Mahuru Dai

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Mahuru Dai
Personal information
Full name
Mahuru Douglas Dai
Born (1984-05-30) 30 May 1984 (age 39)
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm leg break
Role Batsman
International information
National side
ODI debut(cap  8)8 November 2014 v  Hong Kong
Last ODI17 March 2018 v  Hong Kong
T20I debut(cap  2)15 July 2015 v  Ireland
Last T20I14 April 2017 v  UAE
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches189747
Runs scored454105374822
Batting average 28.3713.1228.7620.95
100s/50s0/30/01/10/5
Top score78* 3112976*
Balls bowled9541501,3421,970
Wickets 1841745
Bowling average 37.5039.2537.1130.28
5 wickets in innings 0000
10 wickets in match0000
Best bowling3/582/134/1264/56
Catches/stumpings 8/–5/–4/–21/–
Source: Cricinfo, 18 March 2018

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] Dai has played for the Papua New Guinea national cricket team since 2005. [3]

Biography

Born in Port Moresby in 1984, [2] 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 represented his country at the 2007 South Pacific Games [4] where the team 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]

He made his One Day International debut on 8 November 2014 against Hong Kong in Australia. [10] He made his Twenty20 International debut for Papua New Guinea against Ireland in the 2015 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament on 15 July 2015. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Cricinfo profile
  2. 1 2 CricketArchive profile
  3. ↑ Teams played for by Mahuru Dai at CricketArchive
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Other matches played by Mahuru Dai at CricketArchive
  5. ↑ Scorecard of Hong Kong Under-19s v Papua New Guinea Under-19s, 25 August 2001 at CricketArchive
  6. ↑ List A matches played by Mahuru Dai at CricketArchive
  7. ↑ Scorecard of Cayman Islands v Papua New Guinea, 2 June 2007 at CricketArchive
  8. ↑ Papua New Guinea take home the gold by Andrew Nixon, 2 September 2007 at CricketEurope
  9. ↑ Papua New Guinea run riot Archived 20 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine by Andrew Nixon, 1 September 2007 at CricketEurope
  10. ↑ "Hong Kong tour of Australia, 1st ODI: Papua New Guinea v Hong Kong at Townsville, Nov 8, 2014". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  11. ↑ "ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier, 23rd Match, Group A: Ireland v Papua New Guinea at Belfast, Jul 15, 2015". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
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