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Loading ...Apparently cricket has taken off there since Kenya’s amazing performance in the 2003 World Cup. Of course there will always be the presence and popularity of football in most countries worldwide, but cricket is making nice inroads.
Kenya bulldoze Scotland
By Will 3 years ago, mid-January Add your comment below
I’ve been closely following Kenyan cricket in the past few months, as I’m off to Nairobi in a couple of weeks to cover the World Cricket League. Non-Test cricket has always interested me, but I freely admit that only until quite recently did I realise it had such a following. Kenya’s game looks and sounds in very good order at the moment, too.
I didn’t watch today’s one-dayer between Kenya and Scotland – the first in the ICC Tri-Series at Mombasa – but followed it on the scorecard from our scorer at the ground, and from our man-on-the-spot, David Waters, who kindly gave us some colour. Scotland took a right pasting and there was a fifty from Ravi Shah, making his comeback, who is one of the very classiest (so I’m told) non-Test batsmen out there. It’ll be terrific seeing him and others in Nairobi, and also watching the standard of cricket (and the level of interest).
Tags: associates, icc-tri-series, kenya, mombasa, nairobi, scotland, world-cricket-league |
4 Responses to “Kenya bulldoze Scotland”
January 17th, 2007 at 11.27 pm
January 17th, 2007 at 11.59 pm
Champ,
get a life, why would you follow Kenya, then again they’d probably give the poms & kiwis a run for their money.
January 18th, 2007 at 10.45 am
Kenyan cricket has a lot of passionate supporters. The Kenyan cricketers are very friendly as well. I had the pleasure of meeting a few of them when they were in Calcutta a few years back and all seem down to earth and enthusiastic.
All the best.
January 19th, 2007 at 1.00 pm
Will,
don’t listen to Whits, this stuff is worth keeping an eye on. It’s important that cricket expands. The World Cup seems to be well set up, with the eight minnows all given a chance in the group stage, before the top 7 and England play the super 8’s. But can you see any of these minnows crashing the party and knicking off a true Test nation?
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