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Cricket Scotland has announced that Kenya will tour Scotland for a five-match series between June 30 to July 10. The teams will play two World Cricket League Championship matches, two T20 matches and an Intercontinental Cup fixture.

A barefoot Maasai warrior gallops into a sprint and swings his spear arm - delivering a fast-paced cricket ball straight at the wicket in a game of cricket.

It was a unique experience for many, when a match of cricket traditionally played on a green ground with players dressed like gentleman - was rather played in rather dusty brown muddy conditions with the opponents not wearing white and instead played in their traditional dress, somewhat like an Indian dhoti.

Pick up some Indian scorecards from the last several years, and great batting heroes flash by - Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Sourav Ganguly, MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag.

With lions lurking in the long grass, the barefoot Maasai warrior gallops into a sprint and swings his spear arm -- delivering a fast-paced cricket ball straight at the wicket.

West Indies' players Darren Sammy, fifth left, and captain Dwayne Bravo, seventh left, point at the replay on the big screen as they wait for the umpires to give India's Rohit Sharma, second left, out, off the bowling of Sunil Narine, sixth left, during the ICC Champions Trophy group B cricket match between India and West Indies at The Oval cricket ... (more)

Scotland's cricketers have just under a month to pick themselves up for a series of matches against Kenya in Aberdeen after going down heavily to Australia A at Raeburn Place.

WELL aware of the stiff rivalry between the two countries, in both the 15s and 7s, the national rugby team coaches have named experienced sides ahead of the Elgon Cup first leg against Kenya on Saturday in Nairobi.

But pre-eminent was June 2, when it was announced that a British team had conquered Mount Everest and, more importantly, the young Elizabeth drove in a glass coach It is 60 years since Queen Elizabeth's coronation and nostalgia fans are feeding voraciously on memories of the great event.

A white Ford Fiesta collided with the cyclist on a junction in Gowerton, a village four miles from the city, at around 1.30am today.

Surely belief is high right now for our team - but where it will get tested, and where it has failed them in the past, is in the big game.

Kampala, June 7 : The Uganda Cricket Association is on a recruitment drive for a national coach ahead of the International Cricket Council World Cup qualifiers.

Scotland cricket captainPreston Mommsen has challenged his team to seize the moment in a rare four day match with Australia A, starting today at Raeburn Place.

Cricket may summon up images of green pitches in sleepy English villages, but these pictures show that the sport has penetrated to almost every corner of the globe.

Scotland have named their squad to face Australia 'A' in a four-day fixture starting this Friday at the Grange, Edinburgh.

Liberia are still sweating over the likely absence of injured first team defenders Teah Dennis and Solomon Grimes and captain Anthony Laffor.

IN an ideal setting, Cranes' 3-0 humiliating loss to Libya -five days to a potential World Cup qualifier -would spell some sort of crisis! Calls to evaluate the coach in charge in this case Multin Micho Sredojevic and probably consider discarding a number of players that underperformed in the fateful fixture would be inevitable.

JONATHAN Ssebanja was the architect of Charity Cricket Club's win, picking 8 wickets as SKLPS was bowled out in only 13.1 overs in the Multiple Industries Cricket League match played on Sunday at Kyambogo Cricket Oval.

We established this last Friday at Club Venom in Kabalagala, where Crown Beverages' Pepsi, which will be flying Konshens into the country, hosted journalists to a launch party of the upcoming concert.

England will host the tournament for the first time since 1999 and the process of selecting ten venues has already commenced.