Will Kenya's players never learn?
The Kenyan media has rounded on the country’s players after they stopped training in a dispute over non payment of match fees for the cancelled game against Canada in January
Players also ought to put patriotism before cash for the national good. While we appreciate that they have families to feed, staging a strike over a match that was not played is regrettable.
It is so sad now that even with the new dispensation in the form of Cricket Kenya led by Samir Inamdar with Tom Tikolo as chief executive, the players are resorting to the same old habits of holding the cricket administrators to ransom.
The action by the players ... was at best ill advised, at worst utter stupidity. It sent a message to the wider community that nothing had changed, that Kenyan cricket was still a disorganised and dysfunctional shambles. The reality is quite different, but the damage has been done.
Martin Williamson is executive editor of ESPNcricinfo and managing editor of ESPN Digital Media in Europe, the Middle East and Africa