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‘Kenyan cricket is dead and buried’

Aasif Karim’s dream spell against Australia in 2003 symbolised a brief golden period for Kenya, but since his retirement, the country’s cricket has nose-dived

Aasif Karim during the 2003 World Cup in South Africa.[PHOTO:CRICINFO]

Before the 1990 football World Cup, Roger Milla was playing out his career in Réunion when he received a phone call from Cameroon’s president urging him to come out of international retirement.

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