PNG U19 cricket team

Letters

I HAVE been closely following and watching how Cricket PNG (CPNG) has been addressing the issue of shoplifting saga in Japan resulting in the disqualification of our PNG U19 cricket team in the final game of the World Cup qualifier against Japan.
As the way forward, CPNG was to have developed and run a rehabilitation programme together with a 60-hour community service work schedule for these.
Has this programme been developed and when will it start?
It has been over a month now.
As if the Japan fiasco wasn’t shameful enough for everyone, sadly, we continue to witness similar unacceptable practices by CPNG here at home.
At home, a male cricket development trainer resided in the same unit with all the young girls in week one of the TID programme.
In week two of the same TID programme, a female regional cricket development officer is residing in the same unit with all the young boys with the same male cricket development trainer in question.
And these very CPNG staff members have been seen drinking alcohol during the weekend games in CPNG vehicles parked at CPNG cricket ovals.
Our children are brought in with the aim of developing
cricket playing skills combined with emotional development skills.
Is the residential arrangement described above the CPNG accepted practice where a male can reside with the young girls and a female with the boys?
What does CPNG want the children to achieve at the end of all the “cricket development” programmes?
CPNG board is managed by a group of highly successful business entrepreneurs with highly qualified and experienced team of overseas administrators made up of a CEO, a general manager and head coach who come from vast cricketing backgrounds.
So CPNG should, therefore, be a highly organised and professionally managed and run sporting body in PNG.
We send our children because they love to play cricket and we enjoy watching them play.
Cricket lovers, parents and the general public want CPNG national staff to be professional in their approach to training, mentoring and coaching, and their general conduct both on and off field must be acceptable and professional at all times.
Young children want to align themselves with cricket idols.
Can CPNG establish this avenue?

Geno Roakeina
Parent, cricket die-hard