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Full name | Kaia Arua | ||||||||||||||
Born | 27 October 1990 | ||||||||||||||
Died | 4 April 2024 Korobosea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea | (aged 33)||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
Bowling | Slow left-arm wrist-spin | ||||||||||||||
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T20I debut (cap 2) | 7 July 2018 v Bangladesh | ||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 19 January 2024 v Fiji | ||||||||||||||
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 30 September 2019 | |||||||||||||||
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Kaia Arua (27 October 1990 – 4 April 2024) was a Papua New Guinean cricketer.[1][2] A left-arm wrist-spinner, she played for the Papua New Guinea women's national cricket team in the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in February 2017.[3]
In June 2018, she was named in Papua New Guinea's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament.[4] She made her Twenty20 International (T20I) debut against Bangladesh in the World Twenty20 Qualifier on 7 July 2018.[5] She captained the side for the match against Ireland on 12 July 2018.[6]
In July 2018, she was named in the ICC Women's Global Development Squad.[7] In November 2018, she was again named in the Women's Global Development Squad, to play fixtures against Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) clubs.[8]
In April 2019, she was named as the captain of Papua New Guinea's squad for the 2019 ICC Women's Qualifier EAP tournament in Vanuatu.[9] In Papua New Guinea's penultimate match of the tournament, against Japan, she took her first five-wicket haul in T20Is.[10]
In August 2019, she was named as the captain of Papua New Guinea's squad for the 2019 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament in Scotland.[11][12] In October 2019, she was named in the Women's Global Development Squad, ahead of a five-match series in Australia.[13] In October 2021, she was named in Papua New Guinea's team for the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament in Zimbabwe.[14] Her spell of 5/7 in 4 overs against Japan is the second-best bowling figure by a PNG cricketer.
Arua died in Port Moresby General Hospital on 4 April 2024, at the age of 33, leaving a son and a daughter.[15][16][17]
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