Kenya named eight uncapped players in squad

Kenya seems to be completely renovating the team and setting their spirits high by announcing eight uncapped players in the squad – Irfan Karim, Peter Kituku, Vinit Shikotra, Kennedy Owine, Duncan Allan, Karan Kaul and Runish Gudhka.

The list also includes two of their most experienced player Steve Tikolo and Thomas Odoya who first featured in the 1996 cricket World Cup, that was too held in the subcontinent. Kenya had a disappointing year in ODI’s with just winning three and losing eight games. Even though towards the end of the year they got some highs by winning three match series against Afganistan by 2-1 and clean sweeping UAE by 4-0 both at home.

Tikolo had led a strike among other players that shook Kenya cricket early in the year which also led the former skipper walking out of the team, but he still managed to make himself available for the cricket World Cup 2011. It would be interesting to see that how many of these uncapped players make up to the final 15 member squad or are they just meant to sit on the bench. The cricket is just getting more and more exciting.

Tikolo still at the age of 39 remains their key player. Kenya is now lead by an equally able skipper Jimmy Kamande who will be on the task to bring glory to his team. They will be facing West Indies and Netherlands in the lead up to the World Cup.

Preliminary Squad: Ragheb Aga, Duncan Allan, Runish Gudhka, Jimmy Kamande, Irfan Karim, Karan Kaul, Irfan Karim, Peter Kituku, Alfred Luseno, Tanmay Mishra, James Ngoche, Shem Ngoche, Alex Obanda, David Obuya, Collins Obuya, Nehemiah Odhiambo, Nelson Odhiambo, Thomas Odoyo, Lucas Oluoch, Peter Ongondo, Joseph Onyango, Lameck Onyango, Elijah Otieno, Morris Ouma, Kennedy Owino, Rakep Patel, Vinit Shikotra, Steve Tikolo, Hiren Varaiya, Seren Waters, Dominic Wesonga.

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Aussie’s call Khawaja as back up for Ponting

Aussie skipper Ricky Ponting is expected to recover from his broken figure to lead the side at the MCG(Melbourne Cricket Ground) on the Boxing Day. Selectors have still called up Khawaja as a cover for him as a precautionary measure. Usman Khawaja is a New South Wales batsmen who has just turned 24 is uncapped and will be joining the team this Wednesday.

Everyone is quite certain and confident that the skipper will definitely be fit for the Ashes decider game. Khawaja is also a cover for vice-captain Micheal Clarke, who suffered with a back in the lead-up to the first test in Brisbane. Khawaja deserved an opportunity as he is highly talented and has been in great form in the domestic season.

This is the season when cricket is at its best, no one would like to miss the opportunity to watch the final of the Ashes, where these two giants will be fighting for the cup. Ricky Ponting too will be equally thrilled to play the final and that spirit will also be making him mentally tough to cope up the injury well. Ponting though sustained the injury in the third test when he dropped Jonathan Trott in the second slip.

There are many exciting games to catch up before the even more thrilling and exciting cricket World Cup 2011 begins in the subcontinent. You wont like to miss out any of those matches so stay tuned on the cricket tv up in the blog to stay updated with the current happenings and don’t miss the action.

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