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Zimbabwe Pulls Out of Twenty20 Cricket Tournament

Zimbabwe has pulled out of next year's World Twenty20 cricket tournament in England. The decision, announced after an International Cricket Council board meeting in Dubai, ends a deadlock over demands that the African nation be suspended because of its political crisis. From VOA's London News center, Tendai Maphosa has more.

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Zimbabwe Cricket simply could not survive the final word of condemnation. Nelson Mandela's recent criticism of the country left their cricket board alone as even their staunchest allies turned against them here. Their decision to withdraw from next year's World Twenty20 Championship in England has protected that tournament and saved cricket from a schism that could have been the end for an International Cricket Council struggling for credibility.

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CRICKET: Zimbabwe withdraws from World Twenty20

Seeking assurances from the International Cricket Council in Dubai, Zimbabwe Cricket officials ended any lingering uncertainty by ratifying the compromise agreed last month to pull out of the tournament in return for retaining full ICC status and participation fees.

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Zimbabwe will not take part in the World Twenty20 in England next year after agreeing to voluntarily pull out of the tournament.

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Zimbabwe out of world Twenty20

Scotland will join the elite tournament instead, after the International Cricket Council and Zimbabwe Cricket on Wednesday ratified a decision initially agreed at the world governing body's annual conference in Dubai two months ago.

Zimbabwe to sit out World Twenty20

The International Cricket Council have confirmed Zimbabwe are set to pull out of the World Twenty20 in England next year.

Zimbabwe pull out of World Twenty20

Scotland will compete in the elite tournament instead, after the International Cricket Council and Zimbabwe Cricket today ratified a decision initially agreed at the world governing body’s annual conference in Dubai two months ago.

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Vote matters more, so let cricket die

An unholy compromise has been reached at the apex meeting of cricket's top administrators. Zimbabwe have pulled out of next year's Twenty20 World Cup in England in what their cricket board chief Peter Chingoka calls "the larger interests of the game". In reality, it is a move to safeguard the England and Wales Cricket Board's (ECB) commercial interests which would have suffered an estimated blow of $20 million had the event been shifted out of England.

Zimbabwe withdraws from World Twenty20

Seeking assurances from the International Cricket Council in Dubai, Zimbabwe Cricket officials ended any lingering uncertainty by ratifying the compromise agreed last month to pull out of the tournament in return for retaining full ICC status and participation fees.

Zimbabwe withdraws from World Twenty20

Seeking assurances from the International Cricket Council in Dubai, Zimbabwe Cricket officials ended any lingering uncertainty by ratifying the compromise agreed last month to pull out of the tournament in return for retaining full ICC status and participation fees.

Zimbabwe withdraws from World Twenty20

Seeking assurances from the International Cricket Council in Dubai, Zimbabwe Cricket officials ended any lingering uncertainty by ratifying the compromise agreed last month to pull out of the tournament in return for retaining full ICC status and participation fees.

Zimbabwe to skip World Twenty20 in England - report

NEW DELHI, July 4 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe have agreed to skip next year's World Twenty20 in England to end a stalemate with the International Cricket Council (ICC), Zimbabwe Cricket chairman Peter Chingoka told cricinfo Web site on Friday.

ZC meets over Twenty20 tournament

THE Zimbabwe Cricket Board has met to consider the recommendation by its delegation to the International Cricket Council (ICC) Annual Conference that the Zimbabwean team should withdraw from the ICC World Twenty20 tournament in England next year.

Zimbabwe cricket chief hits out

Zimbabwe's cricket authority reacted angrily yesterday to the threat of expulsion by the International Cricket Council, asking why no other sports' governing bodies have threatened similar action.

On cricket alone, Zimbabwe is in disgrace

So let us talk not politics but cricket. After all, that is what Peter Chingoka and Ozias Bvute want, is it not? Those twin pillars of the crumbled edifice called Zimbabwe Cricket, who have presided over a most disgraceful decline while all the while enjoying the benefits that full-member status of the ICC brings, called upon the international cricket community this week to consider only cricketing matters when Zimbabwe's position at the high table is discussed. We shall grant them their wish.

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