Kenya's remaining fixtures for the Intercontinental Cup released but 1 short

the ICC has announced the remaining fixtures for the Intercontinental Cup 09-10 season but there seems to be a fixture missing.

Kenya is scheduled to take on Scotland from January 25 to 28th at home and then host Afghanistan from 2nd to 5th October, but no mention of the hosting the Dutch...

Great to see though that the final will be played over 5 days as per a Test match. Hope our guys can get there and at least be able to say they have played a game over that length.

Full list as released by the ICC:

ICC INTERCONTINENTAL CUP
23-26 Jan – Afghanistan v Ireland, Sri Lanka
25-28 Jan – Kenya v Scotland, Kenya
17-20 Feb – Afghanistan v Canada, UAE
10-13 Jun – Netherlands v Scotland, Netherlands
11-14 Aug – Scotland v Afghanistan, Scotland
11-14 Aug – Ireland v Netherlands, Ireland
21-24 Aug – Canada v Zimbabwe XI, Canada
1-4 Sep – Canada v Ireland, Canada
1-4 Sep – Netherlands v Zimbabwe XI, Netherlands
2-5 Oct – Kenya v Afghanistan, Kenya
6-9 Oct – Zimbabwe XI v Ireland, Africa
13-16 Oct – Zimbabwe XI v Scotland, Africa
25-29 Nov – FINAL (five days), UAE

ICC INTERCONTINENTAL SHIELD
20-23 Jan – UAE v Uganda, UAE
2-5 Apr – Namibia v Bermuda, Namibia
5-8 Jul – Bermuda v UAE, Bermuda
18-21 Sep – Uganda v Namibia, Uganda
25-28 Nov – FINAL, UAE

U17 Results Day 3

1. Kongonis 85 all out wkts in 17.1 overs
Simba Union 87/5 wkts in 17.3 overs

Simba Union won by 5 wickets

2. Sir Ali 54 all out in 18 overs
Umar Slatch 25,
Raj Savala 3/15, Emmanuel Bundi 3/19, Nikit Shah 2/10
Gymkhana 57/1 in 6 overs
Ken Owino 27, Irfan Karim 17,
Hamza Malik 1/9

Gymkhana won by 9 wickets

3. Kanbis A 202/5 wkts in 30 overs
Ravikant 78, Alpesh Khetani 41, Dhiren 21
Anshul 2/31
Hillcrest 164/10 wkts in 29.2 overs
Neel Shah 25, Tippy Lane 23

Kanbis A won by 38 runs

4. SCLYL 282 all out in 29.2 overs
Kanbis B 37 all out in 14.1 overs

SCLYL won by 245 runs

5. Swamibapa 187/3 in 30 overs
Pankaj Sanghani 102 n.o, Nihar Shah 26, Pankaj Kerai 23
Tarun Patel 2/35, Jatin Waghela 1/23
Goan Institute 76 all out in 18.4 overs
Tarun Patel 24, Rajan Patel 13
Pankaj Hirani 4/15, Sameer Hirani 3/20,

Swamibapa won by 111 runs

6. Jafferys 197/7 wkts in 30 overs
Ahmed Bulhan 70, Tristan Oliff 28, Kaunain Assaria
Veer Dave 1/12, Nabil Shamji 1/14
Aga Khan 89/10 wkts in 18.4 overs
Zain Khawanda 45, Karan Gupta 10
Kaunain Assaria 3/22, Abbas Kalyan 3/22

Jafferys won by 108 runs

Today are semi-finals for main event and plate event.

Main Event:

Nairobi Gymkhana v SCLYL at Nairobi Gymkhana Kanbis 'A' v Kongonis at Eastleigh Sec.Sch

Plate:
Simba Union v Swamibapa at Sir Ali
Nbi.Jafferys v Hillcrest at Sir Ali at 1.30p.m

Tomorrow will be play - off for 3 and 4 position and 7 and 8 positions together with the finals

Cricket Kenya Nairobi Province Under 17 League Points Table after Day 2

Team	P	W	L	T	N/R	Net RR	Pts
Kanbis A	2	2	0	0	0	+8.96	4
Hillcrest	2	1	1	0	0	+1.09	2
Jafferys	2	1	1	0	0	+4.19	2
Aga Khan	2	0	2	0	0	-14.24	0

Team	P	W	L	T	N/R	Net RR	Pts
Gymkhana	2	2	0	0	0	+1.78	4
Goan Institute	2	1	1	0	0		2
Sir Ali Club	2	1	1	0	0		2
Swamibapa	2	0	2	0	0	-0.23	0

Team	P	W	L	T	N/R	Net RR	Pts
Kongonis	2	2	0	0	0	+12.43	4
SCLYL	2	1	1	0	0	+2.61	2
Simba Union	2	1	1	0	0	-1.04	2
Kanbis B	2	0	2	0	0		0

CK Nairobi Province U17 Summarised Results Day 2

1. Kongonis 192/9 wkts in 30 overs
Martin Okoth 63, Harrison Ambani 37, Joseph Owino 28
Jigar Kerai 3/31
SCLYL 71/10 wkts in 14 overs
Rahul Harish 22, Vishal Bhojani 11
Harrison Ambani 5/18, Joseph Onyango 3/21

