Hong Kong are scheduled to tour Ireland and Scotland from August 30 for three weeks and then to Kenya from November 18. This series has been sandwiched right in between the two tours with the matches scheduled to take place on November 4, 6 and 8. It will be a landmark series since Hong Kong have never hosted an ODI series apart from the ICC World Cricket League.
"PNG and Hong Kong have both progressed through the divisions together over the last few years," Charlie Burke, Director of Hong Kong Cricket, said. "It was only in 2010 when we met in Division 3 and since we have both emerged to register some excellent results World Cricket League and World Cup qualifiers.
"Our fans deserve to witness two quality sides that have played in some great battles as well as an opportunity to host PNG, who put on a great series in Townsville. The bigger picture is to continue preparations for the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifiers in 2018."
Simon Cook, Hong Kong's head coach, revealed that his players are going through a training program in order to tackle the busy period.
"We have played PNG a lot over the years and the players have detailed knowledge of each other which always makes for an interesting series," Cook said. "They have some good players that can take the game away from you if you let them so we will have to be on top of our game to beat them.
"As we speak our players are currently in a strength phase of their training program which is going really well so we should be seeing a faster, stronger and more durable Hong Kong squad leading into this really busy six-month period."
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