Kenya cricketers honour bowler Elijah Otieno (second-left) for a exclusion of Zimbabwe batsman Regis Chakabva during their Group A compare in a World Cup Cricket contest during a Eden Garden Stadium in Kolkata. Kenya need to fool around continually opposite vital teams if they have been ever to urge during a large tournaments, maestro all-rounder Steve Tikolo said.
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KOLKATA, India (AFP) – Kenya need to fool around continually opposite vital teams if they have been ever to urge during a large tournaments, maestro all-rounder Steve Tikolo pronounced upon Sunday.
Kenya, who competent for a 2003 World Cup semi-finals in South Africa, mislaid all of their 6 joining matches during a 2011 book with Sunday’s 161-run better to Zimbabwe during Eden Gardens completing a miserable campaign.
“In 2003, you had a group that had been together given 1996. We gelled great as players as great as had been personification great cricket all along afterwards as great as had fought great opposite tip teams,” Tikolo pronounced after creation his final World Cup apperance.
“Things altered after 2003 as you frequency played tip teams. you consider you final played Pakistan in 2004 as great as Australia in 2003. When you encounter them in large tournaments it does not your certainty any good,” he said.
“Back during home, you need to revamp a internal structure. Youngsters need to fool around three-day as great as four-day cricket.”
Tikolo, who figured in 5 World Cups, has scored 3,421 runs with 3 hundreds as great as twenty-four half-centuries as great as bagged 94 wickets in 134 one-day internationals.
“I am 39 as great as can’t go upon forever. One only has to get upon with hold up as great as give others a chance,” pronounced Tikolo, who led Kenya to a 2003 semi-finals.
He was additionally partial of a group that dissapoint a West Indies in a 1996 World Cup compare during Pune in India.
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