What did you expect? They are all piss weak and Zimbabwe has nothing that the rest of the world wants. And I trust you to know what I mean there.The saddest thing is that this thread even exists – the ICC and the game obviously should do all that they can to prevent Zimbabwe playing international cricket but how the UN and wider international community can just sit back and simply make disapproving noises in the light of irrefutable evidence of large scale human rights abuses is totally beyond me.
Yeah, and be ostracised from the World game. Great idea.England should have made a stand years ago. We should also tell the ICC where to stick it regarding Zimbabwe.
Nail on head.Oh come on. Is it the ECB, or Cricket Australia, or The ICC's job to be the world's conscience on this issue? I mean FIFA do not give a sh*t what the political situation of whatever country is so long as their stooges in the relevant governing body are left out of it. (Kenya played a World cup qualifier in Harare yesterday!! and nobody seemed overly concerened) therefore why are we expecting so much from the ICC who even worse than FIFA, has people high up in its ranks who have directly bnefitted from the junta currently running Zimbabwe into the ground. While it would probably more immoral for he ECB to avoid Zimbabwe for the time being what Zim Cricket needs is the ICC to sort itself out.
Kenya played a World cup qualifier in Harare yesterday!! and nobody seemed overly concerened
AWTA, beat me to it.Is anyone on here stupid enough to think that sporting isolation will work against Robert Mugabe? Some romantics appear to think it was some moral-high grounding that bought down the entire apartheid regime.. I somehow doubt they were going to give it all up for a few tests in England!
Is anyone on here stupid enough to think that sporting isolation will work against Robert Mugabe? Some romantics appear to think it was some moral-high grounding that bought down the entire apartheid regime.. I somehow doubt they were going to give it all up for a few tests in England!
What a ridiculous thing to say (and what an unnecessarily offensive way of saying it).Is anyone on here stupid enough to think that sporting isolation will work against Robert Mugabe?
I think its painfully obvious in Zim that things are not normal.. Doesn't need a lack of sport to tell them that.. If anything, sport could be a welcome diversion there, if anyone could afford to go and watch it..Mugabe is saying he'll only be removed by God, so a sporting boycott won't be giving him nightmares. To send a team there though would be sendng the wrong message to the Zim people plus the world that relations are normal and would set the campaign back.
Over reaction, no? I've heard countless times on here how we should be taking a moral high ground in <insert country> to help bring <insert dictator> down.. Yeah sport and politics might mix, but one is SO much more important in Zimbabwe.. It seems some cricket fans think their sport is more important than it really is, politically, in the here and now, it has very little bearing on anything unless there is huge amounts of money involved..What a ridiculous thing to say (and what an unnecessarily offensive way of saying it).
No-one here is suggesting that sport is going to bring Mugabe down. However proper worldwide sanctions may help and sport is but one small component in that.
Moreover, and quite apart from that, it is distasteful and inappropriate, to say the least, that anyone is playing sport with Zimbabwe, in the same sort of way that it was distasteful and inappropriate for other nations to participate in Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics.
haha, sensitive much?What a ridiculous thing to say (and what an unnecessarily offensive way of saying it).
No-one here is suggesting that sport is going to bring Mugabe down. However proper worldwide sanctions may help and sport is but one small component in that.
Moreover, and quite apart from that, it is distasteful and inappropriate, to say the least, that anyone is playing sport with Zimbabwe, in the same sort of way that it was distasteful and inappropriate for other nations to participate in Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics.
I saw that posed to someone representing Zim on Dateline, he said people are starving to death they don't care about watching cricket. Touring or accepting a tour from Zim would however show the Zim people that the int. community IMO are not that serious about dealing with the problems. They'll look at the successful boycott against SAF and wonder why they are not getting the same support.I think its painfully obvious in Zim that things are not normal.. Doesn't need a lack of sport to tell them that.. If anything, sport could be a welcome diversion there, if anyone could afford to go and watch it..