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March 05, 2007 (Link to Scorecard)

Kenyans gave a tremendous fight to the hosts, West Indies in their warm up game at the newly constructed Trelawny Stadium in Greenfield. The victory margin for the home side was just 21 runs. The hero for the day was Marlon Samuels, the local boy who had scored a century before retiring back to the pavilion.

The toss for this game was won by Brian Lara who opted to bat first. The West Indian innings had revolved around the partnership of 70 between Chris Gayle (71) and Marlon Samuels (100 retired out from 114 balls with 7 fours and 2 sixes). Ramnaresh Sarwan in his comeback from a foot injury scored 27 before falling in the slogs. West Indies managed to put up 268 for 6 with Brian Lara not getting to bat.

The Kenyans struggled in their chase losing early wickets to Daren Powell and Corey Collymore and were almost out of the game. A couple of really good innings brought them back in the hunt but eventually they faltered in keeping the asking rate under a check. Leg Spinner, Collins Obuya didn't get to bowl, but he made his mark with the bat by remaining unbeaten on 54. Ravindu Shah and David Obuya were the other two significant contributors with 41 and 34. One of the most interesting things in this match was Lendl Simmons doing the wicket keeping duties with Denesh Ramdin being omitted from the 13 players for this match.

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