Kenya Player Rankings After Bangladesh Series

Surprisingly, despite the 4-0 whitewash, Kenya's players in the top 100 in the rankings have fared not too badly in the reshuffle after the Bangladesh series.

Steve Tikolo still heads Kenya's Batsmen, rising 22 points to 423 on the back of his efforts in the last match. This puts him up 7 places to 76th despite only troubling the scorers in one match. Kennedy Otieno loses one place to fall to 98th after a nightmare tour which aslo sees him drop to 342 points from 369. Hitesh Modi replaces Thomas Odoyo in 99th= moving onto 338 points. Odoyo who was on 374 points falls out of the top 100.

Kenya's bowlers are the big winners from the tour, especially Peter Ongondo who picked up at least one wicket every match, just as he did in Zimbabwe. Peter moves onto 425 from 387, previously his best ever, and rises 15 places to 64th, overtaking Collins Obuya who remains at 66th on 417 points despite not having really bowled this year. Odoyo still heads the Kenyan bowlers in 56th spot on 462 points, up from 448, but Ongondo will be hot on his heels if he can continue to take wickets as regularly as he has done so far. Steve Tikolo also improves his ranking by 10 places moving up to 82nd on 382 points from the 340 he had after the tour to Zimbabwe. Martin Suji rounds out the Kenyan bowlers in 89th position with 358 points.

All in all, this is a surprising result for the Kenyans - I had expected most to drop, especially the batsmen. If Hitesh Modi has made it to the top 100, Tanmay Mishra is probably only a half century from getting up there as well. It is a while now until Kenya's next ODI, so the boys will no doubt slip again, but good to see Kenya still represented.