Cricket PNG’s national teams, the PNG Barramundis and PNG Lewas, made a landmark appearance at the PNG Resources Golden Exhibition on Saturday 19th July 2025, becoming the first sporting teams to visit the country’s premier mining and petroleum industry showcase that is currently hosted by the PNG Chamber of Resources and Energy (PNG CORE). The exhibition provided a unique platform for the players to engage directly with industry leaders and learn about the nation's key resource sectors and their broader impact on community development and sport sponsorship. For PNG Lewas Captain Brenda Tau, the experience was both exciting and enlightening. “Well, firstly, thank you to PNG CORE for giving us this opportunity to actually come to the Golden Resources Exhibition. It’s really good to be here. It’s actually my first time, including my team,” she said. Tau said the exhibition gave her team valuable insight into how the country’s resource sector supports national development, including sports. “You get to learn a lot about the resources and what they give back to our country, our people, and even to sporting teams. It’s just really good to be here to learn all about that,” she added. PNG Barramundis Captain Assadollah Vala said one of the highlights for him was learning about gold extraction and the science behind resource processing. “Obviously, I think the extraction—the work they were speaking about, how they go underground and extract all those golds and silvers, the process they go about, the amount of time they put in to get the gold out of the ground—it was something new that I learned today,” Vala said. The curator of the PNG Resources Golden Exhibition, Ms. Ruth Waram, expressed gratitude to Cricket PNG for making the visit possible. “On behalf of the PNG Chamber of Resources and Energy and the PNG Resources Golden Expo team, we sincerely thank Cricket PNG for bringing our two champion teams, the Barras and the Lewas, to the expo today. We’re really privileged to have them. They’re the first sporting teams to visit, apart from the general public and schools,” Waram said.