The Coast XI made it a lcean sweep for the local sides against visiting Danish side Dansk last week winning the final game which was reduced to a 20-20 by six wickets.
Dansk lost the toss and were put into bat with CCA restricting them to 100/5 in their allotted overs with the coast bowlers sharing the wickets between them.
CCA's reply got off to a shaly start when Bakir was bowled by Ian Osterg for a duck, but Mohammed Sawjani (49) and Bharat Chavda (40) did enough for to see the home side within striking distance of their target which was in the end reached comfortably with 4 overs to spare.
results courtesy CCA.
Showing posts with label CCA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CCA. Show all posts
Sunday, October 18, 2009
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
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
Friday, July 31, 2009
coast pitch progress 3: Coast Gymkhana
Top Left: Taken July 28 2009,
top right:Taken July 28 2009,
Bottom Left:Taken May 17 2009
Bottom Right: Taken may 7th 2009
Once again, this looks like pretty good progress to me. How given this obviously visible progress can the ICC possibly say the grounds will not be ready. Looking at the most recent picture, this is a far better ground condition than we have seen from many sub-continent Test matches. Once again a different rule for the full members to the associates. Poor form ICC!
Progress on pitches at coast 2: MSC
photo on left taken on May 17 by CCA, photo on right taken 28 July 09 by CCA.
Again, this is looking pretty good to be ready by Feb...
Progress on pitches at coast 1: Aaryans (practice venue)
Aaryan Ground (was to be used as a practice pitch)
right photo taken May 17 2009 by CCA
left photo taken June 28 by CCA
Looks like it will be more than ready by February 2010 to me
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Up and running. Sort of
Well the NPCA season has now got under way, though there is still no news available on the net as to results from the first round of games played on Sunday.
Official results will come out in the next day or so and I will make these available on CricketEurope Kenya as soon as I get them, but if anyone in Nairobi is able to send me ANY INFO at all in the meanwhile, that would be great.
No news yet either from the coast after the 'rules of engagement' were posted on their website last month. Emails to the CCA have met with a stony silence, so one can only hope things will/are going ahead as normal there.
As for the Cricket Kenya webpage, the less said the better. all it is doing so far is irritating those who are faithful enough to keep checking it. Hardly a way to build traffic.
Official results will come out in the next day or so and I will make these available on CricketEurope Kenya as soon as I get them, but if anyone in Nairobi is able to send me ANY INFO at all in the meanwhile, that would be great.
No news yet either from the coast after the 'rules of engagement' were posted on their website last month. Emails to the CCA have met with a stony silence, so one can only hope things will/are going ahead as normal there.
As for the Cricket Kenya webpage, the less said the better. all it is doing so far is irritating those who are faithful enough to keep checking it. Hardly a way to build traffic.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Waiting, Waiting, Waiting
It is a case of suspense in Kenyan cricket at the moment. Nairobi and Coast are due to start their seasons about now, but the NPCA season has been put back until this weekend due to reshuffles of the schedule brought about be the withdrawal of Kongonis from the Super Division and Stray Lions delay in naming their home venue. The CCA season should also be about to start, but if anyone knows anything about it, they are being very tight lipped. It is almost as though the game is being kept behind a shroud of secrecy - hardly the way to woo a public already skeptical about its sport.
Meanwhile at national level, we are also waiting for the delayed elections and for the players to come back to Cricket Kenya with their signed contracts (or if this has already happened for CK to tell us about it). Confirmation of the various A team tours should also be on its way to us soon, so at least there will be some cricket ahead for the national side before the Twenty-20 World Cup in September and Intercontinental Cup in October. Talk is also of a warm up quadrangular in Nairobi before the trip to South Africa, but again we must wait for confirmation from the national boards.
On the internet front, Cricket Kenya have once again tried to get a website up and running, but we are still waiting for it to be made even remotely up to date. So far, the front page still shows news from BEFORE the World Cup, and few of the buttons work. A web presence is all very well, but it needs to be kept up to date.
So we wait. At least cricket returns to the field in Nairobi this weekend, but as for the others, we can only hold our breath. Let's hope its not for too long...
Meanwhile at national level, we are also waiting for the delayed elections and for the players to come back to Cricket Kenya with their signed contracts (or if this has already happened for CK to tell us about it). Confirmation of the various A team tours should also be on its way to us soon, so at least there will be some cricket ahead for the national side before the Twenty-20 World Cup in September and Intercontinental Cup in October. Talk is also of a warm up quadrangular in Nairobi before the trip to South Africa, but again we must wait for confirmation from the national boards.
