Are we about to start the moral debate yet again, because frankly speaking I've had quite a bit of it already. Zimbabwe are over in Pakistan these days, and they would shortly be taking part in a tri-series also involving Sri Lanka and the hosts. I think I'd follow that series despite being in disagreement with the Zimbabwean board over the stance it has taken with the rebel players. I'm against seeing Zimbabwe play test cricket because these guys cannot compete at test level, they can barely do that at one-day level, so perhaps that's marginally acceptable. If Pakistan were to tour, I'd want them to back out on not moral grounds, but on grounds that state one should not be playing a team selected on anything other than merit.

I've heard too many people say the people of Zimbabwe have suffered, and Mugabe is to put blame to it all. I don't disagree with that at all. But that things like those are happening in a lot of other countries as well - sport goes on there, without much of debate over the moral aspects. What can cricketers do anyway? Would Harmison's boycott in anyway help to restore respectibility to the lives of housands of shattered Zimbabwean? No, a very emphatic no. All it would do , is make him appear brave, and noble, some one which as Finger would say "showed great integrity". And why in all the world should sport and cricket in particular be made to seen as the ultimate test of morality? British based trade agencies continue to work in a Mugabe-led Zimbabwe, British airways flights continue to land in Harare, doesn't this contradict the view that touring Zimbabwe would give the impression England cricketer's don't care about the politics going on there? If any one at all should be concerned it those buisness men and not the cricketers.

The only reason to not play Zimbabwe should be because their selectors are racially biased. It should have nothing to do with what has been going on there. Because it makes no differences what so ever. Not touring Zimbabwe will not make life easier for the people who have suffered because of the tyrant that is in charge there. If at all anything that could help, would be to tour Zimabwe. For the sake of providing the people there with something they can cheer about. A few brief moments to cherish.