(Sporting Alert) — New Zealand and Kenya will meet in the second match of the 2011 World Cup Cricket tournament with both team hoping to set a good start to their campaign.
ICC Cricket World Cup, 2nd Match, Group A: Kenya v New Zealand at Chennai, Feb 20, 2011
Both sides have endured its own difficulties in recent times and will start with some confidence in their own way.
The Kenyans have in the past looked on as one of the teams to get easy points, but with New Zealand not having the best of form in recent times – losing three of their last five – they are no sure favourites.
The Kiwis will be hoping to put away a humiliating loss to India in their warm-up game, plus successive series defeats at the hands of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
Nathan McCullum is a doubt for game after the offspinner spent Thursday and Friday night in hospital with high fever.
Kenya, in the meantime, have a good health unit and has not reported any injuries. Brothers Shem Ngoche and James Ngoche are both likely to start the game will meet in the second match of the 2011 World Cup Cricket tournament with both team hoping to have a good start to their campaign.
Both sides have endured its own difficulties in recent times and will start with some confidence in their own way.
The Kenyans have in the past looked on as one of the teams to get easy points, but with New Zealand not being in the best of form in recent times – losing three of their last five – they are no sure favourites.
The Kiwis will be hoping to put away a humiliating loss to India in their warm-up game, plus successive series defeats at the hands of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
Nathan McCullum is a doubt for the game after the offspinner spent Thursday and Friday night in the hospital with high fever.
Kenya, in the meantime, have a good health unit and has not reported any injuries. Brothers Shem Ngoche and James Ngoche are both likely to start the game given the conditions of the pitch which could help.
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The other thing is the more we see images of the 'Cup' and India winning, public begin to expect it to happen. It's all great if India performs well but then when they don't, there is a discrepancy between what was expected (from fans) and the outcome. This explains the extreme irritation, disillusion and angst displayed on the team. This process of persuading or influencing indirectly is what is called subliminal persuasion. We have seen innumerable instances of different forms of targeting players when they have under performed. They range from verbal volleys, burning player effigies and even vandalization of player's houses. Even Sachin's effigy was not spared. I hope readers are following what I'm trying to get at! In addition, too much emphasis on winning puts tremendous pressure on players as well.
Our time here in Dhaka is actually the fourth leg of a journey that began on the 28th January in freezing Dublin. The first part of the trip was spent in Dubai where, thanks largely to the generosity of our main sponsors RSA, we were able to spend a couple of weeks training at the ICC's High Performance Centre. 
se games but there were some encouraging performances most notably in the Zim game from our captain William Porterfield who made a breezy 66 and over the two games from Alex Cusack, Nigel Jones and Andre Botha who all took a few wickets and bowled tidily.
ngs, Ireland has a gem of a player for the foreseeable future. One straight six off Kyle Mills in particular will live long in the memory. After our rollicking start, the middle order all got going without making a really telling contribution and this explains why we ended up 32 runs short of our target at the end. But this was a much improved performance against a very good New Zealand side and we could look forward to our game against Zimbabwe knowing that with a few tweaks, a win was just around the corner.
