Friday, October 09, 2009

Nilay Thakar helps CCA U17s to win over Dansk


Nilay Thakar scored a half century for CCA U17s as they beat visiting Danish side Dansk by 60 runs yesterday at Mombasa Sports Club. Batting first, the coast youngsters set a target of 170 for the loss of 8 wickets. Other main contributors were Africa U17 finals man-of-the-tournament, Raj Shikotra (33*) pictured right in action v Ghana U17s, Jignesh Hirani (29) and Vishal shikotra (29).

Dansk could only manage 110 in reply with the coast bowlers sharing the wickets between them.

A CCA XI will take on the visitors in a final limited overs game on Saturday.

Thursday, October 08, 2009

CCA triumph over visiting Danes

Good to see some action from the coast where a CCA XI recently defeated a visiting Danish side by 8 wickets in a 30 overs game.

Batting first, Dansk XI put on 115 with Perben top scoring with 36. Khan (3/17 off 4 overs) and the evergreen Mohammed Sawjani (2/23 off 6 overs) took the wickets for CCA.

Kamal Gohil (28 retired) and Jasmeer (24 retired) gave CCA a solid start to the run chase before the Danes struck back with the wickets of Mike Fernandes (12) and Khan (6) before Satpal Singh (17*) and Rajesh Shukla (20*) eased the hosts to a win with balls and wickets aplenty in hand.

Game 2 of the series was scheduled for yesterday between Dansk and a CCA U17 side. As yet, no details have emerged on the result.

We will endeavour to get details of the scores etc. Anyone from the coast who can help...

A final game is scheduled against the full CCA side on October 10th.

Details so far courtesy of CCA website

All to play for after day 1


Half centuries from Steve Tikolo (61) and Alex Obanda (51) along with numerous starts from other players have helped Kenya to a total of 327/9 on day 1 of their Intercontinental Cup match against the Zimbabwe XI. Losing the toss and having been put into bat, Kenya lost the early wicket of Rakep Patel who was promoted to opener in the absence of Seren Waters (14/1).

Collins Obuya (21) then joined brother David (37) for a profitable 71 run partnership that was ended when David was trapped lbw by Timycen Maruma (85/2). Collins followed shortly after when he was run out to bring Zimbabwe back into the game at 91/3. His departure brought together the old and new skippers, Steve Tikolo (Pictured right on his way to a century against canada earlier this year) and Maurice Ouma and the two steadied the ship before beginning to threaten to take the game away from the Zimbabweans with a 108 run partnership, but once again, Kenya lost 2 quick wickets in succession as first Ouma was out bowled by Chibhabha for 38 (197/4) and then Tikolo followed shortly after caught by opposition captain, Sibanda also off Chibhabha's medium pace (211/5).

Though Alex Obanda (51) combined with first Jimmy Kamande (9) in a 31 run partnership and with Thomas Odoyo (14) for another one of 40 runs, wickets again fell one after the other to allow Zimbabwe to claw their way back into the game. Rageb Aga (9) was the final wicket to fall for Kenya as a late flurry from Nehemiah Odhiambo (21* off 20 balls) allowed Kenya to finish the day on 327/9, Hiren Varaiya (6*) the other batsman remaining at the crease.

Having been put into bat, Kenya will probably be fairly happy with where they sit, though after the partnership from Tikolo and Ouma they would have been targeting a score around 400 rather than low 300s. Both remaining batsmen can however stick around and if Odhiambo can continue his form with the bat on day 2, a score of 350 could be just enough for Kenya to defend first innings points if they bowl well.

It will be an interesting test for the Kenyan attack which will be without stalwart Peter Ongono who was left out for Aga. Kenyan fans and selectors alike will be hoping this was the right decision and that the seam combination of Odoyo, Odhiambo and Aga makes enough inroads for the spinners to do their work later. It should be a fascinating day's cricket.

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Kenya in Group A for World Cup

The ICC have just announced the groups for the 2011 World Cup which will see Kenya taking on the recent Champions Trophy winners Australia, the ever unpredictable Pakistan along side New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Canada.

Group B will consist of India, South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland, Netherlands.

All things considered, this could be a very good draw for Kenya who have in the past beaten all of the teams in their group apart from the 2 antipodean sides. Here's hoping the team will once again cause an upset!

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

NPCA Points tables Round 2 Week 4

POINTS TABLE - LEAGUE 2009 - 50 OVERS.

04.10.09

SUPER

TEAM

PLAYED

WIN(WON)

DRAW

BAT

BOWL

BONUS

PENALTY

TOTAL

Swamibapa 'A'

11

108(9)

6

20

37

4

-1

174

Kanbis 'A'

11

96(8)

0

22

40

2

0

160

Telca

11

96(8)

0

12

38

10

0

156

Stray Lions 'A'

9

84(7)

0

15

31

6

-2

134

Kanbis 'B'

11

48(4)

0

12

36

6

0

102

SCLYL 'A'

11

24(2)

0

12

32

0

0

68

Simba Union A

9

12(1)

0

5

25

2

0

44

Sir Ali 'A'

9

12(1)

6

10

10

0

-7

31

DIV I

PLAYED

WIN(WON)

DRAW

BAT

BOWL

BONUS

PENALTY

TOTAL

Nbi,Nookers 'A'

10

108(9)

0

16

33

8

-1

164

Swamibapa 'B'

9

84(7)

0

17

33

4

-1

137

Premier

10

72(6)

0

15

34

6

-1

126

Kongonis Dev

11

60(5)

6

16

33

0

-3

112

Ruaraka 'A'

10

60(5)

0

12

24

10

-1

105

Ngara

10

48(4)

0

3

30

8

-4

85

Nbi Gymkhana

10

12(1)

0

10

30

0

0

52

Nbi.Jafferys

8

12(1)

6

5

14

0

-2

35

DIV II

PLAYED

WIN(WON)

DRAW

BAT

BOWL

BONUS

PENALTY

TOTAL

Stray Lions 'B'

10

120(10)

0

8

40

14

0

182

Goan Inst ‘A’

11

72(6)

6

21

31

4

0

134

Golden XI

10

84(7)

0

12

28

10

0

125

Aga Khan

10

72(6)

6

13

28

4

0

119

Sir Ali 'B'

9

60(5)

0

9

24

10

-5

98

SCLYL 'B'

9

36(3)

0

8

25

8

0

77

Simba Union B

10

12(1)

0

7

22

8

-5

44

Qutbis

9

12(1)

0

10

11

0

-2

31

DIV III

PLAYED

WIN(WON)

DRAW

BAT

BOWL

BONUS

PENALTY

TOTAL

Parklands

10

108(9)

0

14

40

6

-3

165

Aaryans

9

72(6)

0

20

30

2

-1

123

Ruaraka 'B'

9

60(5)

0

3

25

12

-1

99

Oshwal XI

10

48(4)

0

4

33

8

0

93

Nbi Nookers 'B'

10

48(4)

0

6

33

4

-1

90

Goan Inst ‘B’

9

48(4)

0

5

21

15

-1

88

Women XI

9

12(1)

0

1

22

2

-1

36