Papua New Guinea maintained its winning ways on the second day of the tournament when it beat Italy at Hong Kong Cricket Club with Jason Kila showing good skill with the bat to help the side on its way to 209 in the first innings.

Although Papua New Guineans batting was not particularly strong, the side were helped to their total by some sloppy bowling by the Italians with the European side's bowlers delivering 24 wides.

The normally reliable opening bowler Gayashan Munasinghe proved expensive today bowling five wides on his way to claiming 2-43 in his nine overs but the star of the Italy attack proved to be Peter Petricola once again. The 27-year-old medium-fast bowler took four wickets including those of key middle-order batsmen Chris Kent and Kila Pala.

Italy's batting failed to spark against the tight bowling of Papua New Guinea and despite some good runs on the board from Hemantha Jayasena, Andy Northcote and Hayden Patrizi the side fell short of the target by some 32 runs.

Papua New Guinea captain Rarua Dikana shone with the ball claiming 3-24 in just seven overs, including two maidens, with his medium pace bowling - taking the all important wickets of opener Northcote and middle-order danger-man Petricola.

Dikana said of today's win, 'Our batsmen are confident and did a good job spreading the load to make the total but perhaps didn't perform as strongly as we know they can, but with a strong bowling unit we didn't feel panicked about taking on Italy's batting line up and we scored our second victory.

'The pitch was pretty bouncy this morning but it flattened out as when we bowled on it which saw the ball keep low which helped me in claiming at least two of my wickets which were leg-before. Tomorrow's a rest day which means we can relax as a side and prepare for Tuesday and hopefully make it three out of three.'