Papua New Guinea will host fixtures featuring visiting First Nations Australian XI sides to start coming tournaments featuring cricket's best Indigenous and Pacific players.

A three-year, $1.55 million partnership between the federal government and Cricket Australia backs identification and development of Pacific talent, and promises more regular matches for men's and women's national Indigenous teams to compete.

The funding is set to come via the Government's Pacific AusSports, in a renewal of the partnership begun in 2022.

With it, Indigenous XIs will compete in invitational tournaments against Pacific sides, with the first scheduled for June in PNG.

Speaking at Cricket Australia's 'Stretch' RAP Launch at the MCG on Tuesday, the sports body's National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cricket Advisory Group co-chair and Gooreng Gooreng man Justin Mohamed told National Indigenous Times "we see a lot of young people here who really want to be involved in cricket and bring their culture with it, and this allows that to take place".

Henao Thomas, 22, debuted for the PNG women's national team in March.

She said the partnership had already given "opportunities that we can only dream of in PNG".

"I want to learn as much as I can from these experiences to keep improving our game and make the next ICC Women's T20 World Cup."

Cricket Australia recognises their role in the development of cricket in neighbouring countries.

"Exposure to more elite-level cricket is vital for ICC Associate Members and this next phase of the partnership will help provide access to Australian cricket competitions and facilities to aid the high-performance programs of national teams in the Pacific region," CA chief executive Nick Hockley said.

"We would like to thank the Australian Government for its ongoing support, which helps us deliver on one of our key strategic objectives to support the growth of cricket globally."

Minister for International Development and Pacific Pat Conroy added the government was proud to continue with the partnership, and "look forward to more Pacific teams competing on the world stage".

The announcement coincides with the second National Indigenous Cricket Training Camp, a CA-Melbourne Cricket Club Initiate culminating in a T20 fixtures on the MCG.

Men's player and Gunditjmara man Damon Egan told National Indigenous Times the cultural component and continued development in First Nations pathways are important to showcase, and "the foundations that we build in this program is fantastic".

Egan has previously toured with the Indigenous national side, including a tour to England, and captained the side on their 2023 tour of Vanuatu.

Before sweeping honours at this year's National Indigenous Cricket Championships, last year's camp was NSW's Dharmini Chauhan's first time stepping onto the 'G.

She said there's wide-eyes amongst the group about to have their first time, and a personal "dream come true" to bring cultural elements out in the middle while surrounded by 100,000 seats.