Mahuru Dai


Mahuru Douglas Dai is a Papua New Guinean cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, Dai has played for the Papua New Guinea national [cricket team] since 2005.

Biography

Born in Port Moresby in 1984, Dai first represented Papua New Guinea at Under-19 level, playing in the East Asia-Pacific Under-19 Championship in August 2001. 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 2007 [Cricket World Cup qualification#World Cup Qualifying Series Division 2 2005|repêchage tournament] of the 2005 ICC Trophy.
Later in the year, he made his List A debut when he represented Papua New Guinea in the 2005 ICC Trophy in Ireland. 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 2007 [ICC World Cricket League Division Three|Division Three] of the World Cricket League in Darwin in 2007. Papua New Guinea finished third in that tournament and Dai was named man of the match in the third place play-off against the Cayman Islands after scoring 102 not out at a run a ball.
He represented his country at the 2007 [South Pacific Games] 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. 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 Hong Kong [cricket team against Papua New Guinea in Australia in 2014–15|against Hong Kong] in Australia. He made his Twenty20 International debut for Papua New Guinea against Ireland in the 2015 [ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier] tournament on 15 July 2015.