ZimMetro News
7th August 2019
By Lucky Mahorse
Former education minister David Coltart has blasted the International Cricket Council for suspending the Zimbabwe men and women’s teams from participating in the upcoming. T20 Qualifiers tournament.
Namibia will now take Zimbabwe’s place in Scotland. While Nigeria will replace Zimbabwe at Men’s T20Q in UAE.
Said Coltart
“The ICC really have lost the plot. How they can prejudice our professional cricketers like this is beyond me. I am beginning to think this is racist or rather neo-colonialist. It appears they simply don’t care about cricket in Africa. It is hard to imagine professional cricketers on the subcontinent, Europe or Australasia being dealt with like this.
What is even more disturbing is the deafening silence from cricket writers and other cricket professionals throughout the world. They are complicit by their silence. The ICC suspended Zimbabwe over a failure to keep the sport free from government interference.”