Playing with symbols

Peter Roebuck profiles Waddington Mwayenga - who he calls a "likeable, determined, polite, bright and athletic lad" - and goes on to lament the deeper problem surrounding cricket in Zimbabwe.

Mwayenga might have enjoyed a fairly impressive debut Test but the root of the problem persists. Roebuck writes:

What was it all about, all that fighting and posturing? ... Complacency amongst whites. Revenge amongst an angry and self-serving bunch of black administrators. Two rotten emotions that can destroy this continent as they are destroying Zimbabwean cricket. Two self-indulgences Africa cannot afford. Two wretched outlooks calculated to crush youthful idealism.