African visitors struggle in opener (28 April 1999)
World Cup outfit Kenya, who were playing against a Lancashire League X1 at Alexandra Meadows today, lost their opening build-up game against Lancashire seconds at Old Trafford
28-Apr-1999
28 April 1999
African visitors struggle in opener
Lancashire Evening Telegraph
World Cup outfit Kenya, who were playing against a Lancashire League
X1 at Alexandra Meadows today, lost their opening build-up game
against Lancashire seconds at Old Trafford.
Paddy McKeown hammered the Kenya attack for 130 but the tourists
would have been quite happy to restrict Lancashire to 256-5 from
their 50 overs in yesterday's sunshine. Padiham pro Mark Harvey
contributed 43.
They were then bowled out for 223 with Steve Tikolo scoring a stylish
half century. The wickets were shared.
Captain-coach of Lancashire seconds Peter Sleep said: "I believe it
was their first game for a while and we should have won by a bigger
margin. But it was our first real run out and to beat a World Cup
team was no mean feat."
The county seconds open their championship programme with a three-day
game against Glamorgan at Haslingden, starting next Wednesday.
Source :: Lancashire Evening Telegraph (https://www.reednews.co.uk/let/)