Tikolo back as Kenya's captain

As revealed by Cricinfo last week, Steve Tikolo has been reinstated as Kenya's captain six months after resigning the post and will lead Kenya in their Intercontinental Cup tie in Uganda starting on Friday.

The squad, confirmed on Monday, is missing Ravi Shah, who has failed to recover from a long-standing knee injury. Also absent is allrounder Ragheb Aga, who captained the team to last year's semi final in the United Arab Emirates. The official reason is that Aga is studying in England, but Cricinfo has been informed that he was not even contacted ahead of the side's slection.

"We are aware of him and other players like Amit Bhudia, Abeed Janmohammed, Tony Suji and the others who are all part of the Kenyan team but cannot be selected for this game for various reasons," explained Tom Tikolo, Steve's brother and the head of the interim selection panel. "They will definitely be considered for future matches."

Some old names were also absent. Joseph Angara, Tony Suji, Brijal Patel and Jimmy Kamande were all omitted, although Tikolo said they still featured in the plansd and had been given specific instruciitions on what part of their game to work on.

Kenya squad Steve Tikolo (capt), Thomas Odoyo, Kennedy Otieno(wkt), David Obuya, Maurice Ouma, Martin Suji, Peter Ongondo, Hitesh Modi, Collins Obuya, Tanmay Mishra, Lameck Onyango, Malhar Patel, Kalpesh Patel, Nehemiah Odhiambo.