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Who made the decision to include PNG in this Cricket World Cup? They have no clue of how to even run between wickets. Yeah – the best of batsmen have been runout, but these guys take it to Barnum and Bailey circus level

In reply to birdseye

you have been around for the last 20 years and ask such a dumb question.
The West Indies did not qualify a few years ago, PNG qualified to be at the WC.

In reply to openning

Who made the decision ??????
they qualified guy....

In reply to openning

In reply to openning

Well they need to change the qualifying process – as cricketer turn broadcaster Carlos Brathwaite said: the runner failed cricket 101, --- ground your bat when it crosses the crease to avoid being runout with the bat hanging 9 inches inside the crease.

In reply to Birdseye

The same happens in the Olympics, where countries send their best athletes, that are off the top teams qualifying times.
What year did Sti Lanka and Bangladesh qualify?
The White ball format will soon make the Islands and Guyana think of competing solo.

In reply to openning

And I do believe that any of those islands + Guyana would win any T20 series with PMG… its just more a part of our DNA

In reply to birdseye

but the fact that they have adopted our game is refreshing. We dont complain when Jamaica sends bobsled teams to the Olympics. We celebrate it in film.

In reply to PalsofMine

So why not say – who ever will may come? Jamaica bobsled team was a novelty with entertainment value… I would venture to say that even when the WI team did not make the WC – that team of players still possessed more cricket savior fare, adroitness, than PNG. When you come down to it, cricket is first and foremost, entertainment

In reply to PalsofMine

adopted? Weren't they once an English colony. I'm sure a WI team stopped off there more than 50+ yrs ago.
Birdie the only decision makers that determined PNG made it to the championship is PNG themselves who
cut other associate's asses to get there.

In reply to birdseye

the same ones who made the decision to put been Pakistan, New Zealand and possibly England

In reply to birdseye

hoss....ive seen lendl simmons, a dude who has played all over the world, reached champions league final and won two world cups make runout errors it happens. And RTN should be last person on earth to talk about incompetence. incompetence and idiocy characterized his career post 4 sixes.