On the internet front, Cricket Kenya have once again tried to get a website up and running, but we are still waiting for it to be made even remotely up to date. So far, the front page still shows news from BEFORE the World Cup, and few of the buttons work. A web presence is all very well, but it needs to be kept up to date.
So we wait. At least cricket returns to the field in Nairobi this weekend, but as for the others, we can only hold our breath. Let's hope its not for too long...
Friday, June 15, 2007
Gearing up for the new season
Despite a deafening silence from Nairobi, the NPCA season has kicked off with Kanbis reigning supreme in the 6-a-side competition used to open the new season. This should mean that we will hear some news on the Main League soon. Fingers crossed that the Vortex Goat will remain absent this year...
Movement is also under way at the coast where the CCA have released the playing conditions and documents required by teams and players for the 2007/8 season. It is all very official looking with no real explanations, but it looks at first glance as though there will be an 80 over format played as well as the 50-over league and knockout tournaments. Great to see that the CCA at least are trying to give their players at least a slightly longer format of the game. Perhaps this is to get their players used to bowling longer spells and building innings for when the national comp finally kicks off. I hope I am not being too optimistic, but what chance that the NPCA will follow suit?
Hopefully this season, we will be able to improve our coverage, but this requires feedback from the players and clubs. If you are involved with cricket in Kenya, I urge you to get in touch so that we can get news and results out there quickly and accurately.
In a separate development, Cricket Kenya are making a second attempt at getting their website up and going. Hopefully, it will work out better than the last one! So far, it is still very out of date and very much 'under construction' with most of the links either blank or not working. I have never the less put the link to it back on the side bar so people can log in and check its progress.
They have a section for domestic results, so I can only pray that they are actually going to keep this updated and not let the goat anywhere near it.
Let us know your thoughts.
Movement is also under way at the coast where the CCA have released the playing conditions and documents required by teams and players for the 2007/8 season. It is all very official looking with no real explanations, but it looks at first glance as though there will be an 80 over format played as well as the 50-over league and knockout tournaments. Great to see that the CCA at least are trying to give their players at least a slightly longer format of the game. Perhaps this is to get their players used to bowling longer spells and building innings for when the national comp finally kicks off. I hope I am not being too optimistic, but what chance that the NPCA will follow suit?
Hopefully this season, we will be able to improve our coverage, but this requires feedback from the players and clubs. If you are involved with cricket in Kenya, I urge you to get in touch so that we can get news and results out there quickly and accurately.
In a separate development, Cricket Kenya are making a second attempt at getting their website up and going. Hopefully, it will work out better than the last one! So far, it is still very out of date and very much 'under construction' with most of the links either blank or not working. I have never the less put the link to it back on the side bar so people can log in and check its progress.
They have a section for domestic results, so I can only pray that they are actually going to keep this updated and not let the goat anywhere near it.
Let us know your thoughts.
Friday, June 01, 2007
Self Governance - A masterplan for a domestic competition
Happy Madaraka Day. On this anniversary of internal self rule, I thought it would be appropriate to post on something that has been ticking away in the back of my mind for some time now.
Kenyan cricket is at a cross roads. We continue to do well at a senior One Day level, but have not been so successful at either junior level, or at multi day cricket at the senior level. It is not rocket science as to why. For a cricket player to improve, they need to play regularly against decent opposition. Currently, Kenya has no domestic structure that allows for our top players at any age level to play each other enough. The NPCA leagues are the best in the country, but our best players are split between three divisions and the format is only limited overs.
Cricket Kenya have said since they got in that they will address this, but I am sure that I am not alone in wondering when it will actually happen. There was a national tournament mooted for late last year/early this year, but rains and the WCL scuppered that plan. So far, there seems to be no news on when it will happen, and this is a major worry.
Looking at the situation in Kenyan cricket, I have come up with my own idea on how things could be addressed, but first there are a few facts that need to be established:
Because of the importance of the current club structure, my model would try to leave as much of the June-November window free for club cricket as possible. This is after all the grass roots of the game and must be protected.
Assuming 4 weekends in January and February are available and 2 in March, some inroads to November and possibly October would be needed for a national competition.
