Cricket Kenya
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Cricket Kenya is the official ICC recognised organisation chosen to represent Kenya in terms of cricket issues. They are in charge of overseeing the Kenyan Cricket Team. The current coach is Andy Kirsten. Recently Cricket Kenya organized a four team elite tournament that includes a T20 Tournament, a 50 Over competition and a first class competition namely the Sahara Elite League. Cricket Kenya organizes the Kenya national cricket team and conducts the international matches with the team.
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[edit] History
The final installation of Cricket Kenya as the body in charge of Cricket in Kenya came at the end of a long drawn out dispute the previous management, the Kenya Cricket Association and its Provincial boards among other stakeholders in the game[1][2]. The dispute which centered around issues such as floundering constitutional review[3], and financial irregularities[4] which had seen the KCA rack up almost 500,000 dollars of debt and as well as periodic player disputes over pay[5][6] that eventually saw the KCA lose all credibility within Kenyan cricketing circles as players, administrators and even the Kenya government gradually withdrew all recognition and support of the KCA in favour of Cricket Kenya, which was then an interim board put together by the Kenya Government to avoid the chaos that had been created by the KCA over the management of Cricket in Kenya. Ultimately with the intervention of a high powered ICC delegation led by Percy Sonn and Peter Chingoka where an agreement on a new elections and a new constitution was agreed upon.[7] The board members that were elected in the subsequent elections then formally wound up the Kenya Cricket Association paving the way for its official replacement by a new organisational body to be known as Cricket Kenya.
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- ^ Cricinfo http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/kenya/content/story/230414.html, A new start with Cricket Kenya
- ^ Cricinfo, http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/kenya/content/story/145277.html Kenyan government suspends board,
- ^ Cricinfo, http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/kenya/content/story/135997.html ICC asked to halt 'doomed' constitutional review
- ^ Cricinfo http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/kenya/content/story/215502.html, ICC resumes funding to Kenya
- ^ Cricinfo http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/kenya/content/story/144592.html, Selectors delay as future grows bleak for KCA
- ^ Cricinfo http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/kenya/content/story/145561.html Striking players withdraw from squad
- ^ Cricinfo http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/kenya/content/story/144556.html, Stakeholders to vote on new board
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