Kongonis won by 121 runs

2. Simba Union 223/4 wkts in 30 overs
Simarpreet Singh 65, Gursimran Singh 60, Tarandeep Singh 42
Miten Manji 3/40
Kanbis B 59/10 wkts in 24 overs
Vinod Vekaria 11, Mehul Devshi 8,

Simba Union won by 143 runs

3. Kanbis A 231/5 wkts in 20 overs
Ravikant Khetani 86, Alpesh Khetani 55, Dhiren Gundaria 43
Nabil Shamji 3/27, Karan Gupta 2/50
Aga Khan 51/10 wkts in 12 overs
Ali Saif 22
Vimal Kanti 3/5, Kush Gorsia 3/12,

Kanbis A won by 180 runs

4. Swamibapa 173/7 wkts in 30 overs
Pankaj Sanghani 111 n.o., Mayur Pindolia 27
Emmanuel Bundi 3/20, Sagar Shah 2/35
Gymkhana 176/6 wkts in 29.2 overs
Irfan Karim 79, Michael Shikori 45, Ken Owino 21
Pankaj Hirani 3/25, Mayur Pindolia 3/30

Gymkhana won by 4 wickets

5. Hillcrest 51/10 wkts in 18 overs
Bimal Sumna 8, Mayur Ranna 7
Jafferys 53/4 wkts in 9 overs
Kaunain Assaria 19, Ahmed Bulhan 11
Tom Lane 3/25

Jafferys won by 6 wickets

6. Goan Institute beat Sir Ali

CK Nairobi Province U17 Summarised Results Day 1

1. Kanbis B 48/10 wkts in 19.5 overs
Hiren Govind 11, Avinash Mavji 8,
Joseph Owino 7/6,
Kongonis 50/2 wkts in 5 overs
Joseph Onyango 19 n.o., Emmanuel Opura 12
Nishit Mavji 1/19

Kongonis won by 8 wkts

2. Goan Institute 108/10 wkts in 28.2 overs
Maulik Patel 35, Rajan Patel 13
Nikit Shah 4/14, Raj Savala 2/13
Gymkhana 110/3 wkts in 21.2 overs
Nikit Shah 37 n.o., Irfan Karim 21 n.o.
Tarun Patel 2/27

Gymkhana won by 7 wickets

3. Simba Union 91/10 wkts in 17.3 overs
Simranprit Singh 31, Tarandeep Singh 24,
Jigar Kerai 4/29, Vishal Bhojani 2/7, Rahul Vishram 2/18
SCLYL 93/0 wkts in 9.4 overs
Rahul Vishram 67 n.o., Chetan Hirani 19 n.o.

SCLYL won by 10 wkts

4. Hillcrest 201/6 wkts in 25 overs
Niheel Patel 80, Tippy Lane 46, Tom McLin 31,
Shoail Shah 2/46, Nabil Shamji 1/21
Aga Khan 69/10 wkts
Raja Upadhya 12
Paddy Lane 2/9, Gaurav Shah 2/14

Hillcrest won by 132 runs

Kanbis A awarded a walkover over Jaffreys

Sir Ali awarded a walkover over Swamibapa

Day Night Cricket at SCLPSYL

SHREE CUTCHI LEVA PATEL SAMAJ YOUTH LEAGUE NAIROBI WILL BE HOSTING A DAY-NIGHT CRICKET MATCH (CRICKET KENYA CHAIRMAN’S XI VS NPCA SELECT XI) ON SATURDAY 12TH DECEMBER 2009 STARTING 3.15 PM.

SCLPS YOUTH LEAGUE WILL ALSO BE HOSTING CRICKET MATCHES UNDER LIGHTS AND NATURAL LIGHT FROM 10TH DECEMBER 2009 FOR ITS COMMUNITY MEMBERS. THE TEAMS SHALL BE NAMED UNDER A NATIVE VILLAGE IN INDIA AND THE TEAM MEMBERS SHALL BE FROM THE CURRENT NPCA LEAGUE.

THE ABOVE TOURNAMENT HAS BEEN SPONSORED BY:-
1. MAIN SPONSOR - SAFARICOM LTD.
2. C0-SPONSOR - KRYSTALLINE SALT LTD
TATA HOLDINGS


TOURNAMENT FORMAT (NATIVE VILLAGE TEAMS)

 The tournament is “10 : 10” (T10) cricket i.e. 10 overs per team.
 The organizers shall provide the team shirt/t-shirt. All teams must be properly dressed.
 The organizers shall provide match balls. (Either new or used).
 Each team to provide own equipments i.e. bats, gloves, helmet etc. The organizers shall provide batting pads and wicket-keeping pads.
 All teams will be required to adhere strictly to the schedules to be provided; teams must be ready to play at the required start time. Teams arriving late will be penalized one batting over for every 5 minutes they are late.
 Teams bowling will be required to complete their allocated 10 overs within 40 minutes. The umpires will call the innings to an end after 40 minutes (at their sole discretion). Any uncompleted over will result in a penalty of 20 runs against the bowling team’s batting total. Any time wasting by batsman will be determined at the sole discretion of the umpires and will result in a 10 run penalty of the batting side’s total.
 All players bar wicket-keeper must bowl one over.
 Batsman must retire after scoring 25 runs.
 One batting power play over after the 5th over. Any runs scored in this particular over would be double i.e. (if a six is hit it would be counted as twelve runs).
 Normal rules of one day cricket shall apply.
 Umpires decision is final, any dissent or argument will be penalized.
 Taking of ALCOHOL, DRUGS & CHEWING OF MIRAA is strictly prohibited. Anyone found doing so will be ejected out of the Samaj premises.
 Samaj will not be held responsible for any of the injuries that may occur while playing.


