NAIROBI, Jan 3: Former Kenya cricket captain Steve Tikolo and nine other players who failed to appear before an International Cricket Council Anti-Corruption and Security Unit probe team last month will be ready to be interviewed in Nairobi next week, their lawyer said on Monday.

"The 10 players are going to meet the team when they return on Jan 9. They are more than happy to co-operate with the investigations," their lawyer Alan Kosgey told AFP. The players were among the original list of 14 members of the national team between 1999 and 2000 who had been summoned by the two detectives - Martin Hawkins and Alan Peacock during their last visit in December.

Kosgey had objected to the short notice his clients had been given to appear before the panel saying most of the players, who were no longer under contract with the Kenya Cricket Association were out of the country.

Only four players were interviewed by Hawkins and Peacock, who were members of the prosecution witnesses during the July 2004 tribunal that led to former Kenyan skipper Maurice Odumbe being banned for five years for his inappropriate contact with a bookmaker. -AFP