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Rebels agree middle-man to liaise with board

Rebels agree middle-man to liaise with board

A ray of hope has emerged in the ongoing dispute between the Zimbabwe Cricket Union and the 15 disaffected players

07-May-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Rebels prepare to tear up contracts

Rebels prepare to tear up contracts

Zimbabwe's 15 rebel Test players have said that if they are not granted arbitration by Friday then they will tear up their contracts

06-May-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Straw: 'British sport is not state-run'

Straw: 'British sport is not state-run'

After talks today between the government and the ECB on the thorny issue of England's proposed tour of Zimbabwe, the outcome was predictably indecisive

06-May-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

England shouldn't tour Zimbabwe, says Tony Blair

England shouldn't tour Zimbabwe, says Tony Blair

Tony Blair, the British prime minister, has said that he does not want England's scheduled tour of Zimbabwe to go ahead

05-May-2004•Steven Lynch

'Zimbabwe tour morally wrong' - Stewart

'Zimbabwe tour morally wrong' - Stewart

Alec Stewart, who represented England for over a decade before retiring at the age of 40 last year, has said that the proposed tour of Zimbabwe in October is both unsafe and morally wrong

05-May-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Ozais Bvute: the ZCU's loose cannon

Ozais Bvute: the ZCU's loose cannon

More stories have emerged over the weekend concerning the bully-boy tactics of Zimbabwe Cricket Union board member Ozais Bvute

04-May-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Rebels to boycott Test

Rebels to boycott Test

The four 'rebel' Zimbabwean cricketers selected for the first Test against Sri Lanka, which starts at Harare on Thursday, have pulled out of the match after the Zimbabwe Cricket Union refused a request from the 15 disaffected players for independent

04-May-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Rebels to boycott Test

Rebels to boycott Test

The four 'rebel' Zimbabwean cricketers selected for the first Test against Sri Lanka, which starts at Harare on Thursday, have pulled out of the match after the Zimbabwe Cricket Union refused a request from the 15 disaffected players for independent

04-May-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Rebels to boycott Test

Rebels to boycott Test

The four 'rebel' Zimbabwean cricketers selected for the first Test against Sri Lanka, which starts at Harare on Thursday, have pulled out of the match after the Zimbabwe Cricket Union refused a request from the 15 disaffected players for independent

04-May-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Lamb to the slaughter?

Lamb to the slaughter?

As the ECB lurches ever deeper into the Zimbabwe crisis, their chief executive for the past eight years, Tim Lamb, is facing a vote of no-confidence from the chairmen of the 18 first-class counties

02-May-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Thorpe undecided on Zimbabwe tour

Thorpe undecided on Zimbabwe tour

Graham Thorpe has criticised the England board and the government for failing to make a firm decision on whether England will tour Zimbabwe this autumn

30-Apr-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Rebels issue Tuesday ultimatum to board

Rebels issue Tuesday ultimatum to board

Zimbabwe's rebel players have given the Zimbabwe Cricket Union (ZCU) a deadline of Tuesday to agree to arbitration to try and bring the dispute to a conclusion

29-Apr-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Angry Wilson quits ECB with attack on ICC

Angry Wilson quits ECB with attack on ICC

Des Wilson has resigned from the management board of the England and Wales Cricket Board after failing in his attempts to persuade them to take a strong moral stand over this November's proposed tour of Zimbabwe

28-Apr-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Rebels set to resume training

Rebels set to resume training

The stand-off between the 15 rebel cricketers and the Zimbabwe Cricket Union may be nearing an end, after it was announced by the ZCU that the players would be returning to training on April 30, and that they were back in consideration for selection

28-Apr-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Zimbabwe face ICC suspension

Zimbabwe face ICC suspension

Zimbabwe's capitulation in Sunday's third one-day international against Sri Lanka, in which they were bowled out for a new record-low of 35, could have far-reaching consequences in the corridors of the ICC, according to Mihir Bose, the Daily

26-Apr-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Desmond Tutu calls for Zimbabwe boycott
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the veteran anti-apartheid campaigner, has given his backing to England's cricketers as they ponder whether or not to tour Zimbabwe
25-Apr-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Financial worries leave England ready to tour
One the day that a leading British journalist was deported from Harare, and another barred from reporting at Bulawayo, the England and Wales Cricket Board all but confirmed that November's planned tour of Zimbabwe would go ahead
21-Apr-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Leading journalist expelled from Zimbabwe
Mihir Bose, the awardwinning sports journalist, has been thrown out of Zimbabwe by immigration officials
20-Apr-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

ECB can afford to play the waiting game
Officials from the England & Wales Cricket Board will meet with their Zimbabwean counterparts at Lord's on Tuesday to discuss the prospects of this November's tour of Zimbabwe by England going ahead
19-Apr-2004•Martin Williamson

Zimbabwe rebels vow to expose corruption
Thirteen of the white Zimbabwean cricketers who were last week "sacked" by the Zimbabwe Cricket Union have vowed to expose the culture of corruption and malpractice within their governing body, in a last-ditch bid to get themselves reinstated
13-Apr-2004•Wisden Cricinfo staff

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