Cricket in Kenya has come to a complete stop.
Officials at the County level blame the national officials for mismanaging the game.
They said since getting into office in March, the officials have not held any meeting with the stakeholders.
In February, the Kenya Cricket held elections and Manoj Patel was elected the chairperson.
The CEO position is still vacant.
The men’s coach is Steve Tikolo, womens Coach Lameck Onyango.
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On Saturday, the Nairobi provincial Cricket Association (NPCA) called for a truce.
The NPCA’s appeal comes in the wake of Kenya’s dismal performance at the just concluded ICC World Challenge League B in Kampala, where the team won only two matches in five outings.
The NPCA come out to refute claims that it has been holding the national association at ransom on the strength of what they bring to the table.
Speaking to Sunday Nation, NPCA Secretary, Narendra Patel said that at no time have they arm-twisted CK and that the only thing they have been demanding is fair representation in the national body.
“NPCA remains a major stakeholder in Kenyan cricket and it’s hard to compare it with the other associations. That would not be a fair way for CK to affiliate its county associations. But in no way have we held anyone at ransom. At the same time, NPCA was not going to be sidelined the way some people wanted to,” Patel told the Nation.
The NPCA official also said the association chose not to participate in CK elections that were held on February 26 because the Normalization Committee that midwifed the process failed to meet them halfway prior to the polls.
“From day one we had asked for some minimum requirements to be met. One of the contentious issues was how the affiliation would happen and the number of positions at stake. We engaged the Normalization Committee until the very last day, but they disregarded everything we put forward. That was the reason we didn’t participate in the election,” he said.
Patel also claims there were too many “briefcase counties” that participated in the election which in effect made the whole process a political numbers game.
And while NPCA maintains that it is ready to work with the new CK office, Patel said that can only happen if some of the critical issues they have raised are addressed.
Among the key issues they are proposing is a review of CK constitution.
The association also wants all pending court cases to be put aside and the concerns of the majority stakeholders to be addressed.
“We will continue to support the game as we have done for the last four years, but there are a few things that CK needs to do. There has to be a clear way forward. At the moment, it’s neither here nor there,” he said.
NPCA’s appeal comes in the wake of Kenya’s dismal performance at the just concluded ICC World Challenge League in Kampala, where the team won only two matches in five outings.
However, some County officials said Steve Tikolo is “micromanaging the officials and using them as puppets”
“That’s why people are annoyed,” the official said.
Another Cricket Kenya official Kalpesh Solanki told Hot News the officials have been held captive the many court cases.
“What can we do when there are many court cases,” he said.
Manoj Patel said he had received our questions and that he was “happy to know us”.