You may very well be correct. Actually you definitely are.Jemisi wrote:The original injury is the farm invasions. The blank cheque that was written to the thieves at that time in the nation's history has allowed us to get to this point.
Cutting off the cash may well reduce the number of thieves but it won't get rid of them. I have seen too many people stealing the smallest scraps from one another. ZC will thieve and waste an Assoc. Budget just like they do a Full Member one.
I don't think being chucked out is the way forward. The only way forward is getting rid of the crooks and their ghost workers through a new political setup.
But how do you fix the political setup without revolution or a civil war? Its like proposing an end to terrorism in Pakistan, war in Afghanistan, and corruption in Bangladesh. Zimbabwe would have to become a fundementally different country to gain good governance. Put another way, Sri Lanka, in terms of human development are a league ahead of Bangladesh, Pakistan, and even India. Yet their board is also not the best run unit in cricket. Some of it comes down to luck. There is no other way to explain why Bangladesh and Afghanistan have semi-decently run cricket boards other than pure luck. We can't run anything else remotely well. Could also be anti Murphy's law...surely, not everything in a system can be fucked up, right?
So there is a 0.1% chance of smoothly fixing the general climate in Zimbabwe. But even then, what happens on field when all the off field issues are resolved?
The most important thing is all the money, and its not just a few hundred thousand dollars but tens of millions of dollars that ZC wastes that other sides lose out on that is disappointing and even infuriating. I cannot imagine how I'd feel if it were Bangladesh instead of Afghanistan or Ireland. It would even be unacceptable if the money was being put to good use and Zimbabwe still lost matches. But this is like a double insult.
I just hope the ICC gives the BCCI the 21% they have currently, and then push the full member criteria out, demote ZC to Associate member, create the 9-3 Test league and 13 team ODI league, and finally bring context and meritocracy to international cricket.