Zimbabwe on the backfoot
Siddhartha Mishra, in his article in the Indian Express , tries to examine some of the reasons why Zimbabwe, who lit up the previous World Twenty20 with a shock win over Australia, find themselves in oblivion two years hence.
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Siddhartha Mishra, in his article in the Indian Express, tries to examine some of the reasons why Zimbabwe, who lit up the previous World Twenty20 with a shock win over Australia, find themselves in oblivion two years hence.
Why is Zimbabwe, a cricketing nation with Full Member status, not out there, entertaining our 20/20 vision-endowed eyeballs with its brand of slam-bang cricket? Politics. Much as the question is thought-provoking, the answer, shorn of subtlety, is disappointingly clichéd.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo