Mediation

[Richard Jenkins]

Well I've just read that mediation is being offered to the cricketers who "resigned" from the zimbabwe set up and I feel that (perhaps naively)this is a step in the right direction. If the ZCU were to be thrown out of the ICC it would be a bad thing for African cricket (not that I condone anything they've done ,or the set up, or any political dodgyness).
What a strance yo-yo affair this has been with England(ECB) looking threatened, then ZCU .
Archbishop Tutu has said his tuppenceworth also, and this was that he is for a boycott.

I hope against hope that a Zim team can be melded together with the best players and that it happens in time to take Sri Lanka to the cleaners to teach them for picking an understrength side.However I think Sri Lanka must feel sad at the situation also, having travelled there at great expense, to be in the eye of the storm must be somewhat puzzling. Never underestimate the opposition.

Hope springs eternal?

[butchering lee]

it´s too late for this match (to pick a good team) and streaks comments about not trusting concessions is a huge step backwards.

tutu is a darling of the west - i like the guy, but since the fall of apartheid he´s not said too much out of line with western thinking. of course, western thinking could be right , but it´s so often a matter of judging by one´s own standards as is one´s natural inheritance - i´m not critising anyone for it..

[Richard Jenkins]

I didn't know heath streak had said that. I guess he feels a lot of mistrust;and I think that's the end for him, second chances won't come now. The teams been chopped and changed again so I guess the chanches of even batting 50 overs are slim.
I felt that Tutu was dragged in as a figurehead that westerners could hang on to, and ok I like the guy also but i feel the same as you, he needs perhaps to be constructive and concilitory , to actually try to go into the lions den to solve the problem?
If ZCU loose their test and ICC status, they will have brought it on themselves probably, but it would be desperatly sad for Cricket , even though the board is puppets. perhaps a new infrastructure can grow from the grass roots; cricket is now being played in all junior schools in Zimbabwe and this bodes well for the future.
perhaps aftr the battering a new butterflty can emerge.
perhaps Mugabwe will pass away?

I pray for the best for Zimbabwe whatever that may be.

[butchering lee]

streaks comment are a bit like chirac´s to the coalition before the war in iraq (along the lines of we´ll veto regardless)- they then had a field day and thus the war began.

Mugabe´s passing is awaited in many zim. circles