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Matabeleland chairman stands down

Matabeleland Cricket Association chairman Ahmet Esat has stepped down from his post

Cricinfo staff
12-Dec-2005
The ongoing crisis blighting Zimbabwe Cricket has produced another casualty with the news that Matabeleland Cricket Association chairman Ahmet Esat has stepped down from his post and ceased to be a ZC board member.
Former Matabeleland medium pace bowler Ethan Dube, who is also on the national and provincial selection panel, has replaced Esat. Dube was unanimously elected by the clubs at a delegates meeting held at Queens Sports Club last Wednesday and also replaces Esat on the ZC board.
In his letter of resignation to both ZC chairman Peter Chingoka and the Matabeleland board dated 2 December 2005, Esat made it clear that he did not want to be associated with the controversy bedeviling cricket in Zimbabwe. He said, however, that the main reason for relinquishing his post was because he is undertaking an international pharmaceutical examination in the United States which will see him move there for the next six months and he said it was unfair for the game if he was to cling onto his post.
Esat became MCA chairman in 2002 when the then incumbent Rob Whiley stepped down, and was formally elected to the post in 2003 and then re-elected last year on a revised two-year term ending in July 2006.
Dube is no pushover and is one of the many people advocating the removal of Chingoka and Ozias Bvute from office and that is certainly not good news for pair.
In normal circumstances, Stanley Staddon, the MCA vice-chairman who also seats on the ZC board and who is a close ally of Chingoka and Bvute, should have taken control until next year's AGM but it is understood that he declined to take up the post.