The end is nigh for Zimbabwe

Cricinfo's managing editor, Martin Williamson, believes the game in Zimbabwe is in an almost terminal decline and even Robert Mugabe's mouthpiece, the Zimbabwe Herald, seems to agree. The Herald article is mostly a good one, so you should go and read it. It was written by Zimbabwe's "cricket writer of the year" after all. The fact that this award was made by Robert Mugabe can perhaps be seen in the statement near the bottom that:

...the New Zealand cricketers earned themselves a good three days to go on a tour of the country's holiday resorts with Kariba and Victoria Falls being first options.

Given the warnings from Phil Goff about Mugabe using images of players frolicking as propaganda, I suspect that any New Zealand cricketer who goes anywhere near a holiday resort while in Zimbabwe won't get much of a welcome home.