Cricket Kenya is the official ICC recognised organisation chosen to represent

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in terms of

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issues. They are in charge of overseeing the Kenyan Cricket Team. Cricket Kenya organizes two six team regional tournaments in the T20 and 50 Over formats of the game to replace the defunct

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. These are the East Africa Cup and

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. Cricket Kenya organizes the

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and conducts the international matches with the team.

Structure

Cricket Kenya consists of a national board consisting of a chairperson, vice chairperson, treasurer, secretary and directors selected from its affiliate provincial associations. These are *

Nairobi Province Cricket Association The Nairobi Province Cricket Association is the Affiliate of Cricket Kenya responsible for cricketing activities in the City of Nairobi. These include overseeing the Kenya Kongonis, and Kanbis Tigers franchises in the East Africa Premier League and ...

* Rift Valley Cricket Association *

Coast Cricket Association The Coast Cricket Association is the affiliate of Cricket Kenya responsible from cricket activities in the several counties formerly part of Coast Province in Kenya. It runs the Coast Cricket Association Leagues through which, together with those of ...

History

Cricket in Kenya

Cricket in Kenya dates back to the early 1890s when colonial settlers, and administrators began playing against one another in

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and

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among several other venues. The first match of any consequence took place in 1899, and in 1910 a three-day fixture between Officials and Settlers started, remaining the highlight of the domestic calendar until 1964, along with Europeans v. Asians which began in 1933. In 1966, Kenya become a member of the East African Cricket Conference (E.A.C.C.) and participated in its annual Quadrangular tournament which included the three East African countries and

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. The tournament played in each respective country by rotation saw Kenya winning nine of the 15 competitions between 1960 and 1980. A number of Kenyans took part in the 1975 World Cup as part of the

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side, and that unit again appeared in the inaugural

1979 ICC Trophy The 1979 ICC Trophy was a limited overs cricket tournament held in England between 22 May and 21 June 1979. It was the inaugural ICC Trophy tournament to be staged, with matches between the 15 participating teams played over 60 overs a side and w ...

, but by 1982 Kenya were playing under their own flag, under the Kenya Cricket Association.A brief history of Kenyan Cricket http://www.espncricinfo.com/kenya/content/story/261613.html It was under this body that Kenyan cricket reached its peak, at the

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, which it co-hosted and reached the semifinals of. In subsequent years however, bitter disputes between board and players led to a series of strikes, but more cripplingly, the KCA found itself battling most of the country's stakeholders. By the end of the dispute in 2005, Kenyan cricket was in the doldrums, was sponsorless, and was effectively in international isolation. Later in the year it was stripped of its ODI status by the ICC.

Establishment Of Cricket Kenya

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. The dispute, which centered around issues such as floundering constitutional review, and financial irregularities which had seen the KCA rack up almost 500,000 dollars of debt, and as well as periodic player disputes over pay 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 Percival Henry Frederick Sonn (25 September 1949 - 27 May 2007) was a South African lawyer and cricket administrator. Sonn became the sixth president of the International Cricket Council, the most senior role at cricket's world governing body, i ...

and Peter Chingoka, an agreement on a new elections and a new constitution was agreed upon. 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. Tom Tikolo served as the CEO of Cricket Kenya from 2005 to 2009 when he resigned due to cash scandal. After extensive searching he was replaced by Tom Sears in mid-2010. Sears himself steeped down in mid 2012 to pursue a career in rugby administration.Tom Sears resigns as Cricket Kenya CEO - ESPN Cricinfo http://espncricinfo.com/kenya/content/story/563595.html

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