Though the aim of this model is to introduce multi-day cricket to the players, it also aims to give the top players practice against each other at both One Day and 20-20 level as well. Thus a league system would be set up with each team playing the others in the following:
1 x 2-day game (Sat & Sun)
1 x 50-overs (One Day) game (Sun)
1x 20-20 game. (Sat afternoon)
Host teams would alternate on a yearly basis with a team hosting the 2-day game one year and the one-day and 20-20 the next.
To achieve this, the following time frames would be needed:
To put the emphasis on the 2-day games I propose the following points system based on an amended version several existing scoring systems:
2-Day game:
1st innings lead: 6 points.
Outright win: 16 points.
Draw: 6 points each
Bonus batting points at 150, 200, 250 and 300 runs per innings (4 max per innings)
Bonus fielding points at: 3wkts, 6 wkts, 8 wkts and 10 wkts per innings (4 max per innings)
Total available points: 38
1 Day Game:
Outright win: 16 points
Bonus batting and fielding points as above.
Total points available: 24
20-20 game:
Outright win: 10 points
bonus batting points at: 125, 175, 225, 250 (max 4)
bonus bowling points at; 3, 6, 8, 10 wickets (max 4)
total points available: 18
These may well need to be re-jigged, but give a basic starting point.
TEAMS
In terms of which teams should be included, I have worked on both the current relative strengths of the regions, future potential, youth growth and regional promotion. I believe the following table gives the best guide to how such a competition should be set up:
9 As above + 1 depending on where required, etc for more teams.
As of April 2007, RVCA considered themselves too weak to compete in such a competition. Realistically however, they are unlikely to be much worse than the CCA and if bolstered by U19 players, they would almost certainly hold their own. As yet, Western hardly exist, but there is immense potential that needs to be encouraged there.
Any of the top 3 options could be implemented immediately with the others being introduced as development in regions such as Western Kenya and Rift Valley start to produce more and better players. Note that the division of players in shared teams would be discretionary and left up to the selecting committee of such teams with guidelines on a minimum number of players from each area.
Note also that the current U19 team are almost all from the NPCA, so until other regions improved to contribute more players, this would in affect give NPCA 3 teams in the competition.
The inclusion of Uganda and Tanzania would obviously depend on their boards and their willingness to participate. Benefits of their inclusion would mean the tournament would be more appealing to sponsors and it would help raise the level of cricket in the region. The make up of the teams would be left up to the boards and, as they get stronger, there would be no reason why these could not be development teams rather than full squads - similar to the team Kenya sent to the Logan Cup. Uganda may well already be at this stage, Tanzania probably not quite yet.
SPONSORSHIP
This is the crux on which such a competition would rest.
I believe the best system would be for a major sponsor to cover the tournament as a whole and then each team be separately sponsored as a franchise. There would have to be a limit on professional players from overseas - I'd suggest 1 per squad, and there would have to be a salary cap. However, I believe it would be a good idea to allow, and indeed encourage, sponsors to spend as much as they wanted in developing the game in their feeder clubs/area.
Money from the event sponsor would need to be allocated to provide regular feed to the media. Ideally this would include full write ups and scorecards in print media as well as highlights packages on TV and radio. This would help grow the supporter base for each team and in time could be expanded to include some live coverage as well.
Sponsorship dollars would also be needed to carry out an aggressive marketing campaign using the top players from each team and incentives such as luck gate prizes and 'catch a six and win' promotions. Initially, fans (especially those who know little or nothing about cricket) will need to be 'bribed' to attend matches. Use of music and entertainment between over/wickets and innings also needs to be looked at, especially in the one day and 20-20 matches. With other spectator sports in the country really suffering, this is an ideal time to promote the game, but as I said, people will initially need other incentives than just the cricket . In time this will change as new people learn about and get hooked on the game and teams will begin to build solid fan bases. It is this goal that must be kept in mind.
The Associates are constantly whining about not getting matches against the top teams, but we also need to start with some decent self-governance. Here's hoping Cricket Kenya follows something along these lines and soon!
Kenyan cricket is at a cross roads. We continue to do well at a senior One Day level, but have not been so successful at either junior level, or at multi day cricket at the senior level. It is not rocket science as to why. For a cricket player to improve, they need to play regularly against decent opposition. Currently, Kenya has no domestic structure that allows for our top players at any age level to play each other enough. The NPCA leagues are the best in the country, but our best players are split between three divisions and the format is only limited overs.
Cricket Kenya have said since they got in that they will address this, but I am sure that I am not alone in wondering when it will actually happen. There was a national tournament mooted for late last year/early this year, but rains and the WCL scuppered that plan. So far, there seems to be no news on when it will happen, and this is a major worry.