GENERAL

THE ENTRANCE IS FREE.
THERE WOULD BE LOT OF FOOD STALLS (VEGETARIAN ONLY) AT AFFORDABLE PRICES & A REFRESHMENT COUNTER.

Cubs and Swamibapa win in Nakuru

PBH Royal cubs took on Melvins in Game 11 of the Crown Berger 20-20 Tournament in Nakuru and gave their opponents all sorts of difficulty. Melvins batting first lost regular and cheap wickets yet still managed to reach 118/8 in their 20 overs thanks mainly to a solo effort by Saad (?) who made 40 and the Cubs bowlers who gave away a huge 41 extras. Only one other Melvins batsman made it to double figures.

Wickets for the Royal Cubs were shared around with Bilal ? (1/9), Raj ? (1/12) Jaymin ? (2/19), Harshil ? (1/10), and Divyang ? (1/15) all contributing to the cause.

Cubs reply got off to a shaky start with both openers falling cheaply but then Bilal (41) and Divyang (45*) combined to steer their side to an easy win. Cubs finished on 124/4 with 6 overs still remaining. Pick of Mevins bowlers was Patshi ? who picked up 2 wickets.

In game 12, Swamibapa won the toss and opted to bat against Spinknit. Anil ?, Swamibapa's opener carried hie bat for the innings with a wonderful 67 and combined with 44 from number 3, Jogesh ? a huge total looked on the cards. As it was, Spinknit fought back with a flurry of late wickets, but Anil remained to the end and Swamibapa finished on an imposing 149/6.

Spinknit never looked in the game against the tight bowling ofscrews, they folded to 107 all out.

Stray Lions B into 40 over Group B final

Yesterday the second semifinal of the 40 over bags and bailers tournament Group B played between Straylions B and Agakhan at Sir Ali Muslim Club.

Straylions B won the toss and elected bat first and they scored 232/7 in 40 overs. Arun Balaraman top scored with 61 not out. The other main contributors with the bat are Ram 32, Anand Ranganathan 27, Chirag Sheth 26, Shezad 25 and Hiren Varaiya 21. The wiket taking bowlers for Agakhan are Keval 3-33, Harshit 1-46 and Sajjad 1-52.

In replya Agakhan managed to score 180 allout. The main run getters for Agakhan are Sajjad 52, Omondi 31, Karim 28, Bunty 27. The wicket takers for Starylions B are Hiren Varaiya 4-22, John Mayaka 2-33, Suresh 1-23, Thota Sreenivas 1-32 and Anand Ranganathan 1-33.

Straylions B will play with Goan Institute A in final of the tournament.

Thanks to Thota Sreenivas for the match report

U17 Leagues another step in the right direction

Cricket Kenya have come under criticism in the last couple of years for focussing exclusively on the national team at the expense of cricket development in the country. 2009 has seen a dramatic shift in that policy with development competitions being orgaqnised at all levels. The latest of these is the Cricket Kenya U17 leagues which will be held on a regional basis. Nairobi, not surprisingly has the greatest number of teams in their league with 12, but both Rift Valley (3 teams) and Coast (4 teams) will also be in action.

Below is the Cricket Kenya Press release including tournament rules. We will endeavour to bring you what results we can.

Starting this Saturday 5th December 2009 Cricket Kenya have organized cricket leagues in three provinces namely; Nairobi, Rift Valley and Coast Provinces.
Nairobi has twelve teams as listed below:
• Kanbis A
• Nairobi Jafferys
• Aga Khan
• Hillcrest
• Gymkhana
• Goan Institute
• Swamibapa
• Sir Ali
• Kongonis
• Kanbis B
• Sree Cutchi Leva Youth League
• Simba Union
Rift Valley has been split into three teams:
• Stars
• Flamingoes
• Craters
While Coast Province will feature four sides made up of the boys from schools and clubs:-
• Coast Tusks
• Kilindini
• Oceanic
• Nyali Stars
Rules for Nairobi and Coast Competitions:
1. The matches are of 30 overs duration.
2. Any one bowler is limited to 6 overs
3. Powerplay are 6 : 3 : 3: 12 overs in total
4. Other ICC One Day rules apply

Rules For Rift Valley Competition:
1. All the matches will be of 25 overs duration
2. Any one bowler can bowl a maximum of 5 overs
3. Power play overs 10 overs taken in bits of 5:3:2
4. Other ICC rules apply