Will cricket die in Zimbabwe?

saadadvanced7 · Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 28 Location: Canada

Just read another article on cricinfo.

This is getting really weird.

Here it is:

Bvute and Chingoka still in charge

Cricinfo staff

December 2, 2005

Ozias Bvute: no truth in suggestions he had been ousted © ZC

Earlier reports that Peter Chingoka, the Zimbabwe Cricket chairman, and Ozias Bvute, the managing director, had been removed from office have been fervently denied by Bvute himself.

Speaking to Cricinfo, Bvute said that the rumour that his house had been raised by police at 4am was "simply not true" and that, contrary to reports, both he and Chingoka were still in Harare and in full charge of ZC.

The original suggestion that the pair had been removed from office was made by Tatenda Taibu, the former Zimbabwe captain, in an interview with the BBC. He suggested that Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president, had stepped in and had them removed from office. "The president said, 'Enough is enough, they had to go'," Taibu claim. "But when they looked for them, they couldn't find them."

Bvute said factions opposed to the ZC board had "found it convenient to tell these malicious stories to discredit us. I was asleep at 4am and left my house at 8am this morning to go to work. I have not been raided and I don't believe anyone has raided Mr Chingoka's house either."

David · Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 31 Location: Maidstone, Kent

The latest in this sorry tale is that Zimbabwe have voluntarily withdrawn from Test cricket until February 2007. They will still tour the West Indies in April but will play only the five ODIs that were scheduled. That seems a sensible move considering the beatings they've been getting in the last 2 or 3 years.

The West Indies board probably aren't happy about losing two home Tests, but they wouldn't have had very good attendances anyway.

saadadvanced7 · Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 28 Location: Canada

Yea, and Ehsan Mani, the President of the useless ICC thinks its a great idea for Zimbabwe to withdraw themselves from the test stage. He says it will give them some time to solve their problems.

Ken Bailey · Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Tampa

Na, I dont think it will die. It might minimize for a while if anything but it will e back up.