Looking at the situation in Kenyan cricket, I have come up with my own idea on how things could be addressed, but first there are a few facts that need to be established:
- Cricket in Kenya is currently played almost exclusively on Sundays.
- Due to weather and Christmas, there are two windows in the year when cricket can be played: June to November and January to early March. A total of 8 months.
- The core of cricket in Kenya is the regional tournaments run by NPCA, CCA and RVCA.
Because of the importance of the current club structure, my model would try to leave as much of the June-November window free for club cricket as possible. This is after all the grass roots of the game and must be protected.
Assuming 4 weekends in January and February are available and 2 in March, some inroads to November and possibly October would be needed for a national competition.
Though the aim of this model is to introduce multi-day cricket to the players, it also aims to give the top players practice against each other at both One Day and 20-20 level as well. Thus a league system would be set up with each team playing the others in the following:
1 x 2-day game (Sat & Sun)
1 x 50-overs (One Day) game (Sun)
1x 20-20 game. (Sat afternoon)
Host teams would alternate on a yearly basis with a team hosting the 2-day game one year and the one-day and 20-20 the next.
To achieve this, the following time frames would be needed:
|
2-Day game:
1st innings lead: 6 points.
Outright win: 16 points.
Draw: 6 points each
Bonus batting points at 150, 200, 250 and 300 runs per innings (4 max per innings)
Bonus fielding points at: 3wkts, 6 wkts, 8 wkts and 10 wkts per innings (4 max per innings)
Total available points: 38
1 Day Game:
Outright win: 16 points
Bonus batting and fielding points as above.
Total points available: 24
20-20 game:
Outright win: 10 points
bonus batting points at: 125, 175, 225, 250 (max 4)
bonus bowling points at; 3, 6, 8, 10 wickets (max 4)
total points available: 18
These may well need to be re-jigged, but give a basic starting point.
TEAMS
In terms of which teams should be included, I have worked on both the current relative strengths of the regions, future potential, youth growth and regional promotion. I believe the following table gives the best guide to how such a competition should be set up:
| # of teams | NPCA | CCA | RVCA | Western | Ken U19 | Uganda | Tanzania |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
As of April 2007, RVCA considered themselves too weak to compete in such a competition. Realistically however, they are unlikely to be much worse than the CCA and if bolstered by U19 players, they would almost certainly hold their own. As yet, Western hardly exist, but there is immense potential that needs to be encouraged there.
Any of the top 3 options could be implemented immediately with the others being introduced as development in regions such as Western Kenya and Rift Valley start to produce more and better players. Note that the division of players in shared teams would be discretionary and left up to the selecting committee of such teams with guidelines on a minimum number of players from each area.
Note also that the current U19 team are almost all from the NPCA, so until other regions improved to contribute more players, this would in affect give NPCA 3 teams in the competition.
The inclusion of Uganda and Tanzania would obviously depend on their boards and their willingness to participate. Benefits of their inclusion would mean the tournament would be more appealing to sponsors and it would help raise the level of cricket in the region. The make up of the teams would be left up to the boards and, as they get stronger, there would be no reason why these could not be development teams rather than full squads - similar to the team Kenya sent to the Logan Cup. Uganda may well already be at this stage, Tanzania probably not quite yet.
SPONSORSHIP
This is the crux on which such a competition would rest.
I believe the best system would be for a major sponsor to cover the tournament as a whole and then each team be separately sponsored as a franchise. There would have to be a limit on professional players from overseas - I'd suggest 1 per squad, and there would have to be a salary cap. However, I believe it would be a good idea to allow, and indeed encourage, sponsors to spend as much as they wanted in developing the game in their feeder clubs/area.
Money from the event sponsor would need to be allocated to provide regular feed to the media. Ideally this would include full write ups and scorecards in print media as well as highlights packages on TV and radio. This would help grow the supporter base for each team and in time could be expanded to include some live coverage as well.
Sponsorship dollars would also be needed to carry out an aggressive marketing campaign using the top players from each team and incentives such as luck gate prizes and 'catch a six and win' promotions. Initially, fans (especially those who know little or nothing about cricket) will need to be 'bribed' to attend matches. Use of music and entertainment between over/wickets and innings also needs to be looked at, especially in the one day and 20-20 matches. With other spectator sports in the country really suffering, this is an ideal time to promote the game, but as I said, people will initially need other incentives than just the cricket . In time this will change as new people learn about and get hooked on the game and teams will begin to build solid fan bases. It is this goal that must be kept in mind.
