Tikolo has big plans to boost Kenya cricket

Tom Tikolo has been the chief executive of the Kenyan board for less than a week but he has already announced plans to spread cricket across the country in the next five years.

Cricket is only played in Nairobi, Mombasa and a few schools in Nakuru and Thika at the moment, but Tikolo wants to extend the game's reach through targeting schools. He does not think the task will be an easy one, but he believes it is achievable, having seen how such an approach has helped Uganda when he was their national coach last year.

"Cricket culture in Uganda is much more than what we have in Kenya," he told The Daily Nation, a Kenya newspaper, after becoming just the second chief executive after Sammy Obingo.