KCA constitutional review underway

Bob Merriman, the Australian board's chairman, has said that Kenyan cricket should look at what happened in Zimbabwe and use it as impetus for sorting out its own internal problems.

Merriman arrived in Nairobi on Monday from the ICC's board meeting in Lahore to join a nine-man committee charged with examining the Kenyan board's constitution.

The KCA has been dogged by in-fighting and accusations for several years, and last month that spilt over into a dispute with players over back-pay and contracts, which resulted in more than a dozen of them going on strike. "It is important that we have an idea of where we are going by January, when the report is presented to the ICC for the purpose of development," Merriman told reporters.

But the committee has already come under fire from the KCA's opponents. They argue that the majority of those chosen have ties to the board, and that those on it should have been picked through consultation with all parties to the dispute.

However, Sharad Ghai, the beleaguered KCA chairman, gave the committee his full support. "This is an effort to truly review the constitution, especially on matters to do with the electoral college, and the KCA is fully behind it," he said. "All the stakeholders have been informed well in advance to bring in their views and I sincerely hope they will participate."