• “Rakep has an ankle injury he incurred during national duty while Harshit sustained a knee injury in the last game of the 50 Overs League.”
• Elsewhere, Twenty 20 leaders Ruaraka ‘A’ are leaving nothing to chance as they prepare to face Nairobi Gymkhana ‘A’ at their Thika Road backyard.
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Kanbis ‘A’ will miss the services of Harshit Vekaria and Rakep Patel during Saturday’s Twenty 20 match against hosts Sikh Union in the Nairobi Provincial Cricket Association (NPCA) league.
Captain Dhiren Gondaria confirmed the two will be out for the second successive weekend.
“Rakep has an ankle injury he sustained on national duty while Harshit sustained a knee injury in the last game of the 50 Overs League,” said Dhiren.
“We have made adjustments and even played our first match without the two.”
Leaders Ruaraka ‘A’ are leaving nothing to chance ahead of their clash against Nairobi Gymkhana ‘A’ at their Thika Road backyard.
Ruaraka danger man Sachin Gill thinks it’s still too early for any team to rest on their laurels.
“The season has just started and we can’t take anything for granted. Any team can perform and surprise the big boys. Our batting is very good but we need to take more responsibility since the pros we had in the T50 league are not with us," said Sachin.
Ruaraka convincingly beat Obuya Academy by nine wickets.
Sachin said: “Obuya had only 10 players and it was hard for them to tackle us. That game is behind us since it didn’t test our team.”
Giant-killing Shree Cutchi Patel Samaj will lock horns with Stray Lions at Nairobi Jaffrey’s.
The Lions are on the prowl and clawing their way up the leaderboard and Victory against Cutchi Leva will see them top the standings after a promising start to the season last weekend where they beat Sikh Union by nine wickets.
Cutchi Leva pulled the biggest upset of the T20 League with a six-wicket victory over defending champions Swamibapa ‘A’.
Swamibapa ‘A’ have a bye this weekend.
Meanwhile, Division One has five matches on the card with Wolves ‘A’ hosting Division One 50 Overs League champions Kongonis A at Nairobi Club.
Last weekend, Kongonis decimated Swamibapa ‘B’ by 38 runs to settle for third place in Division One standings behind Ngara Sports Club ‘A’ and GI Unicorns.
Kongonis’ top order will have their usual suspects in hitman Jitendra Singh Gariya, Niraav Bhudia and skipper Tom Ojijo.
Their middle order will be spearheaded by Brian Likavu, Martin Mworia and Duncan Mchendetsi.
Wolves are expected to field Bansikumar Patel, Dhaval Soni and Anis Nagda in their top order and Adil Nawaz, Vinod Kumar and Shaishav Patel in the middle order.
Leaders Ngara SC 'A', skippered by Rajiv Sutaria, have a match against Ruaraka ‘B’ in South C.
Fixtures
Super Division
Ruaraka 'A' vs Nairobi Gymkhana 'A' (Ruaraka)
Sikh Union 'A' vs Kanbis 'A' (Sikh Union)
SCLPS 'A' vs Stray Lions 'A' (Nairobi Jaffrey’s)
Swamibapa (bye)
Division One
Wolves 'A' vs Kongonis'A' (Nairobi Club)
Swamibapa 'B' vs Stray Lions 'B' (Jamhuri)
Ngara SC 'B' vs Ruaraka 'B' (Ngara)
GI Unicorns 'A' vs Sikh Union 'B' (GI)
Kanbis 'B' vs SCLPS 'B' (Eastleigh)