Family’s stellar contribution popularised cricket in Kenya

Maurice Odumbe

Odumbe’s fall was particularly harrowing because of his family’s stellar contribution to Kenyan cricket.

After Kenya was awarded independence in 1963, the sport, till then the preserve of the white and Asian populations, slowly began to be Africanised. In 1976, Kenneth Odhiambo Odumbe became the first black African to play for Kenya. Four of his brothers would later represent the national team too.