Francis Otieno
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Francis Otieno Ndege (born 25 August 1979) is a former Kenyan international
cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er who played as a right-handed opening batsman. He was born at Nairobi in 1979. A former captain of the national under-19 side, he represented his country in four
One Day International A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World C ...
(ODI) matches in 2010, although he had made his senior debut as early as the 1999–2000 season.Francis Otieno
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Otieno's playing career was interrupted by a stint as the coach of the Ugandan national team. He was appointed to the position in November 2007, replacing
Sam Walusimbi Samuel Walusimbi (born 1948) is a former cricketer from Uganda. He played three One Day Internationals (ODI) in the 1975 cricket World Cup, representing the East Africa cricket team. Walusimbi was one of the founding members of the Wanderers Cric ...
, and served until July 2008, when he was replaced by South African Barney Mohamed.


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1979 births Living people Kenyan cricketers Kenya One Day International cricketers Coaches of the Uganda national cricket team Cricketers from Nairobi Kenyan expatriate sportspeople in Uganda Kenyan cricket coaches Coaches of women's national cricket teams {{Kenya-cricket-bio-stub