Article: Crik: ECB cuts ties with Zimbabwe after Brown calls for ban


AAP Sports News (Australia)
06-25-2008
Crik: ECB cuts ties with Zimbabwe after Brown calls for ban

By Julian Guyer

LONDON, June 25 AFP - The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced today it
was suspending all ties with Zimbabwe and was cancelling Zimbabwe's tour of England next
year.

"The Government has written to the ECB today and has made a clear instruction that
Zimbabwe's bilateral tour scheduled under the ICC Future Tours Programme for 2009 should
be cancelled," the board said in a statement.

"ECB are now in detailed discussions to identify a replacement country to tour in the
early part of the summer of 2009."

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