Mahuru Douglas Dai (born 30 May 1984) is a Papua New Guinean

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and right-arm

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since 2005.

Biography

Born in

Port Moresby (; Tok Pisin: ''Pot Mosbi''), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea. It is one of the largest cities in the southwestern Pacific (along with Jayapura) outside of Australia and New ...

in 1984, Dai first represented Papua New Guinea at Under-19 level, playing in the East Asia-Pacific Under-19 Championship in August 2001.Other matches played by Mahuru Dai
at CricketArchive Papua New Guinea won the tournament, beating Hong Kong in the final, which qualified them for the following years Under-19 World Cup, which Dai also played in. 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

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. Later in the year, he made his List A debut when he represented Papua New Guinea in the

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. 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

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of the

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in Darwin in 2007. Papua New Guinea finished third in that tournament and Dai was named

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in the third place play-off against the Cayman Islands after scoring 102

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at a run a ball. He represented his country at the

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where the team won a gold medal in the cricket tournament. During the tournament he scored a century in Papua New Guinea's record breaking win over New Caledonia.Papua New Guinea run riot
by Andrew Nixon, 1 September 2007 at CricketEurope He has since again represented the combined East Asia-Pacific team in the Australia National Country Cricket Championship. He made his One Day International debut on 8 November 2014 against Hong Kong in Australia. He made his

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debut for Papua New Guinea against Ireland in the

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tournament on 15 July 2015.

References

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