Schools Mini Cricket fixtures

Cricket Kenya have organized a Mini Cricket Tournament which will feature schools from Nairobi Province on Saturday 27^th March 2010 at Ruaraka Sports Club starting at 9:00am and ending at 5:00pm.

It will be a fun filled event that will have the participation of 27 teams (16 boys’ teams and 11 girls’ teams). The boys’ event will be divided into four pools out of which the top team will proceed to the semi finals. The girls’ event on the other hand will be divided into three pools with the top team in each pool and the overall best runner up to contest in the semi finals..

FIXTURES - RUARAKA SPORTS CLUB (27.3.2010)

TIME 9:00AM - 5:00PM

BOYS COMPETITION

POOL A

1. KARURA FOREST PRIMARY SCHOOL

2. MURANG’A ROAD PRIMARY SCHOOL

3. RIVERBANK PRIMARY SCHOOL

4. MUSLIM ACADEMY

1. Karura Forest v Murang’a Road

2. Riverbank Primary v Muslim Academy

3. Muslim Academy v Murang’a Road

4. Riverbank Primary v Karura Forest

5. Murang’a Road v Riverbank Primary

6. Karura Forest v Muslim Academy

POOL B

1. HIGHRIDGE PRIMARY SCHOOL

2. CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL

3. WESTLANDS PRIMARY SCHOOL

4. EBENEZAR SCHOOL

1. City Primary v Highridge Primary

2. Westlands v Ebenezer School

3. City Primary v Westlands

4. Ebenezer v Highridge Primary

5. Highridge v Westlands Primary

6. Ebenezer v City Primary

POOL C

ROYSAMBU PRIMARY SCHOOL

DR. AGGREY PRIMARY SCHOOL

PUMWANI PRIMARY SCHOOL

PANGANI PRIMARY SCHOOL

1. Roysambu Primary v Dr. Aggrey Primary

2. Pumwani Primary v Pangani Primary

3. Roysambu Primary v Pumwani Primary

4. Dr. Aggrey Primary v Pangani Primary

5. Pangani Primary v Roysambu Primary

6. Dr. Aggrey Primary v Pumwani Primary

POOL D

1. BRIGHT STAR ACADEMY

2. MUSLIM PRIMARY SCHOOL

3. ST. MARY’S RUARAKA SCHOOL

4. MATHARE YOUTH

1. Bright Star v Muslim Primary

2. St. Mary’s Ruaraka v Mathare Youth

3. Bright Star v St. Mary’s Ruaraka

4. Mathare Youth v Muslim Primary

5. Mathare Youth v Bright Star

6. Muslim Primary v St. Mary’s Ruaraka

SEMI-FINALS

Winner POOL A v Winner POOL D

Winner POOL B v Winner POOL C

FINALS

Winner SF 1 v Winner SF 2

GIRLS COMPETITION

POOL A

KARURA FOREST PRIMARY SCHOOL

WESTLANDS PRIMARY SCHOOL

RIVERBANK SCHOOL

1. Karura Forest v Westlands Primary

2. Riverbank v Karura Forest

3. Westlands v Riverbank Primary

POOL B

MURANG’A ROAD PRIMARY SCHOOL

HIGHRIDGE PRIMARY SCHOOL

CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL

ROYSAMBU PRIMARY SCHOOL

1. Murang’a Road v Highridge Primary

2. City Primary v Roysambu Primary

3. Murang’a Road v City Primary

4. Roysambu Primary v Highridge

5. Murang’a Road v Roysambu Primary

6. Highridge Primary v City Primary

POOL C

MUSLIM PRIMARY SCHOOL

PUMWANI PRIMARY SCHOOL

PANGANI PRIMARY SCHOOL

DR. AGGREY PRIMARY SCHOOL

1. Muslim Primary v Pumwani Primary

2. Pangani Primary v Dr. Aggrey Primary

3. Muslim Primary v Pangani Primary

4. Dr. Aggrey v Pumwani Primary

5. Muslim Primary v Dr. Aggrey Primary

6. Roysambu Primary v Pangani Primary

SEMI-FINALS

WINNER (A) v WINNER (C)

WINNER (B) v BEST RUNNER-UP

FINALS

WINNER SF1 V WINNER SF 2

Karura Forest win Nairobi junior development tournament

Organiser Joseph Angara writes:

The mini cricket brought together 5 schools all from nairobi namely Westlands Primary, Karura Forest, Muranga Road, Roysambu and the host Highridge Primary School. Each school was represented by 12 kids and i kept 4 girls in each team, so there were a total of 60 kids playing on the day.

They played 8 overs per side and every school played 4 games. The top two went to the finals but we could not play the 3rd and 4th place because of time.

Karura and Highridge played in the very exciting finals. Karura got 50 runs batting first and ended up the winners as Highridge lost needing 2 runs off the last ball.

Alan Sang of Karura was the Player of the tournament, Jane Achieng of Highridge best fielder and Alan Mbuthia of Westlands was the best bowler.

3rd place went to Westlands, Muranga took 4th and Roysambu 5th position.

