Kenyan bowler Peter Ongondo (L), Elijah Otieno (C) delivers a round watched by Steve Tikolo (R) during a precision eventuality during The Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium in Kolkata. Retiring Kenyan all-rounder Tikolo pronounced Saturday which subordinate for a 2003 World Cup semi-finals in South Africa was a prominence of his one-day career.
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KOLKATA, India (AFP) – Retiring Kenyan all-rounder Steve Tikolo pronounced Saturday which subordinate for a 2003 World Cup semi-finals in South Africa was a prominence of his one-day career.
Tikolo will have his final World Cup coming when his group strife with Zimbabwe during Kolkata’s Eden Gardens upon Sunday, with both sides out of a tab for quarter-final berths.
The all-rounder, who has figured in 5 World Cups, has scored 3,411 runs with 3 hundreds as well as twenty-four half-centuries as well as taken 94 wickets with his off-spin in 133 one-day internationals.
“The 2003 semi-final was a good feat for a Kenyan group as well as myself as a captain as well as violence a West Indies during Pune (in a 1996 World Cup in India) is additionally a single of a highlights,” pronounced Tikolo.
“It is good to be personification (my final match) during Eden Gardens. we recollect my initial diversion here opposite India which was something special, with a throng of over 80,000,” combined Tikolo, 39.
“It’s an romantic impulse for me as well as we would similar to to go out upon a certain note.”
The Kenyan, who skeleton to take up coaching, pronounced he regretted not removing a possibility to fool around Test cricket.
“That is a single thing we would have favourite to do, fool around Test cricket.”
Kenya captain Jimmy Kamande pronounced his group were penetrating to win a compare for a maestro all-rounder.
“He is a legend. He is a male essentially who done me fool around one-day general cricket as well as he is a a single who done us validate for a initial time in a 1996 World Cup,” he said.
Zimbabwe have warranted only dual points in a unsatisfactory contest for them as well as Kenya have been purposeless after 5 matches.
The Kenyan skipper pronounced he was unhappy over his Australian reflection Ricky Ponting’s remarks which a World Cup would be improved if a not as big nations were excluded.
“What is unsatisfactory is which someone similar to Ricky Ponting observant which associates do not need to be here (at a World Cup),” pronounced Kamande.
Ponting pronounced cricket’s showpiece eventuality would be a improved contest if a not as big nations were excluded, though additionally concurred a need to grow a diversion around a world.
The subsequent World Cup in 2015 will underline only 10 teams, down from a stream 14, definition it will roughly positively be a safety of a Test sides.
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