Beyond the Boundary!

World Cricket League Division Five gets under-way in Jersey in less than two weeks, and teams are warming-up with varying degrees of success.
Nepal played the Pakistan Cricket Academy, losing the first two matches but gaining an unlikely win in the last. Vanuatu lost 2-0 to Fiji in a three match series, whilst Singapore whitewashed Malaysia […]

The Mainichi Daily News, a Japanese newspaper, has a fantastic article on cricket in Japan here. It’s a good look at some of the problems that can face cricket in the associate and affiliate countries, as well as a report on how the Japanese national side are doing as they prepare for Division Five of […]

Apologies for not keeping you up to date on this, I’ve been a little busy recently. After four rounds of matches in Auckland, it’s looking like Japan are going to be getting their spot in WCL Division Five, with the second spot being either the Cook Islands or Vanuatu, though Samoa and Tonga still have […]

Papua New Guinea have qualified for next year’s Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia after winning the regional EAP qualifiers in Vanuatu. They beat the hosts in the final, whilst Fiji beat Japan in the 3rd place play off.
There were some fine individual performances in the tournament, with Vanuatu captain Andrew Mansale putting in a cracking […]

Part three of our year in review takes us from Ireland to Japan.
Ireland
This will go down as a great year for Irish cricket. They won the European Championship at all age groups from the seniors down to the Under-13s. Playing against England, they were kind enough to give their best player to a struggling England […]

After showing a slight improvement in the second game, Hong Kong will be disapointed to again lose by more than 200 runs against Pakistan in their World Cup qualifying series match. Pakistan racked up 295/4 from their 50 overs with an unbeaten 106 coming from Tasqeen Qadeer, and 82 from Bismah Mahroof. Hong Kong were […]

An improvement for the Japanese in the third match of the series, but it wasn’t enough to avoid PNG getting a 3-0 series whitewash. Japan won the toss this time and elected to bat. A third wicket partnership of 91 between skipper Ema Kuribayashi (67 not out) and Mariko Yamamoto (46) helped lift Japan to […]

Papua New Guinea women have taken an unasailable 2-0 lead in their series against Japan. In a low scoring game, PNG scored 156/7, with the Japanese bowlers finally getting over their extras problem. Their batting was again too slow, and they only reached 109/9 from their 50 overs.
There is still one more game to go […]

Making their international debut, the Papua New Guinea womens team won the first game of their three match series against Japan today. The home team won the toss and chose to bat, and reached 175/4 from their 50 overs, with Hebou Morea top scoring with 52. Japan seem to have not got over their problem […]

Cricinfo seem to show even less interest in women’s cricket than they do in non-test cricket, and have yet to provide any details of the ongoing world cup qualifying series between Canada and Bermuda women. So they’re unlikely to provide live coverage of the forthcoming Papua New Guinea v Japan world cup qualifying series.
But not […]