament. [6]

International career

He made his One Day International (ODI) debut on 8 November 2014 against Hong Kong in Australia. [7] He made his Twenty20 International debut against Ireland in the 2015 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament on 15 July 2015. [8]

In June 2015 on his first-class cricket debut, he scored a match-winning 124 not out against the Netherlands in the 2015–17 ICC Intercontinental Cup. [9] He scored three hundreds in his first four matches, also making centuries against Ireland (120) and Namibia (144 not out). [10]

In February 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) named Vala as one of the ten players to watch ahead of the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament. [11] In June 2018, at the Papua New Guinea Cricket Awards, he won the Tony Elly Medal for the best male player. [12]

In August 2018, he was named as the captain of Papua New Guinea's squad for Group A of the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 East Asia-Pacific Qualifier tournament. [13] He was the leading run-scorer in Group A of the tournament, with 294 runs in six matches. [14] In March 2019, he was named as the captain of Papua New Guinea's squad for the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 East Asia-Pacific Qualifier tournament. [15] The following month, he was named captain of Papua New Guinea's squad for the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament in Namibia. [16]

In June 2019, he was selected to represent the Papua New Guinea cricket team in the men's tournament at the 2019 Pacific Games. [17] In September 2019, Vala was named as the captain of Papua New Guinea's squad for the 2019 United States Tri-Nation Series. [18] In the final match of the series, against Namibia, he scored his first ODI century, with 104 runs from 114 balls. [19]

In September 2019, he was named as the captain of Papua New Guinea's squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates. [20] [21] Ahead of the tournament, the ICC named him as the key player in Papua New Guinea's squad. [22] He was the leading run-scorer for Papua New Guinea in the tournament, with 197 runs in eight matches. [23]

In November 2020, Vala was nominated for the ICC Men's Associate Cricketer of the Decade award. [24] In August 2021, Vala was named as the captain of Papua New Guinea's squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. [25]

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  1. ↑ "Assad Vala". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "PNG squad for Inter-continental Cup match against Namibia". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
  3. 1 2 CricketArchive profile
  4. 1 2 3 Other matches played by Asad Vala Archived 18 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine at CricketArchive
  5. ↑ List A matches played by Asad Vala at CricketArchive
  6. ↑ Points table for the 2007 South Pacific Games cricket tournament at CricketArchive
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