Des Wilson resignes

[Ernest]

Originally Posted by Essex Eagle

The ECB should do this, the ECB should do that....

Frankly they will be damned if they do and damned if they dont.

The ECB's duty is to ensure English Crickets survival..... hence why they must tour Zimbabwe.

The British Government have left them up Sh*t creek without a paddle.

It rankles with me that as soon as they announce the tour is on, Blair and co will denounce them ( at the same time as british companies continue to trade there)

As for the ICC, well that organisation is full of people who just love a bit of pommie bashing for the sake of it .

I for one hope we tour, all hell breaks loose & several people are shot dead........ then i want to hear what the ICC have to say.

The ECB also has a duty for the safety of the players,I dont think they should go ,I am all for them sticking their thumbs up at the ICC,leaving it if need be,others would follow.

All hell will break loose in that country as sure as the sun rises every day,would you want to be in the middle of it?

What are the ECB there for if it is not to make dec

[Essex Eagle]

Safety is not an issue, according to the ICC.

If the ECB instructs England not to tour they are virtually bankrupting English Cricket

Its like Turkeys voting for Xmas..... it wont happen and i dont blame them.

[Ernest]

Originally Posted by Essex Eagle

Safety is not an issue, according to the ICC.

If the ECB instructs England not to tour they are virtually bankrupting English Cricket

Its like Turkeys voting for Xmas..... it wont happen and i dont blame them.

safety is not an issue according to the ICC,Then let the ICC go and play there,there has been a lot of anti British feeling srirred up in Zimbabwe,who are the ICC to say it is safe.
Like you imply the ECB are in an impossible possition,what are they to do,let the ICC bankrupt us,the government should pick up any tag,as this is an issue well above the heads of cricket.
So if the ECB decide to go,it will be for financial reasons,what will we gain cricketwise from such a tour nothing,the players will only go half hearted,and the results will be meaningless.

[Ernest]

Originally Posted by Richard Jenkins

It is often said that sport and politics should never mix. This is wrong. The sporting ban against South Africa was successful because it turned the weapons of the apartheid state against itself. The ruling white minority, so many of them ardent sports fans, were made to feel excluded from respectable society and that there could be no normal relations with an abnormal society. People such as Margaret Thatcher could never understand why South Africa was excluded from the family of sporting nations when the Soviet Union, Iran, China and many other tyrannies were not. Similar things are said today when the issue of England's forthcoming autumn tour of Zimbabwe is discussed. the England and Wales Cricket Board must take a lead and cancel England's tour of Zimbabwe. And they must do so solely on moral grounds.
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Richard

No England team should tour Zimbabwe,apart fom the moral grounds which you have gone into ,but there are other reasons why England should not tour Zimbabwe.

If there were fears for the players safety during the world cup,what new evidence is there to support that it is safe for the players to tour this year.
The players dont want to go,and who can blame them.

Mr Blair,you preach we should not tour Zimbabwe,stop being week,instruct the ECB not to go,and pay the ECB compensation if need be.Lead from the front.