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Zimbabwe Cricket's player contracts debate took a surprise turn after the board withdrew the contract offers to three players - Stuart Carlisle, Neil Ferreira and Barney Rogers.
On Thursday, ZC announced that only three players - Heath Streak, Tatenda Taibu and Andy Blignaut - would get long-term contracts, but four other senior players, Trevor Gripper, Doug Marillier, Mark Vermuelen and Mluleki Nkala, did not even make the initial list of 27 players to get the level-one performance-based contracts.
The board said that the decision to give short-term performance-related contracts had resulted from recent poor displays. "It's a strange decision," one of the players made the offer said. "It's completely taken everyone by surprise. It's a body blow. We are not sure of the reasons why ZC had to resort to such a move. It hasn't helped morale at all ahead of the next game (on Sunday against India).
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Typical Zimbabwe Cricket garbage! Rogers has been one of our shining lights through the tour of South Africa, and previously in Bangladesh. Ferreira deserves an extended run, and players like Carlisle are the ones who cope with pressure the best. And...how the hell are Gripper, Marrilier, Vermuelen and Nkala not in the best twenty seven players.
ICC; please put a ban on Zimbabwe.