The Hindu : Kiwis not to play in Kenya

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Saturday, Feb 01, 2003

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Kiwis not to play in Kenya

WELLINGTON Jan. 31. The New Zealand Cricket Council has said its team would not play the scheduled World Cup match in Kenya next month, claiming that the security risk for players was too high.

After a day-long board meeting today, the Council said it did not believe that the decision to play in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, made by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday was reasonable. "The information received by the ICC Security Delegation to Kenya made it clear that there is a tangible terrorist threat in Nairobi and the board has seen nothing which changes that," it said in a statement.

The chairman of the Kenya Cricket Association, Jimmy Rayani, said he would probably appeal personally to the New Zealand authorities to ask them to change their decision. "I still hope that they will reconsider their decision if they actually made one, and come and play cricket," he said. "We have said all along that their concern about security is misconceived and based on wrong premises."

Zimbabwe and Kenya retained their preliminary matches for the World Cup after an ICC tele-conference on Thursday to discuss potential security fears.

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