23 Dec 2013

Sport: No rest for PNG cricketers

12:10 pm on 23 December 2013

After a hectic 2013 season the General Manager of Cricket PNG, Greg Campbell, says next year will be no different.

The national Barramundi's team began the year by winning the East Asia Pacific T20 title, went within a game of qualifying for the T20 World Cup and earlier this month won the South Australian Premier League T20 competition.

Greg Campbell says their schedule will be just as full-on in 2014, beginning with next months 50 over World Cup qualifiers in New Zealand.

"It's probably a bigger event than the T20 Qualifier because that's where our rankings come in with the ICC. This is where we've really got to play well - we've got to adjust from the T20 to the 50 over and finish as high in them rankings as we can because that's when we could be playing Ireland in 2015, we could be playing in Namibia, we could be playing anywhere if we finish high up the rankings and that's where our finance comes from. Then ofcourse we follow on ten days later the Under 19s go to the World Cup, which will be their seventh in a row".