Kenyans defeat Baroda by seven wickets

The visiting Kenyan team scored a comfortable seven wicket victory over Baroda Cricket Association XI in a one day game at the Alembic ground in Baroda on Monday.

Put in to bat, Baroda were all out for 176 in 45.5 overs. Opener D Thorat (52) and Jacob Martin (38) added 57 runs for the third wicket off 13.2 overs after two wickets had fallen for 50 runs. But after that wickets at regular intervals. Thorat faced 75 balls and hit five fours and a six while M Martin faced 65 balls and hit three of them to the ropes. The wrecker-in-chief was B Patel who finished with five wickets for 40 runs off 10 overs.

Kenya lost Ravindu Shah (25) at 37 but wicketkeeper K Otieno (58) and Hitesh Modi (28) put them firmly on the road to victory with a second wicket stand of 80 runs off 21 overs. Both batsmen fell in successive overs but B Patel (31) and skipper Maurice Odumbe (24) closed out the match with an unbroken fourth wicket stand of 58 runs off 16.2 overs. Otieno faced 94 balls and hit three fours and four sixes.