Cricket News

Kenya's striking players have given their support to a move to establish a new government-backed body to replace the embattled Kenyan Cricket Associatio

Strikers will play for Cricket Kenya for free

Kenya's selectors have deferred naming a squad for the Intercontinental Cup match against Namiba in view of growing doubts surrounding the future of the Kenyan Cricket Association

Selectors delay as future grows bleak for KCA

Cricket Kenya came one step closer to assuming full control of Kenyan cricket after the country's two largest provincial organisations, the Nairobi Provincial Cricket Association and Coast Cricket Association, voted overwhelmingly to back it in

KCA on the rack as clubs back Cricket Kenya

Ochilo Ayacko, the sports minister, has told a news conference in Nairobi that the Kenyan cabinet met on Thursday morning and unanimously agreed to withdraw all recognition for the Kenyan Cricket Association in favour of Cricket Kenya

Another day of confusion in Kenya

It is now six weeks since Ochilo Ayacko decided enough was enough and suspended the Kenyan Cricket Association - but the KCA continues in office

Unloved but still fighting

Ochillo Ayacko, Kenya's minister of sports, has disbanded the Kenyan Cricket Association, claiming that it is blighted by mismanagement, and appointed an interim committee to run the game until a new constitution can be agreed

Kenyan government suspends board

As widely expected, the executive of the Kenyan Cricket Association has dismissed its suspension on Friday and has refused to recognise the interim committee put in place by Ochillo Ayacko, the minister of sports

KCA dismisses suspension as illegal

Sharad Ghai, the ousted KCA chairman, has said that he will not go to court to try to overturn the government's decision to dissolve the board and replace it with an interim committee

Ghai accepts the inevitable

The beleaguered Kenyan Cricket Association might have won a 21-day suspension of the government's decision to replace its existing board with an interim committee, but opponents are confident it is unlikely to prevent wholesale changes in the long

KCA mounts desperate rearguard

Ochilo Ayacko, the sports minister who last week dissolved the Kenyan Cricket Association, has said that millions of dollars might be missing from the KCA accounts

KCA executive could face corruption charges

Sharad Ghai, the ousted chairman of the Kenyan Cricket Association, continued to protest his board's innocence in the light of comments from Ochilo Ayacko, the sports minister, that senior members of the KCA could be charged in relation to their

Ghai continues to defend KCA's actions

Fourteen players named in Kenya's side for the forthcoming ICC Champions Trophy match against Namibia have refused to allow their names to be included in the squad

Striking players withdraw from squad

Cricinfo has learned that the ICC was almost certainly aware that the Kenyan government was considering suspending the Kenyan Cricket Association, although the speed with which Ochilo Ayacko, the sports minister, acted might have surprised it

ICC aware that government planning to suspend board

Ten leading Kenyan cricketers have publicly backed the move by Ochilo Ayacko, the sports minister, to suspend the Kenyan Cricket Association, arguing that it was the only way that cricket could be salvaged

Players welcome government intervention

Geoff Lawson said he was contacted at short notice about the job and was trying to obtain a visa from the Pakistan high commission in Canberra

Lawson heads to Pakistan for interviews

Ian Botham, one of the greatest cricketers of the modern era, has been knighted by the Queen in her Birthday Honours

Ian Botham knighted in Birthday Honours

West Indies players have said they will not undertake an A-team tour of Zimbabwe next month as a result of concerns over safety and the continuing unstable political situation in the country.

West Indies players refuse to tour Zimbabwe

Plans to redevelop the County Ground at Taunton have been approved by the local council

Somerset set green light for Taunton development

Kent have been given planning permission by the local council for extensive redevelopment of their Canterbury headquarters

Kent get Canterbury go-ahead