Iain Butchart's struggles in the 1992 CWC NZ match

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Iain Butchart's struggles in the 1992 CWC NZ match

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New Zealand, driven by their desire to do well on home soil in the CWC 1992, pressurized the authorities to push Zimbabwe to play a shortened mach, in atrocious conditions. There was no way a match was on in such conditions, and Zimbabweans lost a match they should not have even played. Here's a glimpse of how dangerous it was, as today's birthday boy Iain Butchart found out painfully:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxqGRvNd10A

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