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Old 04-03-2006, 01:47 PM in reply to Mongoose's post starting "We've talked and talked about this on,..."
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Originally Posted by Mongoose
but the the ICC is a sporting rather than political institution, .
I have always argued for their removal on political grounds - based on the fact that playing Cricket in a country when down the road people are starving, and the Government uses the Cricket as a political, is abhorrent.

But now there are valid Cricketing reasons - they can't put out an International team worthy of the name - (as well as the Political) so it's time for the ICC to act, based on Cricketing reasons, to omit Zimbabwe from all International Cricket!!
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