Zimbabwe's Future?

[GIMH]

if BCCI vote for Zim so will PAK SL and BAN boards..so that makes it 5-5

Yeah, thought that might be the case, and as such AWTB...

If so, the BCCI shouldn't be the only one getting the blame here for this (if things go like they probably will).

 

[andruid]

I'm surprised the people haven't started an uprising yet.

Considering the stse monopoly on means of violent action it is`hardly a good idea. Word on the streets implies that there may be a mass exodus though.

 

[Langeveldt]

I'm surprised the people haven't started an uprising yet.

Won't happen in Zimbabwe.. Like I say, the only way we will see the end of Mugabe is when he dies..

 

[Jonty Lathwal]

BCCI is with Zim....so i think they will save Zimbabwe,.....

 

[Jonty Lathwal]

ICC should take a step forward and assasinate Mugabe.........

 

[Perm]

Even if Zimbabwe aren't stripped of their Test and ODI status, will countries bother to go? I'd venture that it would be pretty easy to pull out of a tour of Zimbabwe on grounds of team safety, and I doubt many countries are going to let Zimbabwe come into their country to play cricket with all the drama that is going on back home.

 

[brockley]

Thats fair enough perm.
India just want their vote they won't actually play them(pulled out of this years tour) just as india won't play bangladesh they just want their votes thats all.

 

[Craig]

ICC should take a step forward and assasinate Mugabe.........

Maybe the ICC should step in and tell the BCCI to piss off because they don't run the game. Screw this voting thing, because it is corrupt anyway

 

[Jono]

The ICC isn't a separate body though, its a body run by the member nations.

Hence if Ind, SL, Pak and Bangladesh vote against Zimbabwe's exclusion, the ICC are actually powerless.

 

[Jono]

WHether the BCCI bans Zimbabwe or not makes not one iota of difference......

Talk is cheap. If the Brits really care about the Zimbabwean people, why not team up with your buddies across the Atlantic and launch an invasion of Zimbabwe ?
Hell why not do it yourself....a regiment of Royal Gurkhas should be enough to take harare.

But heh its warm and fuzzy to issue the few token statements of disapproval and take the moral high ground when it suits you.
Why didn't you take the same position in Rwanda or Sierra Leone or Darfur ?

Yeah the ECB should invade Zimbabwe.

Pietersen can be platoon leader

 

[Craig]

Yeah the ECB should invade Zimbabwe.

Pietersen can be platoon leader

Should hire Justin Langer as a mercenary.

 

[brockley]

Will be interesting to see what a fica ban brings up.
Zimbabwe's next 2 series are against srilanka,and as far as i know srilanka players belong to fica.(no loss to srilanka because zimbabwe shows do not have tv coverage in zimbabwe) so no tv rights.

 

[andruid]

The only real hope we have is if an ICC ban starts an avalanche of suspensions and bans froim other bodies in which Zimbabwe are members. To bad neither are likely to happen

 

[Jonty Lathwal]

Maybe the ICC should step in and tell the BCCI to piss off because they don't run the game. Screw this voting thing, because it is corrupt anyway

U mean BCCI is corrupt????????????

 

[GIMH]

Grinds my gears, this block voting lark, it really does. I could scream tbh.

 

[Richard]

It used to, then I accepted it as inevitable. Possibly deliberately so as a defense mechanism against being annoyed by it, so reprehensible is it.

 

[silentstriker]

It's weird though, its astonishing how politicized it is. Such an overwhelming percentage of actions supported by England are also supported by South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and opposed by the Asian block, and an equally large amount of actions are supported by India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Zimbabwe and opposed by the rest. West Indies tends to be the only board that doesn't seem to be in one camp or another most of the time, followed by South Africa.

I can understand that some politicization is inevitable, but this is ridiculous. BCCI were powerless for most of cricket's history, and the Imperial Cricket Council pretty much ran cricket like their own personal fiefdom, and India just look like they're trying to just do some payback, and unfortunately it shows their childishness, hurts cricket, and keeps the whole thing fractured. Obviously, BCCI are not alone in fault, but they are a big part of the corruption. You can't have a body made up of corrupt politicians and have avenues of advancement within the organization determined solely by politics, and then expect that body to act in an altruistic manner in the international stage. Unfortunately, something radical needs to happen to the internal structure of the BCCI before we see some changes at the ICC level. The rot runs deep.

Haha, that could be a decent article...just slag off on the BCCI for eight paragraphs.

 

[Langeveldt]

Grinds my gears, this block voting lark, it really does. I could scream tbh.

What grinds my gears is the fact that Mugabe has just won an election against himself and everyone's like "Aw cute! Thats quite naughty though!" If he was white, people would be going around trashing branches of Barclays and Old Mutual..

 

[andruid]

What grinds my gears is the fact that Mugabe has just won an election against himself and everyone's like "Aw cute! Thats quite naughty though!" If he was white, people would be going around trashing branches of Barclays and Old Mutual..

But then no one outside the handful of rioters burning down Old`Mutual an Barclays branches would care

 

[biased indian]

Really?

Where I've been looking people have always made quite some effort to tread pretty carefully where North Korea is concerned.

thank god North Korea don't play cricket ...other wise ICC would have to lead by example in that case also