Rugby geeks

As the Bamburi super series builds pace over the weekend Kenya's rugby fraternity continue to show a not very Kenyan tech savvyness when it comes to web presence. Yes theu actually have a proper website that is regularly updated and was put together by someone aho actually has more that a remote liking for aesthetics and usability.

Hopefully more people will pick up on this trend cos its really bizzare to have to look for fresh news to blog from non-kenyan websites like 99% of the time.

Kudos to KRFU

The Reckoning.

21st of April 2009. This date could very well be the most important one in the history of cricket in Kenya not only as a matter of the national team's pre-eminence as the most powerfulf team outside the test scene but of the legitimacy of the board that, has found itself facing a mounting barrage of criticism from often suspect quarters over their struggle to re-create the miracle that was Kenya's semi-final run in the 2003 World Cup. This date is scheduled to host the final of the ICC World Cup Qualifiers set to start on April the 1st and the future of Kenyan cricket hinges very much on whether they will be playing a central, or peripheral role in proceedings on that day. I could wax lyrical on the fixtures and teams etc, here but I already have See here

Much has changed since then especially in global cricket with the International Cricket Council (that pretty much funds all non-test cricket and is supposed to be in charge of the global game) increasingly a bit part player in the power games of its larger full members i.e the BCCI (India), the ECB (England and Wales), CA (Australia) and the CSA (South Africa). More significantly has been the end of permanent ODI status which Kenya enjoyed from 1997? to 2005 for a temporary status ODI status which has increasingly put pressure on the teams that hold that status to put results out on the pitch to hang on to the ICC's funding.

Much of Kenya's developement hinges on not only securing a place on the plane to the subcontinent in 2011, and the extra funding that comes to the teams that end up in the ICC's World Cricket League Division One, as well as first proirity when it comes to whatever process the ICC deems fit to select their token Associate representaives at such cash cows as the upcoming T20 World Cup in England later this year.

25 all out

Those of you who have been fann's for long enough will remember the spetacular manner in which they embedded themselves into World Cricket's collective psyche. It turns out that they are not the only ones who have some from nowhere to make a mockery of the West Indies batting.

The video below is footage of a tour match the West Indies (featuring such legends as Clyve Wallcott and Clyve Lloyd) played against Ireland whilst on tour that they lost chasing 60? odd for the win

Gor 3 AFC 2

After two penalties and plenty of drama that was the result of the first league clash between the old firm in over two years.

The result takes Gor Mahia up to 6th in the 16 team Kenya Premier league with 6 points whilst Ingwe find themeselves rooted to the bottom of the table with only a single point from their 4 games.

Its good to know that despite the relative lack of strength of these two teams on the local scene, they can still serve up a feast of thrilling football when they collide on the pitch