Kenyan hockey teams hand out walkovers after travel delay

The national five-a-side field hockey team handed out a walkeover after failing to honor the opening match at the ongoing 2024 World Cup qualifier games in Ismailia, Egypt.

The men and women sides had been scheduled to play against Nigeria and Zambia on Saturday but had to forfeit those games due to travel delay.

Kenya had attempted to have the games postponed through a letter from Kenya Hockey Union (KHU) president Nahashon Randiek who is in Egypt on officiating assignments.

But that request was turned down, according to the KHU Secretary General Wycliffe Ongori who spoke to Citizen Digital.

 Ongori indicated the Kenyan squad would travel later Saturday night.

”We were waiting for a green light letter from the immigration office which has delayed our travelling. But the squad shall jet out today at around quarter to midnight,” the official said.

The six-day event will see the first three countries proceed to Muscat, Oman in January 2024, to represent Africa in the five-a-side World Cup.