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Kenya Select are a cricket team which took part in the revamped Logan Cup
Logan Cup
The Logan Cup is the premier domestic first-class cricket competition in Zimbabwe. The current champions are the Matabeleland Tusker.-History:...

 for 2007. They are the only side to have taken part in the tournament from outside Zimbabwe and it is the first time that a Kenyan cricket team which was not the national side has played first class cricket.

Captained by Collins Obuya, Kenya Select are for all intents and purposes a 'Kenya A' side and consist mainly of young players. Some of the more established players in the side are Maurice Ouma
Maurice Ouma
Maurice Amollo Ouma is a Kenyan cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and also plays as a wicket-keeper. He has played for the Kenyan cricket team since 2000....

, David Obuya, Tanmay Mishra
Tanmay Mishra
Tanmay Mishra is a Kenyan cricketer. He is a right-handed aggressive middle-order batsman and made his One Day International debut for Kenya in 2006 against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo. In 2007, Tanmay enrolled himself in an Indian University, and this prevented him from making any appearances for the...

 and Hiren Varaiya
Hiren Varaiya
Hiren Ashok Varaiya is a Kenyan cricket player. He is a right-handed batsman and a left arm spin bowler. He made his debut for Kenya in an ICC Intercontinental Cup game against Canada at Maple Leaf Cricket Club on 29 July 2006. He has since represented Kenya in three One Day Internationals...

.

The team got its first points for the tournament in a draw against
Centrals in the 3rd round. Varaiya took a career best 6/68 while Collins Obuya and Alex Obanda scored their maiden first class hundreds.

Kenya Select full squad

  • Collins Obuya [capt]
  • Maurice Ouma
    Maurice Ouma
    Maurice Amollo Ouma is a Kenyan cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and also plays as a wicket-keeper. He has played for the Kenyan cricket team since 2000....

  • David Obuya
  • Tanmay Mishra
    Tanmay Mishra
    Tanmay Mishra is a Kenyan cricketer. He is a right-handed aggressive middle-order batsman and made his One Day International debut for Kenya in 2006 against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo. In 2007, Tanmay enrolled himself in an Indian University, and this prevented him from making any appearances for the...

  • Malhar Patel
    Malhar Patel
    Malhar L Patel is a Kenyan cricketer. A right-handed middle order batsman, he made his One Day International debut in the 2004 Champions Trophy match versus Pakistan at Edgbaston in Birmingham.-References:...

  • Hiren Varaiya
    Hiren Varaiya
    Hiren Ashok Varaiya is a Kenyan cricket player. He is a right-handed batsman and a left arm spin bowler. He made his debut for Kenya in an ICC Intercontinental Cup game against Canada at Maple Leaf Cricket Club on 29 July 2006. He has since represented Kenya in three One Day Internationals...

  • Alex Obanda
  • Rakep Patel
    Rakep Patel
    Rakep Rajendra Patel is a Kenyan international cricketer. He made his lone performance for the Kenya Select team in their inaugural season, and found himself called up to the national squad for their tour of Europe, including a tour of the Netherlands and the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier...

  • Rajesh Bhudia
    Rajesh Bhudia
    Rajesh Bhudia is a Kenyan cricketer. He is part of their 15 man squad for the 2007 Cricket World Cup.-External links:...

  • Nehemiah Odhiambo
  • Alfred Luseno
  • Elijah Otieno
    Elijah Otieno
    Elijah Otieno Asoyo is a Kenyan cricketer. A right arm medium-fast bowler, Otieno is a former Kenyan under-19 representative. He made his senior debut playing for Kenya Select in the 2006/07 Logan Cup. A genuine tailender, he made five ducks from his first seven first-class innings. He was then...

  • Prasan Shrinivas
  • Sagar Kharia.

1st Reserve: Mansuk Naran
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