On April 17th 2016, the Kenyan rugby fraternity was ecstatic. It felt good to be Kenyan. We had finally arrived. The impossible had been achieved. Kenya 7s had won the main Cup at HSBC finals at the Singapore Sevens, against the formidable Fiji, the most successful rugby sevens playing nation in the world.
Victory is a thousand times sweeter, when you are the underdog and the sports field is one of the few arenas where the underestimated can rise to prominence. Many must have missed the significance of the Mike Friday versus Benjamin Ayimba clash during the Sydney leg of the International Sevens Rugby circuit, 2016. Mike Friday…