PNG Hebou Barramundis go down against Netherlands

Barras go down to Netherlands. Photo: Getty Images

The PNG Hebou Barramundis were defeated badly by the Netherlands today in the 50 Overs World Cup Qualifiers at Pukekura Park in New Zealand.

Netherlands won the toss earlier and elected to bat first making a total of 4/323 runs after 50 overs with an excellent run rate of 6.46 runs per over. They won by 130 runs after bowling PNG all out for 193 runs in just 37.2 overs.

The Netherlands’ innings saw ES Szwarczynski scoring the highest runs of 129 not out, followed by W Barresit on 69 and PW Borren on 65.

PNG’s best bowler for the innings was Willie Gavera, who took out two wickets, one maiden and 49 runs in his eight overs bowled.

The two other wickets were taken by Pipi Raho and Charles Amini, who bowled 10 overs each. Raymond Haoda was the most expensive bowler with 77 runs of nine overs.

In the PNG innings, wickets fell fast with Lega Siaka first to go after 3.3 overs when the score was 1/17. Assad Vala was out for a duck in just 4.3 overs leaving PNG score of 2/17.

Captain Chris Amini only made nine runs before he was out after 8.4 overs.  After 10 overs PNG was 4/30 following the dismissal of Tony Ura.

With all the top batsmen out, wickets began to fall quickly for the Barras as Vice-Captain Jack Vare held on to keep the runs going.

Vare made the highest runs of 96 of 59 balls where he hit seven 4s and seven big 6s before he was bowled out by MAA Jamil. The Barras had a good run rate of 5.16 runs per over but ran out of wickets in the end.

So far the Barramundis has won two of its four games in Pool A with one more match to go against Namibia on Jan 23 in Tauranga.. PNG Today/ PNG EDGE