Bad week continues for ZImbabwe Cricket

A difficult and embarrassing week for Zimbabwe Cricket continued to get worse with the news that the announcements of the new panel of selectors, which was made on Monday, will be overturned as the committee meeting at which the decisions were taken was unconstitutional.

Zimbabwe Cricket is already in the firing line after it barred all journalists from its AGM in Bulawayo, claiming that reporters had "caused trouble" at the meeting in 2004. Those writers questioned by Cricinfo were in no doubt that the real reason was that the board did not want to have to answer some potentially difficult questions on the way the game is being run.

That came less than 24 hours after Zimbabwe players delivered a damning attack on the board's activities and the way that the national cricketers are treated.

It now seems that the committee meeting will be declared void as the six board members who were in attendance did not constitute a quorum under ZC's own rules.

Despite the growing unrest with the board's activities, an ICC spokesman refused to comment on what is described as an "internal matter".