Since its beginnings cricket was picked up naturally in the Motuan areas of Papua New Guinea, most recognisably the village of Hanuabada.
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Hanuabada village is located on the outer suburbs of Port Moresby, here cricket is played everyday from small children to their national stars, every afternoon the streets are flooded with boys playing cricket, this was also where the Liklik Kricket Competition was started in PNG.
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It may be for these reasons why more than half of the PNG national cricket team is from Hanuabada village.
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Other teams which qualified for the tournament are USA, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea and Canada.
In 1982, the ground held a single international match between Israel and Papua New Guinea in the 1982 ICC Trophy.