By Oscar Pilipili

Cricket Kenya (CK) has named a 14-man squad to  the Namibia Twenty20 Quadrangular Series.

The competition will be held in Windhoek on April 19-25.

The four team event will also see the Kenyan squad play against Cricket South Africa (CSA Emerging), The Netherlands and hosts Namibia.

The two back-to-back Twenty20 matches against The Netherlands on April 19-20 will be classified as T20 Internationals since the Dutch side is an ODI country.

The tournament will be contested on a round robin format with the top two making the finals and a third place play-off for the two other sides.

Kenya coach Robin Brown said: “We need to continue on our recent winning ways.”

“Despite the absence of university players Duncan Allan and Irfan Karim, we expect positive results from this tour based on the team’s overall improvement over the last couple of months.”

Collins Obuya remains captain of the team.

Obuya said: “The tour of Namibia has come at the right time, just a few months before we play our Intercontinental Cup matches between June and October.”

 “All the players are in good shape and ready to play to the best of their ability,” he said.

The team has been training at Aga Khan Sports Club and Ruaraka Sports Club over the last four weeks in preparation for the international fixtures ahead.

Meanwhile, Nadeem Ghauri, the umpire banned for four years by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), has criticised the decision as "one-sided”.

Ghauri was punished after the PCB's integrity committee found him guilty of being willing to accept money for favorable umpiring decisions.

The allegations against him, Ghauri said, were baseless. They surfaced during a television sting operation, broadcast by India TV, last year, which claimed to have "exposed" several first-class umpires from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan who were allegedly willing to give decisions favoring players for a fee, reports Cricinfo.

Ghauri and his umpiring colleague Anis Siddiqui were banned for four and three years respectively by the PCB's integrity committee.

"It's a one-sided decision and I am not happy with it," Ghauri said during a press conference at his residence.