The ICC has shown it is a spineless and impotent organization by refusing to intervene in the Zimbabwean cricket crisis.

ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed said: “I am extremely saddened for the cricketers and people of Zimbabwe”.

The people of Zimbabwe don’t want sympathy, they want a cricket team they can follow with pride and affection. Not one ravaged by internal politics, and the refusal on the International ruling bodies’ reluctance to help.

Their captain Tatenda Taibu, has been forced into international retirement as well as hiding, after receiving death threats in front of Zimbabwe Cricket chairman Peter Chingoka. The other players are considering whether to follow Taibu’s example.

“If the stand-off continues, I am afraid to say there will be no cricket to talk about in this country,” Taibu said. “We all know that it will die, so that effectively means we won’t be able to field a team in the West Indies.”

The ICC has directly contributed to the death of Zimbabwean cricket.

RIP Cricket in Zimbabwe.