Kenya lose another player on tour

Kenya suffered a further blow on their difficult tour of South Africa when seam bowler Joseph Angara was forced to withdraw from the team late on Sunday due to the news that his mother had died.

Angara, who earned the man of the match award after Kenya's surprise 70-run win over India last Tuesday, was due to leave early Monday, the day the tourists are playing South Africa at Newlands.

Captain Maurice Odumbe and Sandeep Gupta are already both set to miss the match due to suspension and injury respectively.

Odumbe had to serve a two-match suspension for publicly criticising an umpire and will only be eligible for Kenya's final match against India in Paarl on Wednesday.

The tourists have been forced to recall batsman Hitesh Modi, who is on a working holiday in South Africa, to the squad.

Without the three missing players Kenya were down to 11 squad members before the inclusion of Modi.

"This is a crisis, we're battling for players," Kenyan coach Sandeep Patil said.

Kenya will be forced into the remaining two matches one bowler short as Modi is a middle-order batsman.

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