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Kenya cancels tours

© Ahmad Nawaz

Kenya is the most prominent team in the upcoming teams of the world. Many people are saying that Kenya should also be given test status as Bangladesh have already been given test status. Most of them having the view that Kenya are a better team than Bangladesh.

Kenyan team has many good players especially their captain Odumbe is perhaps the best batsman outside the test playing cricketing world. Their victory against West Indies in the world cup 96 was their biggest achievement ever. Afterwards, although they have not defeated any of the test playing nations yet they have always given them quite a tough time and Kenyan team is respected by the test playing nations.

In Nairobi, KCA chairman Jimmy Rayani said the players had held the country at ransom when they threatened not to honor an international match against the visiting Sri Lanka A side last month. The players made a number of demands, including a salary hike, before taking on Sri Lanka.

The Kenyan cricket is going through a crisis nowadays, perhaps the first major crisis and the test cricket playing nations cricket boards should try their best to cover this crisis. The Kenyan team performance has really impressed the whole world of cricket.

These sort of crisis do occur, many times the player don’t agree to play under a particular captain, or they want a raise in salaries, these sort of problems do occur but these sort of problems should not be made a reason to refuse playing against a particular nation.

The tour to Bangladesh and India has also been called off by the Kenya Cricket Association and many of the lovers of cricket were expecting a good series between Bangladesh and Kenya in particular as both of these teams is almost equally good. Bangladesh has played test cricket but result as expected was not a very good one for them but they are beginners and in the start each team do have problems.

Anyhow, steps should be taken in order to get rid of this crisis so that we can see more great cricket from this young and good side. Kenya should also be given test status as they have proved that they are a team who can play test cricket.