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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