Zimbabwe - Its Just Not Cricket

The Australian Cricket team should not go to Zimbabwe.  Full stop.  No more correspondence on the subject need be entertained.

It seems as though everyone is making the right machinations to coming to this realisation, but seriously its cricket... not World Aid or anything remotely charitable.  Its just cricket.

Can the tour, can Zimbabwe's status as an ICC nation and get on with it... We did the same to South Africa in the late 60's / early 70's and it took 20 years, but change came.

But all this pussy footing around about upsetting the ICC and as Channel 7 news reported it this morning "upsetting the Asian members of the ICC" (which is Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh) is a crock of shit.  I dont know why it is, but the ICC is a schism of 2 groups and we seem to be split on Asia / Non Asia (but isnt Australia in soccer terms now Asian?)... seems odd, but lets just let common sense rule and we wont go.

Again, Australia is getting shown up again by New Zealand when they previously pulled out of the tour and showed better guts than we seem to do...

And what will the ICC do if we dont go and dont pay some preposterous US$2.5M fine?  Kick us out?  Yeah, not likely.  The Australian Cricket Board should tell the ICC to go shove it... send a "World XI" if they want, but no Aussie needs to go.