Sunday, February 20, 2011
Nehemiah Odhiambo during practice session on 19 Feb, 2011; Image:ESPNCricinfo
Kenya has lost 10 wickets in 24 overs scoring 69.
Kenya, a team that is remembered for its performance in 2003 World Cup looks too weak to fight in this big game. It has lost its 7 wickets scoring just 63 runs in 21.3 overs against New Zealand. In no time the tail-end batsmen are back to the pavilion adding just 6 runs to the board.
New Zealand has been out of track for some time continuously losing the ODI's in the last season. Looks like they have decided to re-built the instinct required for the big encounters in the series. New Zealand's right arm medium pace bowler Bennett ruthlessly sank the Kenyan Team hardly giving any chance for recovery.
Nevertheless, a good cricket from Kenya is still expected during the second innings. The bowlers are expected to play passionately and post a challenge to the thrashing batsmen like J Ryder and Guptill of New Zealand.
After a high scoring match yesterday between India and Bangladesh, India scoring a massive 370 in 50 Overs and Bangladesh posting a decent figure of 285 on board; in contrast this match is a low scoring match.
ICC has realized this parity between the weak nations and strong nations in the 50 over format and announced that only 10 teams will be playing the tournament from 2015.
Let us watch the second Innings!
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