Joel Tom (born 6 May 1989) is a
Papua New Guinean international
cricket
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er who made his debut for the
PNG national team in 2009. He plays as a right-arm medium-pace bowler.
Tom represented the
PNG under-19s at the
2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia,
appearing in his team's matches against
India, the
West Indies, and
Bermuda. He made his senior debut for Papua New Guinea at the
2009 EAP Trophy, going on to take figures of 2/25 against
Tonga and 4/8 against
Japan
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. Tom was also successful at the
2011 edition of that tournament, taking 2/15 and 3/31 against
Vanuatu (the latter in the tournament final) and 2/10 against
Fiji
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. He was subsequently selected in Papua New Guinea's squad for the
2012 World Twenty20 Qualifier in the United Arab Emirates, the final qualification event for the
2012 World Twenty20. He only appeared in two of his team's matches, however, taking 1/23 against
Bermuda and 1/15 against
Nepal. In 2015, Tom was a member of the PNG A squad that won a silver medal in
the cricket tournament at the
2015 Pacific Games
The 2015 Pacific Games, also known as Port Moresby 2015 or POM 2015, was held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, from 4 to 18 July 2015. It was the fifteenth staging of the Pacific Games as well as the third to be hosted in Port Moresby.
More tha ...
.
Participant: Joel Tom
– XV Pacific Games. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
References
External links
a
Cricket Archive
a
ESPNcricinfo
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1989 births
Living people
Papua New Guinean cricketers
Papua New Guinean sportsmen
Place of birth missing (living people)