Menengai Primary win Cricket Kenya Rift Valley Junior Tournament

Menengai Primary School defeated Nakuru Day by 1 run to win the Cricket Kenya Rift Valley Province Junior Cricket tournament played at Nakuru Athletics Club. Menengai scored 61 runs for eight wickets -the target that favorites Nakuru failed to reach. The side needed eight runs in the last over with three wickets in hand failed to do that as Gideon Kipmgeno picked two wickets and forced a run out before Fanuel failed to score two runs of the last ball.
Yusuf Mwangi and George Owino top scored for Menengai with 18 and 16 runs respectively with Hussein Mohammed picking two wickets in the innings.

However, Nakuru Day girls team revenged and defeated Menengai girls by 5 wickets in the girls final also played at the same venue. Ruth Keiro scored a quick fire 21 to achieve the set target of 54 even after Laura Adhiambo had picked three wickets. Daniella Talong had scored 20 for Menengai. Joan Njeri from St. Joseph was voted the best player of the tournament.
St. Joseph was third in the boys with the girls team also being third.

The following were also voted best players:
1. Best Batter (B) –Hamisi Juma (Nakuru)
2. bowler (B)- Charles Amusama (Menengai)
3. Batter (G)- Ruth Keiro (Nakuru)
4. Bowler (G)- Laura Adhiambo (Menengai)
5. Fielder –Marvin Shimenga (Menengai)
6. MVP (B) –Yusuf Mwangi (Menengai)
7. MVP (G) –Joan Njeri (St. Joseph)

The tournament was organised by Cricket Kenya Rift Valley Province Development Officers David Asiji and Joseph Somba. National Ladies team wicketkeeper Maria Aimee was also in attendance to give the new girls morale.

Report courtesy of Dun Okinyo

Report from Girls Mini-tournamnent

This report of the Secondary Girls School mini-tournament comes courtesy of Dun Okinyo:

Defending champions Moi Girls Nairobi Girls successfully retained the Cricket Kenya Girls Secondary Schools championships after edging out former champions Kenya High School in a thrilling final on Saturday at Ngara Sports Club.

Batting first, Moi Girls scored 74 runs all out - a total that looked easy target for Kenya High before two quick wickets from Melvin Atieno changed the proceeding of the game for High to lose by three runs. At the time Atieno struck Kenya High looked poised to reach the target as the openers had put on 24 for the first wicket in four overs.

When Atieno bowled out Kenya High openers for five and ten runs respectively in the third over with the scores on 24, this made all the difference in the match as Kenya High never recovered as wickets continued to fall at regular intervals. However Whitney Musungi top scored with a slow 18 from 34 balls mainly because she lacked partners to help her out in pushing for the target.

Earlier Rachael Mwikandi had top scored with 24 for Moi Girls despite finding it hard to play Cecilia Ouko who was elected best bowler after taking three wickets. Mwikandi and Mercy Cherop put on a fourth wicket stand of 34 runs. Cherop scored 12 runs. Joan Nyaboke, Vanessa Ogega and Roselyn Maina bagged two wickets each. Moi won the last title when it was last held in 2007 by defeating Huruma Girls. Kenya High last won the event in 2006 and had hoped to win it for the second time but Moi had other plans

Moi's captain said the confidence and proper learning of the game is what made the difference in the match they had been ruled out even before the start. "Nobody gave us a chance to win. I don’t know why but we are happy we have defended our title and we look forward to continue working hard and get it going," she said. Her Kenya High counterpart said her team's failure to win the match was due to the inability to use the scoring opportunities that came their way. “We had many loose balls that we would have scored many runs but we wasted them. But that is a by gone and so we need to shift our attention to the coming event where we promise to do well,” Ogega said.
In the third and forth place play offs St. Teresa’s scored 66 runs with two balls to spare to edge out Kenya High second team which had set a target of 64 for the Eastleigh based school. Joan Kering who was elected the best player of the event scored a quick fire 23 for Kenya High but that was overshadowed by unbeaten 25 from Mildred Sambu. Sambu who won the best batter award had earlier bagged two wickets in Kenya High’s innings.

After the matches, Cricket Kenya boss Tom Tikolo, who watched all the matches, expressed confidence with the way the players had carried themselves on the pitch in the few months since they started playing the game in their schools.
He hoped that most of the players to play in the East and Central Africa under19 and 15 championships later in the year will come from those schools.

With Girls cricket taking shape in other provinces the game is likely to gain in popularity amongst them which will create a lot more competition. The presence of the national team players who umpired the match was a big motivation and it’s only a matter of time before the country has more than five girls teams taking part in their own league. Already a select team is taking part in the NPCA league where over 30 players are fighting for the limited space in the side.

Moi Girls retain Girls Title

Moi Girls School have retained the secondary school girls mini-tournament held at Ngara Sports Club on Saturday. Moi girls defeated Kenya High in a close fought match to take the title. Also impressive were St Terasa's.

While it is great to see events like this organised by Cricket Kenya, once again there is so much more that can be done to promote them. A Press release a day before the event is hardly enough notice to expect anyone to be able to sopport it and there needs to be an improvement in official release of results and scores from such events. These are the future representatives of our country we are talking about. No matter whether girls or boys, out youth must be given every chance and every support there is.

Congratulations to Moi Girls and all the others that took part. Good luck to all the others out there trying to make it!

(information sourced through facebook - apologies to Dun Okinyo for the unauthorised use...)