Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Southern Stars

Using First Class/ List A Status as a measure of notabililty for domestic teams that operate in countries that do have full membership in the ICC is in my view comparable to using availability of fish as a measure of notabilility of the Sahara desert. To the best of my knowledge the criteria for List A and First Class matches involves the premise that if the country is not a full member of the International Cricket Council then only games involving the full national teams can get List A/First Class status. Therefore using this criteria to measure of notabilility of domestic teams in light of the above amounts to making it impossible to provide any coverage of the domestic game in any associate country not just Kenya. I submit that a more realistic measure of notability be set up (perhaps based on contribution to the national team, or being the highest tier competition in that region) be used for assessing the notability of teams and competitions held outside full member of the ICC.

Significance of the Sahara Elite League aside from First Class/List A status
Status aside, the Sahara Elite League represented a watershed in Kenyan Cricket as it marked a shift from reliance provincial based leagues (particularly Nairobi) to a nationwide approach in selection from the national team. Though the tournament itself was quite short lived coverage a little hard to find (at least in mainstream cricket media) its role nonetheless is still too significant to the growth of Kenyan cricket not to deserve at least a mention. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kimemia Maina (talk • contribs) 11:30, 30 September 2011 (UTC)