My bringing cricket down statement has nothing to do with politics.The current Zimbabwe side have just had to play off against the other 3 weakest (on rankings) teams and been thrashed in each game.What good does that do cricket to see one side getting thraped all the time even by the other allegedly poorer sides.Goodness knows how bad the games would have been had they ended up playing Australia,India or Pakistan.

As i have said if all the players returned i would have no problem with Zimbabwe playing top level international cricket but with the standard is currently so poor what good is it for all the other nations to have to take on the whipping boys?

Before you go on about recent records with Bangladesh i remind you that 5 of those games were in Zimbabwe and i also remind you that Bangladesh beat Australia last year ran them close in a test match and made Sri Lanka work extremely hard in their test series which shows the talent is there if given time and they haven't just pulled off one performance above what they normally do.