IN THE sixth match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 on Wednesday, February 23 at Mahinda Rajapaksha Worldwide Cricket Stadium, Hambantota, Pakistan will tackle Kenya within the group ‘A’ match. The 2 groups have by no means performed in any of the World Cup tournaments however Pakistan has received 5 ODI matches towards Kenya on different events. In an earlier match, New Zealand vanquished them by 10 wickets simply in eight overs. After batting first, Kenya scored solely 69 runs in 23.5 overs. Solely three Kenyan batsmen had been in a position to rating in double figures. Pakistan, the winner of the World Cup in 1992, previous to the beginning of world cup, received one warm-up match towards Bangladesh whereas it misplaced the opposite warm-up match towards England.
The Pakistani staff is essentially the most unpredictable staff within the World Cup 2011. Nonetheless, Pakistan’s highway to the quarterfinals just isn’t very tough as a result of they should play towards some weaker groups likes Kenya, Zimbabwe and Canada. The staff boasts of plenty of gifted kids in addition to skilled gamers, who’ve the capability to destroy any bowling assault in addition to any batting line-up. Given beneath is the possible Pakistan and Kenya squads for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011: Pakistan: Shahid Afridi (capt), Misbah-ul-Haq, Mohammad Hafeez, Kamran Akmal (wk), Younis Khan, Asad Shafiq, Umar Akmal, Abdul Razzaq, Abdur Rehman, Saeed Ajmal, Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, Sohail Tanvir, Ahmed Shehzad. Kenya: Jimmy Kamande (capt), Seren Waters, AlexObanda, David Obuya (wk), Collins Obuya, Steve Tikolo, TanmayMishra, Rakep Patel, Morris Ouma, Thomas Odoyo, NehemiahOdhiambo, Elijah Otieno, Peter Ongondo, Shem Ngoche, JamesNgoche.
