Taibu into hiding

[DaveGillespie]

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/zimba...ry/225390.html

This is absolutely ridiculous and cannot continue. If the ICC will not ban a Cricket Board which forces their own captain to go into hiding for fear of his life, what will it take?

[Vrock]

I have no idea how they could let it get to this. I'm sure that if they don't do something soon the ICC will have to intervene.

[Richie Benauds Love Child]

Truley dreadful, but the ICC wont do anything. Imagine the meeting. "Hands up who thinkk s we should do something about Zim....yes ECB we now you do..anyone else...........New Zealand, sorry didnt see you there......anyone else.....nobody else. Motion failed............oh do be quiet ECB, its clear the rest of us dont give a tupenny toss."

Ask pretty much anybody any where else and thats the attitude you'll get - I guarentee it.

[cantplaycantalk]

Perhaps the ICC will listen now that the player raising the issue is black.

As a member of a mixed race family I am sick of racism being regarded as only a white on black (inc any other non-white) issue. I can tell you it is at least as prevalent in reverse.

In Zimbabwe it seems to be as bad black on white now as it was in reverse in the southern USA in the 50's, it is sickening and the fact that a number of African countries voice support for the views that Mugabe espouses is just as bad.

[Vrock]

Well, all we can hope is that it gets sorted.

[Occasional Fan]

RBLC makes an important point in his post: the ICC, although we all love to knock it, actually really only exists as the sum of its member boards. In the end, therefore, it is up to the national boards of the full member nations to make up their minds what to do about the Zimbabwe crisis. The choice really is whether to act in concert - which I think would be desirable - or individually, which would be a second-best position. I see no sense at all in the cricketing world maintaining any relations with ZC as things stand at present. If the world will not move as one, then let it move individually. I for one would have no problem if, say, the ECB (or CA, PCB, BCCI or anyone else) brought the motion to exclude ZC from the ICC and then, if the motion failed, walked away from the ICC itself. The position in Zimbabwe is truly dreadful, to judge from the recent reports, and to continue to give credence to ZC and the corrupt and tyrannical individuals in and behind it is no longer defensible. Isolate them, and do it now.

[Collyisamackem]

This is surely it, the ICC can't use the "we don't do politics" angle on this one again surely.

[Vrock]

Well the ICC will do what they like, I suspect that most of them don't even want Zimbabwe as a test team. **cough cough** New Zealand **cough cough**.

[greg]

As far as i am concerned this has to be the final nail in the coffin of Zimbabwe as a test nation.If England players are made to tour there i would back them 100% if any player pulled out.Something has to be done but the ICC will stick their heads in the sand and do nothing.

[Vrock]

I think if players ended up having to go to Zim. the teams would send out weaker sides, or simply anyone who actaully wanted to go therefore reducing the standard of the cricket played.