The visiting Kenyan team scored a comfortable seven wicket victoryover Baroda Cricket Association XI in a one day game at the Alembicground in Baroda on Monday
Partab Ramchand03-May-2000The visiting Kenyan team scored a comfortable seven wicket victoryover Baroda Cricket Association XI in a one day game at the Alembicground in Baroda on Monday.Put in to bat, Baroda were all out for 176 in 45.5 overs. Opener DThorat (52) and Jacob Martin (38) added 57 runs for the third wicketoff 13.2 overs after two wickets had fallen for 50 runs. But afterthat wickets at regular intervals. Thorat faced 75 balls and hit fivefours and a six while M Martin faced 65 balls and hit three of them tothe ropes. The wrecker-in-chief was B Patel who finished with fivewickets for 40 runs off 10 overs.Kenya lost Ravindu Shah (25) at 37 but wicketkeeper K Otieno (58) andHitesh Modi (28) put them firmly on the road to victory with a secondwicket stand of 80 runs off 21 overs. Both batsmen fell in successiveovers but B Patel (31) and skipper Maurice Odumbe (24) closed out thematch with an unbroken fourth wicket stand of 58 runs off 16.2 overs.Otieno faced 94 balls and hit three fours and four sixes.