Kenneth Kamyuka (born December 5, 1981) is a Ugandan born Canadian
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 str ...
er. He is an
all-rounder
An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling. Although all bowlers must bat and quite a handful of batsmen do bowl occasionally, most players are skilled in only one of the two disciplines and are consi ...
who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm fast-medium.
Kamyuka is regarded as being the best cricketer from Uganda and starred for them in the
2001 ICC Trophy. A clean hitter of the ball, he scored an unbeaten 100 batting at No 10 against Malaysia.
He later moved to
Canada
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and after waiting four years to qualify to play for his adopted country, Kamyuka made his
One Day International (OD) debut in 2013, against the
Netherlands
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. He took a wicket with his first ball in ODI cricket.
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Cricket is the difference between being a good citizen and a thug
20 September 2013
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1981 births
Living people
Ugandan cricketers
Canada One Day International cricketers
Ugandan emigrants to Canada
People from Jinja District
Canadian cricketers
Sportspeople from Eastern Region, Uganda
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