Tuesday 21 July 2009

Cricket: Another Sad Tale as Kenya dithers again

There are times I feel like throwing the gauntlet on the Kenyan sporting scene and getting on to something else but that would be giving in too soon. The cases created by our sports managers keeps putting to question whether we are cursed just like our political side of things. Where did the rain start beating us?
As we had reported about Athletics Kenya losing out on hosting next year's Youth Athletics Championships ( I'm not convinced by Hosea Kiplagat's words saying they have a secretariat running...), the Cricket Kenya officials have allowed a similar tournament for the cricket fraternity to slip through their fingers.
They say that they were preparing the grounds and still looking for sponsors.The little work going on of refurbishing the grounds was fair enough but even more urgent was securing sponsorship funds and the lucrative media rights which would have seen substantial income for CK.
Maybe they would have borrowed a leaf from the South African officials who managed to get India to move the Indian Cricket Premier League which still attracted a sizeable number of fans and audience across the country and into the global scene.
Synergies can be developed with SuperSport and work out something along the lines of the Kenya Premier League. But then again our local cricket scene has been sidelined and seems overtaken by events and is quickly sinking into oblivion.
What sluggards do we have running this office?
As we write this, Kenyan officials are also on the lookout for a new coach after Andy Kirsten's contract came to an end. Not much achieved under him, but we managed to qualify for the World Cup to be held in Asia next year. Hmm !

4 comments:

Andruid said...

The ICC decision was a back door one from all I have seen about it. Cricket Kenya were screwed over and the whole venues maneno was a con

Trust the EA standard howver to break the story a whole month later and not even make the slightest pretence at doing a proper investigation of the situation

SportsKenya said...

Thanks for the info Andruid...CK guys are becoming just like other sports bodies officials.
OK as for the EA Standard, I will reserve my comments since this is a public forum !

SportsKenya said...

Thanks for the info Andruid...CK guys are becoming just like other sports bodies officials.
OK as for the EA Standard, I will reserve my comments since this is a public forum !

Andruid said...

a little more info from a reliable source

http://blogs.cricinfo.com/btw/archives/2009/07/u19_world_cup_d.php