Samaj School clearly the leaders in the development game

SCLPS clearly showed their dominance in the development stakes as both A and B teams took out their respective finals, while St Marys were the third victorious side. The number of new names to followers of Kenyan cricket should be as exciting as it must be daunting for the incumbents in the national age group sides. Perhaps if events like this were run before regional age group finals, Kenya would field stronger sides...

Report and results courtesy of the NPCA:

FINALS FOR THE NAIROBI SECONDARY SCHOOL LEAGUE HELD ON

20^TH MARCH, 2010 AT NAIROBI GYMKHANA AND SIMBA UNION.

17 schools had participated in the tournament and the finals concluded on Saturday 20^th March 2010. The occasion was graced by most of the schools, NPCA committee headed by our Chairman, Kenyan Cricket team with the coach, the school organizing committee and all the Development Officers from Cricket Kenya and Supporters. Prize giving was done in the afternoon and each and every participant in this league was issued a certificate.

POOL A

S.C.L.P.S “A” 142/4 (RAHUL HARISH 66, PANKAJ NARENDRA 24, SANDIP KERAI 25, TOM NICKLN 2/32)

DEFEATED

HILLCREST “A” 55/10 (PADDY CANRIFF 13, NEHAL PINDOLIA 10, NILESH MANDANI 2/8, BHAVESH HALAI 2/7, NITIN HARISH 2/9, PARTH KAKAD 2/4)

87 RUNS

POOL B

PARKLANDS BOYS 103/10 (EMMANUEL BUNDI 26, KEN OWINO 21, JAMES MWANGI 12, YOGESH KABARIA 2/24, DIPAK PATEL 3/8, JIGAR KERAI 4/11)

LOST TO

S.C.L.P.S “B” 104/4 (DIPAK PATEL 22, YOGESH KABARIA 36, NIRAJ VAKARIA 15, EMMANUEL BUNDI 1/12, MARTIN OKOTH 2/19, BOAZ ONYANGO 1/28)

BY 6 WICKETS

POOL C

NAIROBI SCHOOL 68/10 (JAIKRAT SINGH 10, COLLINS LESALON 13, NAWFAL COCKAR 6/10, UMAR SLATCH 2/8)

LOST TO

ST MARYS 69/1 (HAMZA MALIK 39*, NAWFAL COCKER 20*)

BY 9 WICKETS

AWARDS

BEST BATTERS

POOL A

RAHUL HARISH (SAMAJ “A” SCHOOL) 199 RUNS

POOL B

YOGESH KABARIA (SAMAJ “B” SCHOOL) 98 RUNS

POOL C

HAMZA MALIK (ST MARYS SCHOOL) 185 RUNS

BEST BOWLERS

POOL A

AKASH SHAH (NAIROBI SOUTH) - 9 WICKETS

POOL B

YOGESH KABARIA (SAMAJ ‘B’) - 9 WICKETS

POOL C

PATRICK MAINA (NAIROBI SCHOOL) - 11WICKETS

PLAYERS OF THE TOURNAMENT

POOL A

RAHUL HARISH (SAMAJ “A”)

POOL B

YOGESH KABARIA (SAMAJ “B”)

POOL C

HAMZA MALIK (ST MARYS SCHOOL)

Namibia U17s send strong message to Kenya

Namibia's Under 17s yesterday breezed passed Ghana in a matter of only 40 overs to set up today's clash with Kenya as the final of the Africa zone Under 17 championships.

Ghana won the toss, but that was about it as Namibia's bowlers ripped through their batting line up with only Gabriel Ananya (23), Festus Okine (14) and Isaac Aboagye (11) managing to reach double figures as the West Africans crumbled to 82 all out in just over 25 overs. Henry-Owen Bosman picked up the best figures for Namibia as he took 3 wickets for just 4 runs in cleaning up the tail, but in truth the hard work had already been done by the Englebrecht brothers and Johan Wessels.

Namibia's reply did meet some initial resistance from Ghana's opening bowlers who picked up 3 wickets, but Gert Lotter steered them home with an emphatic and unbeated 51 off just 29 deliveries.

This was a decisive win for a Namibian side that had lost the previous day in a warm up game to a Kenya select side featuring many of the U19 and best uncapped players from the NPCA league. They are a well drilled and talented side and Kenya's U17s will need to be at their best if they are going to do what their countrymen did a couple of days ago. Play starts at 9.30am at Nairobi Gymkhana.