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It’s a sticky wicket on all ends for Kenya

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Jackie Janmohamed (in blue dress) presents sports kits to Under 19 crickets players, Sachin Bluidia captain (second left) Maxwell Ager, Aman Gandhi, Rene and their coach Jimmy Kamande(Left)at Simba union on 22nd December 2017. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

Local cricket enthusiasts can only hope that 2020 will be a year of revival for Kenya’s once successful sport.

The events of 2019 paint a bleak picture of a once-revered cricketing nation that has now become a pale shadow of its former self.

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