Malaysia's Niz Azril grabbed a hat-trick in their 58-run win over Singapore in the Air Niugini Twenty-20 series quadrangular tournament in Port Moresby on 4 September 2010.

Malaysia won the toss and scored 168-8. Dharmichand Mulewa, with 3 wickets and 1 wicket each from Pramodh Raja, Anish Param, Rohan Tripathi and Riaz Hussein accounted for the wickets with one run out.

In reply, Singapore were 110-8 in their 20 overs. Only Dharmichand Mulewa with 23 and Saad Khan Janjua with 15 put up any meaningful resistance. Both were Azril's hat-trick victims; the other being Riaz Hussein. Azril also accounted for Pramodh Raja.

Singapore play Hongkong in the final group match on 5 September 2010 morning. Hosts Papua New Guinea and Malaysia will play the final in the afternoon.   

Hosts Papua New Guinea beat Singapore by 74 runs in the opening match of the Air Nuigini Twenty-20 Series at Port Moresby on 4 September 2010.

PNG elected to bat and made 136-7. Chaminda Ruwan grabbed 3 wickets with Narender Reddy (2), Pramodh Raja and Shoib Razak accounting for the 7 wickets. 

Singapore responded poorly. Except for Munish Arora's 18, none of the other batsmen reached double figures as we folded for 62 in 13.3 overs on a slow batting track.

Singapore face Malaysia in a later match today. Malaysia had earlier beaten Hongkong in the only match.

The Republic finished runners-up in the 50-overs competition involving the same teams. We beat Hongkong and Malaysia and lost to PNG, who won all 3 matches. Malaysia were third and Hongkong last.

Singapore finished runners-up in the Air Niugini Super Series quadrangular tournament in Port Moresby.

The Republic scored an 11-run win over Malaysia in the final group match on 3 September 2010 when we registered our highest score in the 4-nation tournament with 257-8 in our 50 overs and restricted our neighbours to 246-8 in their innings. 

Singapore's run-makers were opener Buddhika Mendis (80), Chaminda Ruwan (55), Anish Param (28) and Chetan Suryawanshi (21). Our wicket-takers were Narender Reddy (3), Saad Khan Janjua (1), Dharmichand Mulewa (1) and Rizwan Madakia (1). There were 2 run outs.

Our previous scores in the competition were 252 against Hongkong and 225 against hosts PNG. The win over Malaysia was our second after our opening-match victory over Hongkong by 90 runs. We had lost to eventual champions PNG by 5 wickets on 2 September 2010. PNG clinched the title with 3 straight wins. Hongkong were winless in the competition.

Final standings : 1 Papua New Guinea 2 Singapore 3 Malaysia 4 Hongkong

Hosts Papua New Guinea defeated Singapore by 5 wickets in the Air Nuigini Super Series competition in Port Moresby on 2 September 2010. Buddhika Mendis, Dharmichand Mulewa and Narender Reddy (two) were the wicket-takers with one run out as the hosts scored 229-5 in 48 overs in reply to the Republic's 225-6 in the 50-overs competition.

Singapore, electing to bat, slowed down in the final 20 overs after putting up 131 runs in 30 overs. With the wicket deteriorating, the run-rate dipped with 84 runs being added in the last 20 overs despite wickets in hand.

Param, batting at No.3 and who made 53 against Hongkong in the opening match on 1 September 2010,  made 73 after  Chetan Suryawanshi (34) and Buddhika Mendis (28) had given us a flying start with 59 runs inside 10 overs.  Veteran Munish Arora again made his experience count with his calculated shots to contribute 52 not out to add to his 42 against Hongkong.

Singapore play Malaysia in their final group match on 3 September 2010 at the same ground.