The Associates are constantly whining about not getting matches against the top teams, but we also need to start with some decent self-governance. Here's hoping Cricket Kenya follows something along these lines and soon!
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Kanbis, Holding and is the goat back?
Due to my commitments at Cricket Europe and trying to get everything in my paid job back on track since returning from the WCL, things have been a bit hectic - hence the lack of regular posts. Will try to do better.
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This does not mean there has been a lack of things to comment on in Kenyan cricket:
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Last week, Kanbis showed that once again they are going to be the team to beat in the NPCA tournament. They earlier secured their longterm future by completing a deal with Eastleigh Secondary School whereby they will revamp the school's abandoned soccer pitch and thereby ensure that nothing but cricket gets played on the cricket oval, as well as working towards setting up a cricket academy within the school. Last weekend both A and B teams registered big wins in their first games of the 20-20 competition - with 2 teams performing so well, there has to be a case for them to perhaps enter 3rd and 4th string sides into the lower divisions as well. Where they lead, others will be forced to follow if they hope to break the Kanbis dominance. One thing however is that the Vortex Goat seems to reside just outside their ground eating their communications as well as Mama Mweni's lingerie from the washing line. Anyone with any contacts at Kanbis please get them to return my emails. A full roundup of last week's NPCA matches and RVCA's Woolmatt Cup game can be found here on CricketEurope - Kenya.
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All credit to Tanmay Mishra for his second placing in the Most Promising category of the Sports Personality of the year. Hopefully the whole team will be able to back up their 2003 effort and win this award again next year!
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Not only is the Goat disrupting transmissions from Nairobi, but seems to have firmly established a second fiefdom in Mombasa. Maybe it is the upcoming World Cross Country Champs that attract it with the horde of journalist that can feed it, or maybe it is the added salt in the Sukuma, but once again it is getting in the way of cricket news from the CCA. For all that comes out of there in terms of results, one would think cricket in the area is dead, gone, no more. Someone please prove otherwise. It does not look good that the home region of the Cricket Kenya Chairman is so quiet. Time for Mbuzi Choma Coast-Style?
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As for Michael Holding's comments? REMEMBER PUNE 1996! Maybe we should send the goat over to Jamaica to give him a butt up the butt - or is it a case of Mbuzi kabisa siwezi kumbuka!
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Apologies to all fluent Kiswahili speakers for mangling their beautiful language.
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This does not mean there has been a lack of things to comment on in Kenyan cricket:
.
Last week, Kanbis showed that once again they are going to be the team to beat in the NPCA tournament. They earlier secured their longterm future by completing a deal with Eastleigh Secondary School whereby they will revamp the school's abandoned soccer pitch and thereby ensure that nothing but cricket gets played on the cricket oval, as well as working towards setting up a cricket academy within the school. Last weekend both A and B teams registered big wins in their first games of the 20-20 competition - with 2 teams performing so well, there has to be a case for them to perhaps enter 3rd and 4th string sides into the lower divisions as well. Where they lead, others will be forced to follow if they hope to break the Kanbis dominance. One thing however is that the Vortex Goat seems to reside just outside their ground eating their communications as well as Mama Mweni's lingerie from the washing line. Anyone with any contacts at Kanbis please get them to return my emails. A full roundup of last week's NPCA matches and RVCA's Woolmatt Cup game can be found here on CricketEurope - Kenya.
.
All credit to Tanmay Mishra for his second placing in the Most Promising category of the Sports Personality of the year. Hopefully the whole team will be able to back up their 2003 effort and win this award again next year!
.
Not only is the Goat disrupting transmissions from Nairobi, but seems to have firmly established a second fiefdom in Mombasa. Maybe it is the upcoming World Cross Country Champs that attract it with the horde of journalist that can feed it, or maybe it is the added salt in the Sukuma, but once again it is getting in the way of cricket news from the CCA. For all that comes out of there in terms of results, one would think cricket in the area is dead, gone, no more. Someone please prove otherwise. It does not look good that the home region of the Cricket Kenya Chairman is so quiet. Time for Mbuzi Choma Coast-Style?
.
As for Michael Holding's comments? REMEMBER PUNE 1996! Maybe we should send the goat over to Jamaica to give him a butt up the butt - or is it a case of Mbuzi kabisa siwezi kumbuka!
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Apologies to all fluent Kiswahili speakers for mangling their beautiful language.
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