Jason Kila is a Papua New Guinean cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. Kila is a left-handed batsman who bowls slow left-arm orthodox. He was born in Port Moresby

Port Moresby

Port Moresby , or Pot Mosbi in Tok Pisin, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea . It is located on the shores of the Gulf of Papua, on the southeastern coast of the island of New Guinea, which made it a prime objective for conquest by the Imperial Japanese forces during 1942–43...

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Having played age group cricket for Papua New Guinea Under-19s in the 2008 Under-19 World Cup and 2010 Under-19 World Cup, he proceeded to be selected as a part of the Papua New Guinea squad for the 2011 World Cricket League Division Three

2011 ICC World Cricket League Division Three

The 2011 ICC World Cricket League Division Three is a cricket tournament that took place between 22–29 January 2011. It forms part of the ICC World Cricket League...

, where he played 5 matches, helping them earn promotion to 2011 World Cricket League Division Two

2011 ICC World Cricket League Division Two

The 2011 ICC World Cricket League Division Two is a cricket tournament that took place between 8–15 April 2011. It forms part of the ICC World Cricket League and qualifying for the 2015 Cricket World Cup. The United Arab Emirates hosted the event...

. It was in this competition that he made his List A debut against Namibia

Namibia national cricket team

The Namibia cricket team is the team that represents the country of Namibia in international cricket matches. It is governed by Cricket Namibia, an associate member of the International Cricket Council since 1992 and became part of the High Performance Program in 2007. They took part in the 2003...

. He played a further 3 List A matches in the competition, the last coming against Hong Kong

Hong Kong cricket team

The Hong Kong cricket team represents Hong Kong in international cricket. It played its first match in 1866 and has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council since 1969....

. In his 4 matches, he scored 75 runs at a batting average

Batting average

Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :...

 of 18.75, with a high score 36. With the ball, he took a single wickets at an overall competition cost

Bowling average

Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket.A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowlers divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the average the better. It is similar to earned...

 of 57 runs.

External links

• Jason Kila at ESPNcricinfo
• Jason Kila at CricketArchive
  CricketArchive
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