Coached by the famous West Indian Alvin Kalicharran, they made England struggle for every wicket, as their batsmen, early in the innings, put up a brave fight. Their approach was in direct contrast to that of the Bangladeshis the previous day, who surrendered meekly to the Kiwis.Steve Tikolo gave a demonstration of why he is Kenya's best batsman. He played some pleasing drives during his knock and established an important partnership with the elegant Ravindo Shah. The latter too played with a lot of confidence and struck the ball with tremendous power.

Apart from these two, however, only Thomas Odoyo showed any signs of resistance later in the innings, and Kenya folded up for just over 200 -- a less imposing total than one had expected them to finish with at one stage.England, fresh from theirtriumph over former world champs Sri Lanka, looked positive and confident. However, their attack looks a bit thin with bowlers like Ealham, Hollioake and Austin having to bowl their full quota of overs.England's win over Lanka seems to have done their morale a world of good, for it showed in their performance. Certainly, there's no better tonic than winning matches. Even if matches are closely fought, in the ultimate analysis it is victory that counts.

This is something the Indians are, in all probability, likely to find out in their second encounter today. It must be said, that though they went down to South Africa, they had played very well in their campaign opener. They will, nevertheless, do well to remember that they just can't afford to bowl the inexperienced Agarkar in the death.

Also, the Indians will have to bowl a much fuller length than they did at Hove the other day. And who is better than the expereinced duo of Srinath and Prasad to do so.

Agarkar's mistake is that he's trying to bowl quickon these slow English wickets. Because of that, his deliveries come onto the bat nicely for the batsmen to play their shots. Besides, a slight error in line or length on his part could result in him being punished severely.

As such, Azhar would be better off finishing Agarkar early in the innings if things go well for India at that stage.

There's two more things the Indians will have to do. That is to improve their running between wickets, and start improvising earlier than they actually did against South Africa, especially when they had wickets in hand.